• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Setting up an external monitor

  Posted by Chuck Purnell on July 6, 2010 at 3:13 pm

  Up until now I have been able to use my SD external monitor while editing. I recently got a 20″ HDTV with an array of jacks including HDMI and a jack to use it as a computer monitor. I notice that once I set my VIEW option to ALL FRAMES in FCP, it will only show me a frame at a time until I stop the playhead then the shot will pop up wherever I stopped the playhead. Not sure why its doing this.

  The set up:

  I have a Caldigit 4TB Raid that i use for editing. I have a FW800 going from that to my G5 Powermac. I also have a FW400 coming out of the Caldigit to my Sony GVD-1000 MiniDV deck (only using this as a “pass through”). I have S-Video/RCA audio coming out of the Sony to the jacks on the 20″ HDTV.

  Now I was getting a picture but it was showing me a frame at a time. Now it won’t show me anything at all not even on the Sony GVD1000 deck. ALL FRAMES is still set in FCP. I am not sure why I cannot see my work in real time on the other monitor or see it period for that matter.

  Device Control is set to FW basic which turns my screen black. However when I select another option other than FW Basic, it turns my screen blue so that right there tells me that the computer is talking to the monitor.

  As for Graphics card, I am using the ATI Radeon 9600.

  I do NOT have a AJA or Matrox breakout box and Im thinking I probably will need that. Perhaps my problem could be everything is digital till the signal gets to the Sony deck, i am coming out that deck with analog signals to the monitor.

  Any suggestions? Should I run monitor #2 out of the back of my tower in a dual screen set up? I do have a DVI to HDMI cable that I could use. Actually I did try this last night and nothing happened with monitor #2. The main monitor changed to a blue screen then came back to my desktop screen but it was clean, no icons at all visible. I ended up unhooking the cable and rebooting my computer to get all my desktop icons to return. I did not have my display set to dual or mirror in my system preferences which could have been an issue too.

  Before I bought the HDTV, I had a regular SD monitor and never had any issues with seeing my work on it while I edited.

  I am working with footage shot in 720p and I am using the correct HD codec to edit with so I am not sure why I cannot view my work on my external monitor or see it playback in real time.

  Thanks!

  Chuck Purnell replied 16 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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