Final Cut Pro and Leopard (strange behavior) at DVinfo.net

David Ertley · April 10th, 2008, 04:15 PM

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.

Dino Leone · April 10th, 2008, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Ertley

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

Robert Lane · April 10th, 2008, 07:18 PM

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.

Ken Civian · April 10th, 2008, 10:15 PM

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.

Dino Leone · April 11th, 2008, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Ken Civian

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

David Ertley · April 11th, 2008, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Ken Civian

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.

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.

Ken Civian · April 11th, 2008, 10:37 PM

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.

David Ertley · April 11th, 2008, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Ken Civian

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.

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.

April 10th, 2008, 04:15 PM	#1
David Ertley New Boot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Florida US Posts: 7	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.

April 11th, 2008, 10:37 PM	#7
Ken Civian Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Alaska USA Posts: 32	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.

April 10th, 2008, 07:18 PM	#3
Robert Lane Go Go Godzilla Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ USA Posts: 2,788 Images: 15	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.

April 10th, 2008, 10:15 PM	#4
Ken Civian Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Alaska USA Posts: 32	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.