[Del Frost]

Well, I’m making some kind of progress but I’ve only managed to get as far as a black & white picture on the TV that isn’t moving while the video is playing.

I did that by changing my output settings to NTSC instead of PAL.

So, the camcorder tapes that I captured were all PAL. I’ve been working in PAL all the way through but if I try & output to my TV in PAL all I get is a picture made of small black & white blocks.

As soon as I change it to NTSC I get a full black & white picture that doesn’t move but just updates to the latest frame when I pause playback.

To make matters worse, my TV (a Philips set approximately 10 years old – model number 28pw6332/05) appears to be SECAM but the manual is not big on technical data so I can really get much further.

Bottom line is it doesn’t work. I give up. I’ve wasted my whole weekend on this & I’m thinking “stuff it, I’ll buy a proper monitor on Monday & create a permanent set-up I can rely on instead of all this time wasting.”

[Del Frost]

By way of an update, I just figured out that my camcorder’s firewire is “out” only & is therefore incapable of sending a signal on to the TV.

So my next option is to see if I can get my Dazzle Hollywood AV converter to do the trick. I’m pretty sure it should on paper but when I tried it earlier, I wasn’t being very methodical so I think I ought to try again.

[Del Frost]

But that’s the same post that you put at the beginning of the thread.

As I said, I tried all that, very carefully, & I’m wondering if there’s anything else I can try or not?

[Del Frost]

Okay, perhaps you could help me out here because I’m completely stumped.

I’ve carefully tried all the things in this thread with no success.

I have a little Canon MV200 MiniDV camcorder in one firewire socket & the external hard drive in the other so no daisy-chaining.

I’m sending to Apple Firewire PAL, as that’s the format that’s been used here in the UK to film it.

I tried it as you explained it & I’ve tried a whole other bunch of options too but I’m getting nothing on my TV screen.

I’ve tried going out through my Dazzle Hollywood DA converter, I’ve tried S-video, I’ve tried the Red White & Yellow plugs into the TV directly and into the aux inputs on my amp.

I’m at my wits end. What am I doing wrong?

[Del Frost]

Thanks.

The FCP, OS & QT versions are the same on both computers.

[Del Frost]

Sorry, that was the laptop’s “documents” folder & therefore separate to the external hard drive.

[Del Frost]

I think one of the problems for me is that I don’t know where to look for all of the things you mention.

Yesterday I copied the entire “Final Cut Pro Documents” folder from the laptop to the main computer with no success.

Both computers have the same external hard drive set as their scratch disk.

Where else could things be?

[Del Frost]

I still can’t figure this out.

I went home last night, connected the external hard drive to my laptop, fired up FCP & all was well. No red sequences etc.

Did a bit of work, saved the file.

Got in this morning, connected the external drive to my main computer, fired it up & all the sequences that I waited 4 hours to have rendered yesterday are showing as red again!!!!

And while I’m on the subject, why is only one video track showing as red? Why is the other one okay? I mean, no footage is showing as offline & if the links are bad somewhere else, they’d be bad for everything, wouldn’t they?

What the heck is going on? I just can’t figure it.

[Del Frost]

Thanks for the reply.

Do you mean the stuff in the “User preferences…” (alt-Q) menu under the tabs: “Render Control” & “Timeline Options” & the corresponding tabs in the “Settings…” (command-0) menu or should I be looking somewhere else?

[Del Frost]

Weird that switching something on in one app. affects something in a different app.

I can imagine that if part of AE is built around QT then that makes a kind of sense. Still, I’d never have thought of it so thanks.