White screen and some freaky screen too!

[Casey Baugess]

UPDATE: The problem is somewhere in my preferences, although I’ve deleted them several times. I logged in as a “test” user and the problem was gone. I’ve deleted the preferences in user/library/preferences/finalcutpro … is there another place?

[Casey Baugess]

Since “freaky” isn’t a technical term, here’s a link:

https://www.gcadstransfer.com/temp.png

[Tom Wolsky]

What’s the media, and what are the sequence settings?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Casey Baugess]

Thanks, I’ve tried almost any file type. ProRes HD, DV Pro, H264, etc. Nothing works. I’ve tried many types of sequence settings too. All kinds of combinations. It seems to be somewhere in the preferences as the “test” user works fine. Am I missing a preference somewhere?

[Tom Wolsky]

It would be better if you could actually tell us what the media in sequence is and what the sequence settings are so we know what the computer is having to do to play it back. What’s the computer? How much RAM is there? What’s the graphics card? Also what resolution and color settings to you have set for the display system preferences?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Casey Baugess]

Eureka! I was writing down all the specs you asked for and I thought it could be something to do with the computer settings and not FCP. I went to check the color settings in User Preferences and then went back to FCP and voila! It’s working. I guess I something in there got reset. Not sure exactly what, but it’s working great now. Thanks for the help, you sparked an idea and it worked!

[Bj Ahlen]

There’s an OS X bug that makes it lose its display settings, FCP is not involved at all.

This happened to me too, so I just reselected the display profile and all was good again.

[Nathan Prince]

Thanks B.J. Ahlen, you are right!

I went to System prefs in Finder, Displays, Display Prefs and *ping* all is okay again. Phew.

Thanks again

Nathan

[Tolu Oluwadiya]

OMG….Can I just say THANK YOU!!! I have had this problem for a while and kept working on my laptop instead of my iMac and finally updated my iMac with FCP 3, but was still getting the same problem. I came across your problem and how you solved it and it totally worked for me too. I changed my color setting to NTSC, but it looked like any other one aside from what was defaultly there before worked! THANKS SO MUCH AGAIN!!!

[Casey Baugess]

Great! So glad it worked for you too. It was driving me nuts too. 🙂 Have a great weekend.