All Black Imbedded Video Playback Option Gone?

i used to be able to watch video in three sizes, and the small & medium sizes were surrounded by all black...now i've only two sizes and i can't watch the small size surrounded by all black (only the large, full-screen size, which i most often don't want to do)...all the screen lighting's annoying...help

Two things to keep in mind
There is a forum for Lion, another for MBP owners, and this is not.
And yes you will find lots and lots of threads of same.... no one looks at those that were "Solved"
http://www.apple.com/support/lion

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Video Playback Option in "Preferences/Audio-Video Out"

The following did not make it into the User Guide, though it did get into the troubleshooting docs:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332121.html
332121 Video Playback option in Audio/Video Out preferences (Encore DVD)
A new option was added to the Preferences menu of version 2.0 of Adobe Encore DVD. When you select Edit > Preferences > Audio/Video Out, you see an Automatic option in the Video Playback section. This option is selected by default, allowing Encore DVD 2.0 to play video in a Standard Direct3D mode. If the feature is not selected, then video playback will be in GDI mode.
The only reason to deselect this option is in the case of poor preview playback or black video. In order for the change in preference to take effect, you must close the Monitor panel and then reopen it.
Background information
Encore DVD 2.0 (unlike previous versions of Encore DVD) uses the Premiere Pro playback engine for video playback. Premiere Pro has three Desktop Display modes: Compatible, Standard, and Accelerated GPU Effects. In Compatible mode, video is played using the GDI. In Standard mode, video is played using Direct 3D. In Accelerated mode, video is played using Direct 3D with GPU.
The default setting for Encore DVD 2.0 is comparable to Premiere Pro's Standard mode (Direct 3D). When the Automatic option is deselected, it is comparable to Premiere Pro's Compatible mode (GDI).
If Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 detects a Direct 3D error when previewing in Standard mode, it switches to Compatible mode. Encore DVD 2.0 does not have this capability, nor does it provide the same option in the User Interface for the user to switch between the three display modes. This is why the Automatic option was included in the Audio/Video Out preferences.

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
Sounds like you've been shooting at p ("progressive") frame rate (..24p or similar).
iMovie can't handle that (..except for JVC's 720p footage..) and it thinks that each frame is a "field" (..half a frame). It therefore plays those frames at double speed, thinking that there should be two 'fields' to a single frame.
Did you shoot at a "p" frame-rate..? If so, you'll need to convert the material, with some other program, so that iMovie can handle it.
I can't remember offhand what software might do this, but if you were shooting in HDV hi-def (which is recorded in the camera using the MPEG-2 video system) you may be able to use MPEG Streamclip (click on that blue link) to "unscramble" your material.

Program Monitor is Black, no video playback after installing new graphics card

I bought a PNY Nvidia Quadro 2000 graphics card a few days ago, and since it's been installed, I've been unable to watch video playback in my program, source or even reference monitor.
Similarly, If I designate one of my monitors soley for video playback, the screen is just black, and as the timecode advances on my timeline I only hear sound.
My project is using "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration" for Premiere Pro CS6.0.1
I went from using one graphics card to using two graphics cards, and installed a third monitor. I've spent the last few days trying everything I could think of, I even uninstalled and re-installed premiere.
Hardware Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
HP Pavilion h8-1230z
AMD-FX8150 3.59Ghz 8 core processesor
16GB RAM
600W PS
EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti
PNY Nvidia Quadro 2000
I am using a PCI x16 for the Quadro 2000
I am using a PCI x1 slot w/x1-x16 adapter for the 550Ti
Could this be the problem?
Additional Information
Vectorscope, All scopes, YC Waveform - Display modes all work.
I downloaded the most recent Nvidia drivers for both of my cards.
I haven't received any error messages or had any problems in After Effects CS6, as video playback is working properly in my other adobe applications.

I am still building a new system, so currently I'm still using a 480. You can read all about my choices and progress here: Adobe Forums: Planning / building a new system. Part 1
There are 11 entries in the Benchmark Results that succesfully use the GTX 680, even though it is not 'supported'. They all use the 'hack'. However, the 680 has been added to the list of supported cards for AE, so it is only a matter of time before the 680 will be added to the list of supported cards for PR. Todd had made that clear. Now, when the 680 is added, it makes sense that the 670 will also be added. My guess is that both will be added in a short while.

Why am I having imbedded video playback problems in Lion?

Hello all,
I'm been having problems viewing web videos on my 2011 MBPro 13'' w/ OS X Lion. Any time of web video I have normal sound by the video frames get all jumpy, almost like its less than 1fps. The only web videos that do not have this problem is when I watch a youtube video on youtube.com. If I watch imbedded youtube videos, I have the same skittish video playback problem.
I have my adobe flash updated and I used Google Chrome as my web browser.
Anyone else have a similar problem? Fixes? Thanks!
-Sean

Two things to keep in mind
There is a forum for Lion, another for MBP owners, and this is not.
And yes you will find lots and lots of threads of same.... no one looks at those that were "Solved"
http://www.apple.com/support/lion

HT5097 I recently upgraded my macbook to Mountain lion. Before doing so I used time machine and an external hard drive to back up my entire laptop. When we upgraded my computer came back like new. All pics, music, videos documents etc gone. How do I ge

I recently upgraded my macbook to mountain lion. Before doing so I used time machine to back up my entire laptop with an external hard drive.
When I got my computer back it was clean....all pics, music, documents, bookmarks etc. are gone. How do I get these files off the external hard drive and back onto my laptop with the new upgrade?

I recently upgraded my macbook to mountain lion. Before doing so I used time machine to back up my entire laptop with an external hard drive.
When I got my computer back it was clean....all pics, music, documents, bookmarks etc. are gone. How do I get these files off the external hard drive and back onto my laptop with the new upgrade?

Aliasing on Red and Blue color in ALL Flash Player video playback (including YouTube)

We have noticed that Flash Player does not smoothly decode the colors red or blue in video files (such as YouTube/Vimeo/similar), resulting in nasty aliasing on text/edges of solid colour. The problem occurs on both Mac and Windows platforms, tested with Flash Player 11.3 to 11.5 and demonstrated using the video below:
https://vimeo.com/51914568
This video shows the issue clearly (you can switch between Vimeo's HTML5 Player to Flash Player. The red and green text is smoothly displayed in HTML5 Player or VLC/Quicktime Player). Note: watch in SD, not HD:
Only with Flash Player are edges aliased/jagged where they should be smooth. It's as if the resolution is dropped in half during the YUV decode.
I reported this today as Bug 3351502
Here's hoping Adobe can get this sorted as it means the entire content of YouTube (for example) has poor quality video in Flash player.
You can also clearly see this on this cocacola advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2nBBMbjS8w&feature=relmfu
CB

In general, the most expedient way to get your issue in front of an engineer (and to track progress on it) is to file a bug at http://bugbase.adobe.com/
I actually filed a bug on your behalf a while back. It was reviewed by an engineer from the video team, and closed as a duplicate of this bug:
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3324604
It sounds like the problem is specific to H.264 video encoded with 10-bit color. You could re-encode your videos with 8-bit color as a temporary workaround to avoid the problem. If you're seeing the same problem with 8-bit color, please let me know.
The bug is currently open and assigned to an engineer from the video team.

Video playback controls

So.
I have imported an mp4-video (animation) in library an added it on to stage.
With three buttons i want to click through the animation in 3 sequences.
First of all there is a stop action before the video starts playing, so that you can click button 1 to start the video. Then button 2 for the next sequence etc.
In the video playback-options, i have paused the video and added a StopAll-trigger before the label "sekvens2", and the I added a click-function to the button 2 with Play From* calling the label.
Works fine when you click continously through the buttons from 1 to 3, but when I click button 2 from the beginning it wont play the video from that specific place.
What to do? Has it somthing to do with my Playback options? Or?
Thanks in advance

Hi Martin,
Sorry for the delay. So there are a few ways to approach this. Before I begin, let me explain how video (and audio) is treated within Animate:
Video/audio elements are similar to symbols in Animate: they must be explicitly addressed, and they behave as if they have their own "timeline" (duration, really). Unlike symbols, there's no actual timeline for the media element itself, but you can address them in similar ways.
So in your composition, your buttons use code such as sym.play("sekvens1"); - this code is essentially telling Animate's Stage to play from the label "sekvens1", and it will do so. But you're not telling the video element named "Rais_Bionic_Final_12" to play, or where in the video to play from - and so it does not also play.
The simplest way to make this work the way you would like is to add a Play From action to the video element at each of the label times, and enter the time you'd like the video element to play from. If you want to do more coding, you can also do it that way.
I hope this explains it, but if anything is unclear, feel free to ask.
Regards,
Joe

Shortcut for Video Playback

I find myself constantly needed to switch video playback from SD 480i to either a particular version of 720p or 1080i, but can't find a way to map a shortcut.
Anyone have a solution rather than groping my way through the list of (often very similar) video playback options each time?
I've tried mapping it in Apple shortcuts, but although the shortcut faithfully appears listed beside the option in FCP, it fails to actually trigger the option.
Thanks

Hi,
Here is an update. I typed the code myself. I typed:
var vid = sym.$("player");
vid.html('<video width ="390" height="219" controls = "controls" src="santa.mp4" type="video/mp4"</video>');
I then exported in Edge the file to an OAM file and then placed that file into my Muse test site. But the results is not working. Here is the test:
http://designerandpublisher.com/hs_test/our-story.html
The 20-sec MP4 file does not play (it played when I was testing it in Edge). Also on frame 20 I put a "stop" command to stop the timeline, but that doesn't seem to work as it's looping. The MP4 file is in the directly like it should in the above code .
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Timeline Video Playback Glitches after going to login window.

Anyone else had this problem. When I leave the office, I click the login window button to stay logged in but protect my documents.
When I come back and begin to work in the timeline in FCP again, it just repeats a small section repeatedly as the audio still plays correctly. The timeline marker moves right and everything, but the video playback is glitching. I have to save and re-start FCP each time I log back in.
-Josh

I've experienced the same thing. I find that if you enable all frames in video playback (cmd+F12) it fixes itself.

Imovie video playback is all black

Although in the event view I can see all the thumbs of the video, when I actually go to play the video, its all black in the video playback. Anyone have any idea whats going on??? Its only happening for a handfull of events.

I have the same problem. With all the videos in my library. Some videos are from the Canon XH-A1 camera, which is standard HDV. The others are from my Panasonic HS-100.
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I'm using a trial of CS6 and having trouble with imported clips. In the past I have been able to open these clips in CS5.5 and CS6 when on Windows 7. Now I am on Windows 8 and they are all black when I open them in CS6. They do play in windows media player just fine though.
I do game recording and the clips were originally recorded with mjpeg compression. On Windows 7 I encoded them using the default Youtube 1080p preset in CS6.
So far I've tried installing the motion mjpeg codec trial, and it didn't work. Tried installing the full k-lite codec pack, that didn't work.
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i5 2500k @ 4.3GHz
16GB DDR3
2x 670 GTX SLI (althought Premiere is set to only use one GPU)
128GB SSD
3 1TB 7200 RPM Hitachi Deskstar single platter HDDs

Harm Millaard wrote:
Pull out one of the video cards, install the Morgan or Mainconcept MJPEG codec and try again. Also make sure you have the latest nVidia driver, 310.64
This didn't fix anything unfortunately. And now I'm back on Windows 7, fresh install and using the 310.64 drivers I've been using all this time. Still have no video and can only hear the audio when watching in the source or sequence monitor. Clips play perfectly fine in windows media player.

Why Does Mavericks 'Display' Show Two Black Bars During Video Playback?

Hey guys. So I'm at college and I've been watching a bunch of movies on my Macbook.
I own a 24-inch monitor where I play the movies through, as I connect it to my Macbook Pro 2012.
When I was on Mountain Lion and I'd play a movie, the video playback would take up the entire 24-inch display screen perfectly.
But now that I've updated to Mavericks, every movie including YouTube videos are stretched and small with two HUGE black bars on the top and on the bottom. I've tried changing the 'Display' options but it still remains the same and it's bugging me out so much that I may need to go back to Mountain Lion just because of this.
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Most YouTube content requires Flash .. You're using Safari to view YouTube?
If so ...
Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Advanced tab.
Click Delete All under Browsing Data and Settings
Not empty the Safari cache.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Advanced tab.
Select: Show Develop menu in menu bar
Now click Develop from the menu bar. From the drop down menu click Empty Caches.
Quit and relaunch Safari then try a video.

Corrupt video playback in Kodi and black screen when emulating.

Hi!
I have a problem most likely related to each other. When I try to play back videos in Kodi the video just gets scrambled, it fast forwards very fast and looks generally corrupted and when I try to start a game in some emulator (for example mupen64plus) the screen just turns black.
Kodi seems to work really well otherwise, it got sounds in the menus and the menus are smooth when navigating. Same with emulators, the GUI (mupen64plus doesn't have one) works well and I can navigate the menus and everything but as soon as I start a game the screen turns black with no sound.
I tried OpenELEC (which is a distribution that has the main purpose of running Kodi) and the video playback works just fine. Sadly it's not very emulator friendly.
The packages I have installed are: "xf86-video-ati" (dependence: "mesa"), "xorg-server" (dependence: "mesa-libgl") and "xorg-xinit".
And the way that I the programs are usually from .xinitrc (example: exec kodi-standalone) and then xinit.
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All connected through HDMI
Any help would really be appreciated!
Last edited by guran33 (2015-02-12 22:48:05)

If you use windows (havent checked on mac but it might work)
Disable Direct3D acceleration in the player you are using.
If you use VLC media player, Go to preferences, Video, And under output, change from default to "Direct 2D video output"
If you use Quicktime, Downgrade to Quicktime 7.6 or upgrade to quicktime 7.7.3 and Go to
Edit --> Preferences -->Quicktime preferences.
Under that, go to advanced tab, and uncheck "Enable Direct3d acceleration" (3'rd box)
Fixed the problem for me
You're welcome

Photos on Facebook are all black, likewise full screen Youtube videos.

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Try to disable hardware acceleration.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
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Imported video all black?

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The video is black when connecting the camera prior to the actual import, so that should tell you something. The camera shoots in H.264 format, so it is compatible right?

Thanks for that. I think reducing the quality of the camera defeats the object.
I've sorted the problem now and uninstalled it and asked for refund !
I'll stick to Imovie - no problems with that.
Thanks all

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