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Timeline playback gives me no video in application canvas or viewer
I was editing a miniDV sequence (PAL). Everything was ok. Suddenly, when I pressed th espace bar, the playhead moves, but the cancas only shows me the last frame I was stopped on and never updates. I try rendering the clip, no change. I switch to safe RT, quit FCP HD 4.5, restart my PowerMac G4. Now I see a black canvas and even if I play all I get is the audio.
If I double click on a clip it opens in the viewer, but if I press play the playhead moves while the displays remains stuck at the first frame. I find it strange that in a DV PAL dequence at 720X576 with DV PAL clips and no filters or transitions, I see green lines throughout that would indicate that I need to render the footage. I feel this may be connected to my problem in some way.
I trashed fcp ‘s plist file, removed all 3rd party plug ins, but it didn’t change anything.
This is bad timing, I’m editing a contract and I’m half way done!
PowerMac G4 933MHz, 768mb of ram.
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SOLVED-I deleted User/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro Uder Data folder.
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One oversight that can cause this is by accidentally setting your Viewer/Canvas to Wireframe mode.
I can’t tell you how many times I accidentally hit the keyboard shortcut for Wireframe mode (“w”, I believe), and spent the next 15 minutes trying to figure out where my video playback went.
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that this is what happened to you. Killing your user prefs just reset all the FCP settings to thier defaults, which may have appeared to solved the problem, but my guess is that you probably didnt need to trash the prefs.
Aloha,
mel
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