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video display goes black during playback
I’m having an issue with my video display on playback of clips and sequences. I can load a clip or put a clip on the timeline and while paused or scrolling through the clip I can see the video and hear the audio. However, when I press play in either source the display goes to black but I can still hear the audio. I’ve tried capturing DV via firewire at DV 25 as well as composite at 2:1…same thing. It seems like a setting thing, I just can’t figure out which setting to tweak.
The machine is an MC Adrenaline (ver. 1.6 I believe) and it’s an XP system. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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6 Replies
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What video card do you have, and what driver is installed for that card?
Michael.
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I have the Quadro FX 1400 with driver version 67.22 and I was wrong–just got to the office and our version of the MC software is 2.16
We’re trying to get the government to upgrade our service agreements so we can upgrade to 2.5 or whatever the latest version is, but nothing happens quickly with the government or the Army…at least when it comes to spending money. 🙂
Anyway, those are my specs. I just downloaded the Nvidia quadro Avid certified driver update- (70.18) and I’m going to try that out. Your thoughts? Thanks much!
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I think the new driver should help. Avid is very picky about what drivers you use, and having a black screen on playback is usually indicative of running an uncertified card or the wrong driver–let us know if this solves it.
Good luck on getting the service agreement too!
Michael.
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Did you check to see if you have another window open that is touching the record or source monitor?
Chaz S.
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Yeah, tried that, no dice. I also tried moving the sorce/ record monitors to my other computer monitor to see if that helped… nothing. I also recently updated the Nvidia display drivers from 67.22 to 70.78 (unistalling the old ones first) and got the blue screen of death. Tried to boot in safe mode and lost know good boot, to do system restore or uninstall the drivers and try another version, but now it won’t boot at all. So it looks like we may have to do a full reinstall of windows, Avid, etc. Luckily I was just starting out with a project so I’m not going to lose much. What a hassle.
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OK, we got past the blue screen of death- uninstalled the Nvidia 70.78 avid certified drivers for MCA, loaded the latest verson (90.xx?) and it fixed the problem…at least so far it seems as though it did. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for the input Mike, a driver display issue didn’t even occur to me. as always, thanks for the help here guys! That’s why I love this site and various forums.
~T
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