title safe overlays not showing up

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title safe overlays not showing up

For some reason my title/action safe overlays are not showing up over my video. It's strange though, because if the time code overlays are on as well, you can see the outline of the title/action safe lines in the time code box. It just doesn't show up over the video. Hopefully I'm explaining this sufficiently.

Anybody else ever run into this problem?

PowerMac Dual G5, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 4, 2008 10:12 AM

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Outlaw26

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Jun 4, 2008 10:54 AM in response to jmcrowe

You have to also select show overlays in addition to which one you want. I can't remember the short cut off the top of my head but it's under the same drop down menu

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D Gilmore

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Jun 4, 2008 11:05 AM in response to Outlaw26

I can't remember the short cut off the top of my head

Control-option-W

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jmcrowe Author

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Jun 4, 2008 11:25 AM in response to jmcrowe

Thanks for the help guys, but I don't think I explained it clearly. I've posted a link to a screenshot below:

http://www.birdlandpictures.com/images/screenshot.jpg

The title safe overlays are turned on in the frame on the left and turned off in the frame on the right. As you can see, the aqua colored lines are visible in the 1st frame, but only within the overlays for In, Out, Video and Audio. I've never seen this before as they usually cover the entire frame.

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D Gilmore

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Jun 4, 2008 12:15 PM in response to jmcrowe

Odd behavior. Try trashing preferences and repairing permissions.

Close Final Cut Pro.

Go to: Users/your user name/Library/Preferences.

Drag, "com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist" to the trash.

Scroll down to the Final Cut Pro User Settings folder.

Drag, "Final Cut Pro 6 Preferences" to the trash.

Drag, "Final Cut Pro Obj Cache" to the trash

Drag, "Final Cut Pro POA Cache" to the trash.

Go to: Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

Select your system disk

Click on the Repair Permissions button

Restart your computer

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