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  • Suddenly my viewer and monitor have turned green

    Posted by Nicholas Maude on October 23, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    Please help.

    I’m editing on Final Cut Pro 7. Suddenly today when I opened it up, both video screens (the viewer and the canvas) are green. No video image plays although I can hear it.

    I’m at a complete loss. The only thing I did today was update I-Tunes. This may be wrong as I had to update a few things to plug in a new IPhone 5s. Darn Apple.

    If anyone has any ideas, please help.

    Seyi Adebanjo replied 12 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Rafael Amador

    October 24, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    [Nicholas Maude] “This may be wrong as I had to update a few things to plug in a new IPhone 5s.”
    Are you editing any unsupported format (AVCHD/H264/Mp4)?
    If so, convert the stuff to Prores.
    rafael

  • Nicholas Maude

    October 24, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Hi. No, I was half way through an existing HDV edit. I assume by downloading a new version of the operating system that it knocked out a codec. I even tried opening final cut express and the monitor was also gone on that programme. In the end I decided to reinstall Final Cut Pro and now everything is working normally. Thank goodness.

  • Mike Kahn

    October 24, 2013 at 7:25 pm

    Try to delete your render queue and thumbnail cache. Sometimes they can get corrupted and show green screens.

  • Seyi Adebanjo

    November 23, 2013 at 7:54 am

    thanks for that info mike, my viewer turned green and that fixed the issue

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