video is off

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video is off

when I go to watch video I've edited on my monitor, the video is off. In fact it sometimes loops back to an unrelated area. If I hit pause the correct section of video appears on the monitor. This makes it extremely hard to review sections of video I recently edited.

If I quit FCP everything seems to go back to normal. A half hour later it will be off again. I quit and it comes back together. It's extremely annoying.

Dual 2 GHz G5 Running FCP 4 HD
i GB of RAM

75.8 GB of Hard Drive space on my main HD and 182 GB of space still on my second internal HD.
All the footage is imported and stored on my second HD and the FC file itself is saved on my main HD.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening, I would greatly appreciate the help

Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Mar 3, 2007 8:47 AM

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Answer 1

Maxplanar

Level 4

3,095 points

Mar 3, 2007 9:30 AM in response to Kyle Omlor

How did you digitise and log your video when you captured? If you have, for example, digitised from multiple tapes with similar timecodes, and not named the tapes or clips differently, then FCP can become confused - for example, say it goes looking for TC 01:20:15:03 in a clip named Untitled-1 on Tape 1, and there are ten clips that are named and logged that way. If that's the case, try renaming or recapturing your clips.

This can also happen sometimes with rendered material - in which case, try deleting all renders using Tools > Render Manager.

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Answer 2

Kyle Omlor Author

Level 1

115 points

Mar 4, 2007 7:40 AM in response to Maxplanar

Oh that stinks I did exactly what you said. Can I only name clips before I capture them or can I go back in after the fact? I would hate to have to re-import all my tapes.

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Answer 3

Zebulun

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Mar 4, 2007 10:01 AM in response to Kyle Omlor

always always always always always always always always give your tapes unique and discrete names!!! and if you run into instances of the same timecode on your reels, give the clips unique and discrete names when you capture them. man, this can't be stressed enough.

you can rename the source media in the finder level and import that media into the browser and re-edit the piece or there may be a way to enter a reel name in the logging info of the clips that will point the media to the proper source files.

i have no idea if that will work as i've never committed this cardinal sin. very good learning mistake, let us know how you get on and what you did to rectify the situation.

zeb

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Answer 4

Maxplanar

Level 4

3,095 points

Mar 4, 2007 10:44 AM in response to Kyle Omlor

Rename your clips at the finder level and reimport them - that will hopefully be enough. However, the most important reference of all is the tape name. If you still experience problems, you will have to Make Media Offline (leave them on disk), then change the tape name in the browser, then Reconnect to the master clip. You can't change the tape name while the media is connected to the clip.

As Zeb says, at the very least always give each tape you capture from a different name. It's at the beginning of Lesson 1 in Non-Linear Offline 101, with every system on the planet.

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