[Count_diablo]

This footage came from a MiniDV.

I shot the footage with a 3CCD MiniDV camera but have imported it with a 1 chip MiniDV / firewire arrangement direct to my computer.

Off topic for a second… could this affect the resolution or quality of my clips?

Anyway,

I am working on a laptop and the captured footage is kept on external hard drives.

Sometimes, when I play the preview of the project, and if it is connected to ext. monitors etc. the computer suddenly stops, I get a bluescreen with white writing, I figure it crashes sometimes when it is pushed.

I’m giving my system a complete overhaul as I write. storage. defrag. virus check etc.

Yet, I know this problem has more to do with my messing around with a selected clip, I hit a command and now the whole black screen-missing fooatge but hear the sound- that won’t go away.

What commands could I have hit, what can I do to change this?

Is there a way of “cheating” the program and opening a project but then activating the initial work station settings that are preprogrammed?

How can we solve this?

[Count_diablo]

Yes, the eye is visible to the left of the timeline still.

Can you think of anything else that it may be?