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Second monitor not so much…
For some reason when I tossed the files that often become corrupt in FCP v6.0.6, I now cannot get my second monitor to show the canvas’s video full-screen. Rather it simply acts as an extension of the desktop- as a dual- monitor for bins, etc which isnt what I want. In FCP,I went to “Audio Video Settings” to the “A/V Devices” tab and tried all of the four playback output options. No luck; the second monitor shows no video. What am I missing?
Darren
2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16gigs RAM
FCP v 6.0.6Geek/Nerd/Odd Duck
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Have you gone to View > Video Playback and select the correct monitor.
If so, Command + F12 turns that function on and off so that you can toggle between having a large workspace and fullscreen video playback.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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[Darren Peister] “when I tossed the files that often become corrupt in FCP v6.0.6, I”
If you are having frequent files corruption, I would be more concern with that than with my monitoring.
Rafael -
Rob: TAH DAH! Thanks; I also had to go back to the AV Settings/ AV Devices tab and turn on “Mirror on Desktop”. Much appreciated. And to Rafael; no I have not been crashing much at all (the entire system is about 3 months old!) but I had accidentally formatted my hard drives as Mac Extended Journaled which I believe was responsible for dropped frames/freezing during playback of my timeline. I figured a reformat and a trashing would be wise to do in tandem. Thanks again.
Geek/Nerd/Odd Duck
MacbookPro15″ 4gigsRAM -
Hi Darren,
You can disable “Journaled” without re-format the HD:https://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php
rafael
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I had accidentally formatted my hard drives as Mac Extended Journaled which I believe was responsible for dropped frames/freezing during playback of my timeline
Extremely unlikely. The impact of journaling on a video media drive is wildly overstated. Whatever it was that was causing dropped frames and freezing, I’ll bet journaling was not it.
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Your bet was correct. I’m having serious problems playing a sequence of HDV material. My system is new and rather robust so I’m scratching my head why this would be happening. Any thoughts?
Geek/Nerd
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No worries Darren, if you can have a stab at describing the specific issues you are seeing then I expect we can come up with something to get it running smoothly again. Try to give as much detail of your settings as possible, when and where you see the issue, when and where you don’t etc.
Best
Andy -
Im editing on a Mac Pro: os 10.5.8 2x 2.26 GHz quad-core intel xeon computer; 16g RAM. 3 internal 1tb drives were striped as a single raid 0 drive using disk utility as mac OS extended; i reformatted them just before beginning this job. HDV files were provided to me from a client who has fcp express; Im running FCP v6.0.6. I just ran Aja’s system test on my drives. The read/write of a 1gb file with a video frame size of DVCProHD 1080i/60 was 266mb/sec. Not shabby! YET: as I play down my timeline of HDV material it stops and gives me the warning box. This morning it played fine; this evening it wont play more than a couple of seconds without stopping. It is a fairly simple timeline; the project is 11megs. All effects were rendered to the raid and yet it wont play. None of the effects came up as red; but even bright green effects wont play. It simply stops and gives me the error. I dumbed down the playback to safe/med playback/half rate on the frames and that helps it play- but it’s absolutely absurd for a such a robust editing system. I should be able to switch multiple cameras in HD with this thing! What is going on?? Any suggestions?
Geek/Nerd
Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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[Darren Peister] “HDV files were provided to me from a client who has fcp express;”
I’m not absolutely certain of this, as I neither have nor use Final Cut Express (FCE), but I think when capturing HDV with FCE is always transcodes on capture to Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC). If that is the case, and if you are working in an HDV timeline in FCP, then your system may be struggling with the realtime transcode for AIC (source) to HDV (sequence) settings for playback.
Just to be sure of the formats details, can you select one of these problem clips and press Cmd-9 (thats the shortcut for Edit menu > Item Properties > Format) then list for us all the info displayed. Also, select your sequence and press Cmd-zero (thats the shortcut for Sequence menu >Settings) and again, list for us all the info displayed.
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Below are screen grabs of the information requested. It seems that HDV is not some foreign H264-type of format to the software. Yet it’s choking on this HDV media like crazy! Help!
Geek/Nerd
Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16 GB RAM, 3Gig internal Raid
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