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timeline will not play unless the firewire is active
Help. The timeline will not play until I connect a camera to the firewire connnection. Without a camera connected when I press the spacebar in the timeline or the play button on the program monitor the play button changes to the stop button like it should be playing but nothing happens. When I connect a camera to the firewire, I can play the timeline. It plays through the camera, but the program monitor still only shows a freeze frame. When I stop playback the program monitor updates to show a freeze frame of the current timeline postion. The monitor will show the video during scrubbing with or without the camera connected.
Premiere Pro CS2, Windows XP Pro
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is this a new problem? have you been working from this fine before? if you have upgraded something recently it may have played with the monitor overlay playback settings. Or check that the playback settings are set to external device none. play with the playback settings and see if that corrects your problem. Finally try to open another project. If it works open an new one. Test it. if it works too, import the project that was having the problem. it should correct itself. If nothing here works, try uninstalling PPro and reinstalling it.
If you are using a dedicated video hardware like Matrox, uninstall that first, then ppro then reinstall ppro 1st, matrox (whatever) 2nd.
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OK, problem solved. It turned out to be some kind of conflict with my M-Audio Firewire 410 box. Since it was working before, I don’t know exactly what the issue was, but this is what I did to fix it. It was a DV issue because any project, new or old with a DV setting did not work. I tried combinations of presets and custom settings with no results. However non-DV projects (Cineform) played fine. Both the camera and 410 were plugged into the motherboard firewire ports. I checked all the audio settings in Preferences and the M-Audio settings were gone. In their place were Cineform ASIO drivers. The M-Audio drivers weren’t even listed. So I uninstalled the M-Audio box, installed a seperate firewire PCI card and put the M-Audio into that, and reinstalled the M-Audio box. It still didn’t work. Next I went back into audio Prefrences. Now the M-Audio drivers were listed. I reset everything for M-Audio and all seems well.
Long story short I think something happened from using the two onboard firewire ports together for playback/capture and audio that corrupted the M-Audio drivers. That was causing my video playback isssue.
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