Shannon Brame
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I had a similar problem and upgrading my video card did the trick. I have a G5 Dual 2.5ghz If you have the cash its worth exploring.
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if its not set right you won’t be able to see your video in the monitor.
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If you uncheck view as sq pix you should be able to see it in your monitor. FCP has an issue with those pesky sq pix. As a rule if it looks ok in the Broadcast Monitor, it doesn’t matter what it looks like in the viewer. Remember TV pixles are non square. fit/fill to window is a good setting, I don’t normally pay attention, I just set it to 100% and non square, that way I know I have no distortions.
hope it helps
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Square pixels. its in the scale window of the source/record viewers. You want to view non square. So you are going to uncheck View as Square Pixels
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For me thats generally just how it works. Do you have a broadcast monitor? It should look fine there. The source/record monitors in FCP aren’t the clearest, expecially with AE type and graphics. But you should be fine. Another thing to check is that you rendered Lower Field First. FCP doesn’t like no frames or upper field first.
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you can also switch your easy setup so that it ignores the dv deck but remains in the dv codec. For me its blackmagic dv, it all depends on your card
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I have used flip for mac and it works like a champ. I highly recommend it. Its fairly cheap too
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So you want to crop or scale for Pic in Pic? to crop hit the c key and then you can size the window by eye with your mouse. your arrow will become a crop icon when you move it over the edges of the video.
To scale turn on your wireframe and use your mouse to adjust your size. you can also use the motion tab to set a numerical value for scale and crop if you know what they are.
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I rarely ripple delete but you can do it with the delete key under the help button. More often I use the close gap function which is control g
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Hence my question. I know aeron is best..I want on…but the boss man said no. I need to get out of my present “task chair” it is super uncomfortable and a static nightmare!!!