FCP7: White Viewer and White Canvas (set …

FCP7: White Viewer and White Canvas (set to RGB)

Hello,
I had been using the universal version of the first Final Cut Studio for a few years now without any issue. When I upgraded to FCS3, I can't get FCP7 to show any footage (or even Color Bars) in the Viewer or Canvas. You hear the audio of the footage but it's all WHITE. Both frames are set to RGB (not alpha).
I have fully re-installed FCP7 but I still see the same results. It doesn't seem to matter what easy setup I use either.

I can take the same DV or HDV footage and play it in Quicktime outside of FCP7 so I'm confident that my onboard graphics card is not having some sort of trouble.

I have a case open with AppleCare but so far they have not resolved this issue.

Is this White Viewer and Canvas issue happening to anyone else here?

Thanks.

Message was edited by: Udder

24 inch White iMac 2.33, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 31, 2009 9:47 AM

Oct 11, 2009 11:04 AM in response to Udder

I had a similar problem. Did not do a new user or reinstall, but did trash preference and was same thing. I solved it by sending all the files to Compressor and export them back out as the same format. My original files became fine after this. Didn't even have to use the newly exported files.

I think this has to do with both Snow Leopard and FCP 7. I was told not to buy any new generation of Apple products until an update comes out. They always have problems. I think FCP 6 had problems until 6.0.4. Snow Leopard and FCP 7 are bound to have problems until at least 2-3 updates come out and that should fix it. By then they'll probably have a new version of Mac OSX and FCP that will create other problems.

Don't upgrade unless you desperately have to. If you're still running PowerPC like me and want to update to Intel then do it, but other than that I would advice not to do any upgrades. I only had to do this because the RED and AVC HD requires Intel.

Hope this helps,

Kak