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When Using Slip/Roll Tool– Red Screens Instead of Video?
Whenever I use the Slip or Roll Tool on this particular FCP system, the two little dual screens that normally appear in the Canvas window showing me the in and out frames of the clip that I’m working with are now completely red. I do not see any video in either screen, although I can slip or slide (albeit blindly). And no, this is not Channels issue where RGB+Alpha is turned on– this only appears when trying to use the Slip Tool or the Roll Tool: I only see two red screens instead of video in the screens like I normally should.
Also, I cannot see the Show Title Safe overlay. I can see Timecode Overlay and Image+ Wireframe overlay but not Title Safe. I wonder if the two are related? (Red Frames in Slip/Roll Tool and invisible Title Safe overlays) I see this issue in whatever project I open. It is not confined to one project. I have dumped the Prefs (com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist) which does not remedy.
I’m wondering if its a display issue even though I didn’t have this problem until recently.
I do have a dual screen monitor arrangement in this edit suite even though I’m not using it when cutting DV. For the main edit monitor, I have a Apple Cinema 30″ screen with a Apple 23″ as the second monitor. This is used by our Matrox MXO for HDV work but it is not being used (I can turn off the second monitor and MXO and still get the two red screen issue) I’ve also confirmed my Canvas screen is not “leaking” into my second monitor too.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Specs: Intel G5 Duel Core 2.66 GHz, 6 gigs RAM,
Display: ATI Radeon X1900 XT, Resolution: 2560 x 1600 VRAM: 512 MB Depth: 16 bit Core Image: Hardware Accelerated.
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 (Issue has been around since FCP 6.0 Recently updated to 6.0.4) -
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I know this is an old post but I just started experiencing this problem too and wondered if it was ever resolved?
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I no longer have the issue. However, I think I tracked it down to the Matrox MXO– I’m thinking the device had to be up and running before I fired up Final Cut. (We have our MXO and secondary monitor on a separate power switch as there are times when we aren’t editing on the machine so we don’t need two monitors going.)
If I didn’t have the MXO already on, the red boxes occurred. And if I fired up the MXO after I had seen the problem, it didn’t care, I still got the red boxes.
Do you have an MXO in your mix? Maybe try that and see.
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Al,
Thanks for the response. I found the answer on the LAFCPUG. Somehow the preferences for Apple Cinema display I use for my main display got changed from millions of colors to thousands. Once returned to millions of colors, the red screens are gone. I do not use MXO, but I think it is a dual display issue, both displays needing to have their colors set the same – no matter which display the Canvas window is shown on. I might never have ever figured that one out on my own.
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