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Using an external monitor with varying compressors
I’m a freelance editor working on Final Cut Pro 7. While I was working on my sequence I noticed that I couldn’t get the output video to play on my external monitor. It would show the image of whatever frame I was paused on, but then when I played it the image would stay the same while the sound and sequence bar moved on. When I paused it again the image on the monitor would snap right to the new image I was paused on.
I’m wondering if this has something to do with the fact that not all of the clips in my sequence are set to the same compressor setting. Anyone know if this is true or not? I don’t want to waste a lot of time on something that isn’t causing the problem.
Thank You
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2 Replies
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Your video output setting aren’t matching your timeline, or you are trying to play h264 files from your brand new DSLR “video camera” and don’t feel like reading a manual about how to use FCP properly, or you are trying to make a clip show from various flavors of web movie crap that the client has thrown over the wall to you as editor and wondering why FCP sucks so bad at not playing video of differing formats and frame rates and sample sizes and color spaces and video quality.
Holy shit, this is getting so old and I am officially a crusty old fart.
Sorry, Ryan. Nothing personal.
Jeremy
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Final Cut Pro only works in Real Time with a small number of codecs when they are presented in a specific way – this is known as RT Playback. The easiest way to make sure you are working correctly is to use an Easy Set-Up and match your media to that. Your RT Playback can change depending on your FCP version or installed hardware/software but it tends to be DV, HDV, DVCProHD, XDCAM, ProRes or Uncompressed.
In an ideal world keep all your media the same frame rate, same frame size and the same codec. It just makes editing more pleasant.
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