[Colin Mcquillan]

not just the cable for your new drive,, swap around the others aswell,, as with my case,, it was onle of the cables I already had attached, not the new one for the extra drive I was connecting.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

I had the same problem a while ago, turned out to be a bad firewire cable.
When I would plug in the external, my deck and other external would go offline. after some troubleshooting, traced it back to a short in the DV deck firewire cable.

try swapping out a cable and see if it fixes your trouble. If not,, well,, not sure what the trouble could be.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

Did you try the “w” key? it chages your view setting from image to image+wireframe to Wireframe only… if it’s set to wireframe only,, when you hit play, your canvas and CRT will go black (unless you have composits, then you will see their wireframe outline)

could be this simple,, hit “w” press play. if it doesnt change it, hit “w” again. you can also select this from a canvas drop down menu

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

If you’ve exported a .mov, open it in quicktime, then choose file>export>size choose your dimensions (ntsc 4:3 if you like) then under that check off the “preserve aspect ratio using:” and select crop from the drop down.

I shoot/edit a weekly new release movie review. whenever a film’s EPK is late arriving, I grab the HD trailer from apple.com/trailers and use this method to convert the trailer from HD to SD DV-NTSC for editing. the result looks great! no stutter or frame jumps from frame rate conversion. like it came off the original beta EPK..

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Borjis] “just about everything else is upper field first.”
lower you mean

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

This solved the problem,, I had recently installed a different fx plug pack that must have set the permission of the fx plug folder to read only,, preventing further installs to the folder…

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

Found it,, was in the FAQ just had to look a little deeper

from CHV
“The FxPlug installer tells me that the installation of the plugins failed. What happened ?
FxPlug plugins are installed into a special folder. You can find that folder here:

/Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug/

Unfortunately this folder will not be created along with the installation of Final Cut Studio. This has to be done by the installers of the third party software installers. If such a installer does not do it’s job correctly, let’s say it doesn’t set the permissions of that folder in the right manner, then all following installers have a big problem accessing the FxPlug plugin folder. This is why the installation of new FxPlug plugins can fail.

Take a look into your FxPlug plugin folder. If you can’t find any of the installed plugins then your installation failed. But there is an easy way to “repair” this. Please do this:

– Drag the content of the folder “FxPlug” to your desktop.
– Delete the folder “Plug-Ins”, including the FxPlug folder that’s inside.
– Execute the installer of our CHV FxPlug plugins again. This will create a new “Plug-Ins/FxPlug/” folder with the correct permissions.
– Drag the plugins you have on your desktop back to the new folder.

Now you only have to restart Final Cut Pro or Motion.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

They say compatable with 5.1.2 and up.

perhaps when 5.1.3 came out it buggered it,, and not fixed with 5.1.4??
nothing on there sight though.. i’ll take another look just in case…

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

go into your osX system prefs,, click on Keyboard and Mouse, select the mouse tab, and make sure it says “Vertical and Horizontal” beside Scrolling Options.. sounds like you may only have vertical selected.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

a straw of course,, or when lots needed,, i use one of those beer helmets with coffee mugs instead of beer cans…

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC