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Viewer and canvas have green backgrounds….don’t really mind it but want them to go back to their defaults
Hello all
I’m runnin g fcp5.1.1 on a power mac g5 tower under 10.4.7 (I have a 2ghz machine with 2gb of ram) anyway I have been running this machine for the past three days straight (haven’t turned it off yet) and today finished a log and capture session, the canvas and view had black backgrounds closed fcp and transfered some files reopened fcp and now I have green backgrounds in the canvas and viewer I tried the view menuu and backgrounds submen but no luck
if I have to trash the prefs can someone direct me to one of those rescue programs I have read about that allow you to keep you settings
any other helpful advice is appreciated
take care
Todd George
Instructional Media Services
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH 44118 -
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[todd george] ” I have been running this machine for the past three days straight (haven’t turned it off yet) “
Ummm. Maybe try re-starting that baby.
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Todd,
This happens when your FCP preferences are corrupt. This seems to happen to us when we switch from one easy setup to another with a project open, but can happen at other times, too.
What John is suggesting with the link to FCP Rescue is that you trash your preferences and rebuild them (a bit painful if you’ve got a lot of custom window layouts and the like), then use Rescue to record a ‘clean’ version. The next time your preferences get corrupted, FCP Rescue will replace them with the clean version at the click of the mouse. We use it often.
tjs
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