Lost video preview when upgarding to 6.05

How did you do the upgrades?

Anything less than a clean install (done to a fresh disk without previous material on it) can be problematic.

Have you tried to delete the FCP preferences? Do a search here for FCP Rescue or FCP Attic or FCP Preference Manager. Anyone of them should help you delete the FCP preference files.

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Also, it's also a very good idea to clone your startup drive before doing any upgrade or update. This way you can quickly restore your system to it's working state if things go wrong. Do a search for carboncopy cloner on versiontracker.com

It's next to impossible for apple to check the behavior of updates on every variety of hardware combinations out there. There are established workflows that are important to maintain if you depend on your system to make your livelihood.

That said, You might try deleting your fcp preferences. Try this: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm (thanks StudioX for his post earlier today)

Also, I'm wondering if there might be a compatibility problem with your video card. Check the video card in the system profiler and do some googling and searching here.

And I'm not surprised that you have lost access to a plugin. It's very common that updates cause problems with plugins.

I used to have an avid. At the time, Avid controlled both the hardware and software (you bought a turnkey system) yet updates would often create problems on some avids yet not on others. Often these problems would be traced to a specific run of a hardware card. And avid charged (if I remember correctly) about $3000 dollars a year for just software updates. I'm not denying it would be nice of updates worked flawlessly, but it's never been that way AFAIK on any system (Avid, FCP, Media 100, Apple, Windows...).

But let's try and solve the problem, rather than argue of things that we'll probably never agree about (as satisfying as that may be).

Try creating a new user account and see if that makes any difference. Try experimenting with the number of colors and resolution for the 2nd monitor in the display preferences.

mirror should be off. Mirror means that both displays show the same thing rather than creating an extended desktop.

A couple more things to try: Zapping p-ram. Try powering down, unplugging the computer from the wall outlet, let it sit for 15 minutes and than power up.

Have you tried the other things I suggested yet?

I remember seeing this problem once and solving it (but can't remember what I did).

Zapping p-ram. Restart holding down the command-option - p and r keys until the computer restarts 3 or 4 times.

Have you tried playing with the display preferences yet? It's possible that the update has reset the settings for the second monitor to an incompatible setting.

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PRAM holds basic settings for the Mac. It is not the same as RAM.

Here's a tech support article and info on what all is stored in PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Don't mean this in an insulting way, but it's clear your mac knowledge is very limited. Zapping p-ram is a very basic procedure. I think we should start at the beginning and go over each troubleshooting step to confirm that it is being applied correctly. It is possible that you might need to do a clean install of OS and applications, but I doubt it.

If you're willing, and have skype, I'd be happy to spend some time going over this step by step. Or we can simply continue the thread and review each step.

If you're interested, email me directly. My email is in my profile.

resetting the p-ram is a very innocuous thing to do. It might possibly reset some of your system preferences, but it is a very basic troubleshooting and repair procedure. If you call apple with almost any problem, they'll recommend it. A good way to evaluate the quality of advice you are getting here is by looking at the persons "level" just below their name at the left side of their post. People get higher levels both from the number of their posts AND the quality and usefulness of their posts.