Final Cut Pro and Leopard (strange behavior)
 

ever since upgrading to Leopard I get a choppy image in my viewer and canvis windows. I play a frame and it goes away but it is back if I switch tabs or open another clip.

http://davidertley.com/choppy.jpg

Does anybody else get this? If so, is there a fix?
thanks.

Yes, I get the exact same thing in the viewer. And it started with the upgrade of Leopard. BTW, I did a clean, fresh install on a newly formatted hard drive, immediately updated to 10.5.2 and then installed FCS 2, ran all the updates.

I'm not aware of any fix. It looks like the poster frame, that one single frame that's displayed for a movie, is screwed up.

I used to get annoyed by this, but in the meantime I only smirk, shake my head (at Apple's software engineers)....

BTW, I'm working on a G5 with its old, crappy, slow Radeon 9600.

Best Regards,
Dino

It could very well be that that old card is simply not compatible with the video drivers in Leopard, and in fact that screen grab looks exactly like a driver/refresh rate mismatch issue.

I would check the Apple discussion forums and see if there's a mention of the issue there.

I had that happen before leopard. Trash your preferences and it should go away. There was a thread at apple about this a while ago. Don't know exactly what your search should be, but it's there.

Thanks Ken!
It does work. Scrambling still appeared first time I clicked each clip in the browser, but on 2nd click it goes away. Looks like the old scrambled preview first gets loaded but then it gets replaced by a correct one. Very nice!
Thanks,
Dino

not fixed for me
 

As I mentioned, this happens with fresh installs the first time I run FCP, but I tried trashing the prefs anyway. by trashing the preferences I only need to trash the "Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs" file right? I'm still getting the same thing even after loading the same clips multiple times in the viewer. it seems it may have fixed the problem in the canvas window.

trashing prefs
 

Here you go David:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...fcp_prefs.html
There is more than one pref you need to trash.
I used to use FCP Rescue, but it doesn't work with Leopard yet.

still no
 

I followed all 10 steps, no change.
oh well. the lack of being able to output video to my Z1u is a lager problem, unfortunately I haven't had a single reply to that thread yet.

thanks though.