[Rene Spencer]

Aha! That did it… timeline is “back to normal” and playing nicely with the audio and overlaps.

Many kind thanks. I feel a bit foolish for not discovering this myself however, I won’t ever forget it now.

Again, thank you.

[Rene Spencer]

Never mind… for some reason, it’s now working… after 4 days of not working… Mercury in Retrograde?
Maybe the witch doctor I hired actually was worth the coin.

[Rene Spencer]

Finally – success – but not from the normal suggestions…

Well… I had done everything suggested in these posts without any luck.

Then, providence happened along.

My deck was off for a while and when I launched Avid I got a message about not finding the deck, I knew I wasn’t using the deck for my activity so I clicked the skip this option…

Went into my project and lo and behold — I have green dots, not blue dots. I work on the sequence and it’s like the good old days.

This didn’t make sense to me (FX and deck seem entirely unrelated…

I put the situation to an Avid Certified Trainer I am fortunate enough to know and she immediately seized upon the idea that YES, IT COULD BE THE DECK — all relating to how deck, monitor and computer cables are set up.

She suggested I change the Video Display Setting – to DESELECT OUTPUT TO DV DEVICE.

I followed this incredibly simple step and sure enough, it fixed this agonizing problem. When it’s time to output, I’ll obviously have to change that — and I wonder what will happen at that time? All FX re-rendered I suspect.

I hope that this will assist someone else who may be experiencing the same annoying problem.

[Rene Spencer]

I am curious to know if the initiator of this thread found any of these suggestions fixed the problem. With the upgrade to 3.0.5, I’m having a similar, if not same, problem – not with HD, just plain old SD. That is, any effect applied is a “blue dot, must be rendered” effect.

I am not a technical guru but I know my way around a bit. I’ve researched everything I can and still come up with no results.

I did each and every suggested fix listed here (and also getting rid of pre-computes) and nothing has made a difference.

Even the most basic transition effect is a “blue dot” effect. This issue has sucked up monumental amounts of time on two projects, as you can well imagine.

So, if all of the above suggestions don’t get the lolly, any suggestions on something else that either might be wrong (graphics card/processor issues? I’m open to possibilities) or something right that I am not doing?

Please assist if you can.