Previewing issue

DBoz699

DBoz699

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For the life of me I cannot get my footage to play on an external monitor.

My footage is 1080 and I have it in a 1080 timeline with square pixels and the footage is all Pro Res 422 as is the Sequence.

I want to preview on my CRT monitor. I'm editing on an external drive that's firewire 800 and I'm exporting the video feed through firewire 400 to a mini dv camera then outputting from the camera composite to the television...No i haven't upgraded to a nice HD display just yet.

I get an image to display on my TV and when i scrub through footage its fine but when I want it to play to see the edits, the darn image freezes but the audio plays. All my settings are set to Firewire NTSC 480x720 for preview and the Video Settings is set to All Frames...I even refreshed AV devices but I still get the same problem.

I figured...could be because its from an external? I tried footage that's sitting on my Macbook's drive and it does the same thing. Am I missing something here? This is very frustrating.
 
What frame rate is the timeline? The frame rate of the timeline needs to match the frame rate of your output device (which in this case is 29.97... I'm assuming you are using a NTSC camera).


-Andrew
 
I don't think a MiniDV camera can drive a display at any HD resolution - you're pretty much stuck with 480i and would have to be editing in a DV 480i timeline to preview.
 
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If you're using a miniDV camera, then you can only display a DV timeline. To do what you want, you need a capture card.
 
Darn!!!

Looks like I've gotta bite the bullet and get me Kona card or Black Magic device...


Thank you everyone!
 
arniepix said:
If you're using a miniDV camera, then you can only display a DV timeline. To do what you want, you need a capture card.
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Starting in FCP 6 you could monitor HD out via FW and FCP would do the down-conversion.

From FCP 7 manual:
Connecting Final Cut Pro to an External Video Monitor
For optimal real-time performance, your sequence or clip format should match the format of your output device exactly, including video codec, image dimensions, and frame rate. However, Final Cut Pro can output any video format to any video output device as long as the frame rates of both match (the codec and image dimensions of your clip or sequence do not have to match the format of your output device).

For example, you can preview a 720p30 HDV sequence via an NTSC DV FireWire device connected to an external monitor. The output signal is letterboxed and downconverted to NTSC video. You can also use a third-party interface to view any format supported by Final Cut Pro—as long as the frame rate of your clip or sequence matches the frame rate of your current output device.

Note: Output via HDV FireWire (native MPEG-2) is not supported for any format.
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-A
 
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