Anamorphic playback on a consumer monitor?

I'm cutting a video from a hotel room and will not have access to a professional client monitor. The footage is all 16:9 anamorphic. Is there a way to set the playback from my anamorphic sequence to squeeze the footage into a letter-boxed format on the consumer monitor? My final deliverable will be anamorphic so I would rather not squeeze all the footage in my timeline. I'm getting my playback footage to the monitor via an AJA Io LA. Thanks.

Or just use the FCP canvas. It's rare to need an external monitor for a quick offline edit, which is what I'd imagine you're doing on the road?
PS Are there still 4:3 monitors in use in the USofA? Can't remember the last time I saw one this side of the water (except maybe in grandma's house)
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Trying to view playback on an external monitor

I need help understanding why I can't view my playback correctly.
I've tried what I think is all troubleshooting possibilities.
I am running FW out into an XL2 to a NTSC monitor.
View/External Monitor/All Frames is selected and I have tried an array of different preference settings.
I have tried all things in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1410167&#1410167
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jason
g5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) FCP 4.5

I to am having trouble viewing playback on an external monitor.
I just upgrade from FCP 4 to FCP 5. When I was using FCP 4 I had it set up that all I need was to click on the clip and it would be displayed on the external montior.
In FCP 5 the only setting I can find for external monitor all through firewire.
On my powerbook G4, I want to use the svideo out to an external monitor.
I have gone through at there setting with no luck. Is there any setting that I am missing to get a signal to my external monitor?
What do I need to do to get this fixed?
JEFF

I just purchased Duet 2 and am using it with Garageband 11. I am getting iTunes playbacks through the headphone monitors with Duet 2 but can get no guitar or vocals recorded. I get no volume

I just purchased Apogee Duet 2 and am using it with Garageband 11. I am getting iTunes playbacks through the headphone monitors as per quick startup directions. When I open Garageband I get the same identical stack of guitar and on pedal displayed. I get no sound from the guitar. I believe I have the set up exactly as per diagram and cannot figure things out. I am relatively green at this - my best intentioned purchase now feels like a nightmare!! Help!!

Yes, you can upgrade to Snow Leopard:
Requirements for OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
The OS 10.6 Snow Leopard install DVD is available for $19.99 from the Apple Store:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
and in the UK:
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
but nobody knows for how long it will be available.
When you have installed it, run Software Update to download and install the latest updates for Snow Leopard to bring it up to 10.6.8, or download the combo update from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Check via Software Update whether further updates are required.

What should I trust more? FCP waveform, pro waveform/mon, consumer monitor?

What should I trust more when it comes to preparing a project for DVD (exporting a timeline to Compressor then using DVD Studio Pro)?
My bars look fine on the internal waveform and vectorscope. So does the image. (And everything looked fine when I captured the footage on an external waveform/vectorscope).
When I play a burned DVD, all the levels (blacks and whites) are low on my home 1080p LCD (the DVD is SD, anamorphic).
When I play the DVD on 4 different consumer CRTs and LCDs, the image looks very close to what FCP shows on the computer screen.
At work, when I play the DVD through an SDI framesync, through a Sony 8000 switcher, into a waveform vectorscope, the blacks are -7.5 and the whites are at 105. The chroma is just a tiny bit high.
Why is there such inconsistency between these three? How do you deal with it when you want to make a pro quality DVD?
And, most importantly, which program is making this change in levels: compressor, or DVD Studio Pro?
The target audience for my DVD is the consumer market, but it'll also be sent to industry people, so it needs to look as good as possible.
Thanks for your help.

Exiting my exile as this thread is interesting.
A couple of things. If you work at a place with a big ole 8000 switcher, there should be some staff engineers to help you track down your black level problem, aren't there? Also, there's no need to hit a switcher crosspoint simply to monitor your levels in a waveform/vectorscope.
In FCP, black is digital which means zero IRE. The output of your dvd player is analog which means black is 7.5 IRE. Darn near every dvd player made has a menu choice to manipulate black levels, you should probably find out where your studio dvd player is set.
The dvd player output is analog, why not plug the thing into an analog waveform?
If you must convert the dvd output to SDI, you need to make sure the frame shaker TBC controls are set to unity, did you do this?
If you must hit a switcher crosspoint, (my knowledge of the Sony switchers is very very thin) there are handles within the switcher for TBC controls; make sure that crosspoint is set to unity as well.
Black levels are tricky, without being there it's hard to tell you exactly why. Have a house engineer walk through the steps with you.
But, to answer your first question, the built-in scopes within FCP are innaccurate, trust calibrated hardware scopes first. Again, if you must use a frame shaker, you MUST set the TBC controls to unity before you can make any sort of qualitative judgements.
Report back.

Playback on External NTSC Monitor

My deck in my non-linear editing system is the Panasonic AG-DV2500. I have always had an external "client monitor" which was a Sony NTSC studio monitor hooked up to the "output" of the deck. This time, I have one of the Sony LCD studio monitors. When I capture, the video in the capture window is in sync with the NTSC monitor. But when I put the captured video on the timeline and play it, the video and audio is out of sync on the external NTSC monitor. What am I doing wrong? There has always been a slight delay between the playback window in Premier and the external monitor, but not like this!

I guess it's more accurate to say that there is a dramatic delay in the video between what I'm seeing in the playback window on my computer monitor and what I'm seeing on the external NTSC monitor. The audio does not have that delay, so on the external monitor the audio and video are out of sync. It makes it difficult to show anyone what you're working on, which is what the "client" monitor is supposed to do.

Playback video on external monitor

HI all - I'm running OS X 10.6.8 on a Mac Pro with 2 monitors and working with FCP 7. One monitor is an Apple Cinema monitor and the other is a Sony. I've run video playback before, but now as I attempt to playback video from the timeline in my 2nd monitor I only see a still frame from where the play head is when I press play and it changes to the end frame when I press stop. The settings I have for video playback seem the same but when I press play I hear the audio progress but the video stays stuck on a single frame. (I do have all frames selected in VIEW_EXTERNAL VIDEO drop down menu) Any ideas what went wrong? Thanks for taking the time

Thanks for taking a minute to get back to me about this monitor situation. I'm afraid to change the settings again - i tried that and lost my last WIP sequence, so I'm going to be super cautious here. these are the setting i have on the project if you wouldn't mind taking a look and letting me know what you think I'd greatly appreciate it:
original footage:
EASY SETUP
TIMELINE I'M TRYING TO PLAYBACK SETTINGS:
RENDER CONTROL SETTINGS:
AND FINALLY MY VIEW SETTING:
Do these all look like they line up to you?

Problems with FCP playback on external LG monitor

I have just purchased an LG 22EA63 external monitor to use with FCP 7. Monitor connects fine, works ok with other programmes but once in FCP , when i transfer both canvas and viewer windows onto the monitor, playback in not smooth with flickering streaks as if the footage is interlaced (even though my current project only has progressive footage). However it gets even worse with other FCP projects that contain interlaced footage - playback on canvas is even more jerky and streaky, and the viewer window is unable to play back most alterations made to clips (especially anyhting to do with motion or speed), making clips jaggered and unwatchable.
Any ideas what the problem is? I'm assuming it is to do with the LG screens' native resolution which is 1080p , but that doesn't explain why it is failing to play progressive clips at full quality.. Also I couldn't find another resolution setting that worked.
I am connecting via HDMI to a MacBook Pro (2.8ghz Intel Core Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, native screen res: 1440x900).
Obviously if I cant fix this I'll have to take the monitor back, any ideas or advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you!

I guess it's more accurate to say that there is a dramatic delay in the video between what I'm seeing in the playback window on my computer monitor and what I'm seeing on the external NTSC monitor. The audio does not have that delay, so on the external monitor the audio and video are out of sync. It makes it difficult to show anyone what you're working on, which is what the "client" monitor is supposed to do.

Anyone having issues with playback on an external monitor in the new CC 2014?

So Premiere has updated its little self on my mac and now won't work with my external monitor via HDMI or Apple TV. Works absolutely fine the rest of the time but as soon as I try and get external playback to work it crashes.
Is anyone else having this issue / know a fix?
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Premiere CC won't playback on my second monitor

I can use the second monitor for putting anything else (like a window) but it doesn't playback the footage I'm using like before. The problem started when I updated Premiere several months ago and I can't find a solution. It does recognize the monitor and it is selected for playback; I've tried turning that off, rebooting Premiere and then turning it on again and nothing happens. Also tried the "Enable Transmission" option, wich is on also, but still doesn't work.

What is your exact brand/model graphics adapter (ATI or nVidia or ???)
What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
-If Windows, do NOT rely on Windows Update to have current driver information
-you need to go direct to the vendor web site and check updates for yourself
ATI Driver Autodetect http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
nVidia Driver Downloads http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Playback sluggish on secondary monitor

Now here's an interesting conundrum: Why is video playback choppy on my secondary monitor? I don't see this problem with other playback applications, including Quicktime Player--even when playing the same file!
This wasn't the case with iTunes 6. Video playback seemed much more responsive in general under v6, in fact.
This isn't a dealbreaker, of course, but I often like to watch a podcast on my secondary monitor while surfing or answering e-mail on my primary.
(And yes, I realize that 64-bit Windows is still technically unsupported.)
--David McDermott
Windows XP Pro x64 on Athlon X2

Whups! Cancel that--I just tried disabling Direct3D again, and this time it worked.
(Imagine my embarassment!)
Bizarre... Must be some ATI driver incompatibility.
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Full Screen Playback Control Impossible Using Monitor 2 in Dual Monitor

Recent iTunes update (patch didn't fix) causes playback control to disappear when the cursor is on the monitor showing the movie. Controls reappear when cursor is moved to first monitor. User cannot get the cursor near the control panel. Must drop out of full screen playback to touch controls with the cursor.

Isn't there a SINGLE MONITOR option in COLOR? Use that.
I don't think two graphics cards will work with Color, as Color relies on the card when it comes time to render. Might mess it up, or not work.
Shane

Audio playback delayed thru Firewire monitor - JVC BR-DV3000

First I apologize for the length of this post, but I want to make sure I've adequately described the problem. For years, I've edited with FCP using a JVC HR-DVS2U (DV/SVHS combo deck) with great results. I use it to capture and output through firewire, also connected is a monitor and a UVW-1600 Beta machine.
Now a buddy of mine also has a system using a JVC BR-DV3000. When I attempted to set his system up similar to mine, using the DV deck as the conduit for monitoring and recording to beta, he complained about audio dropping out at the beginning of transitions in the timeline. This was the weirdest thing! How does the DV machine know that a transition is taking place?! I thought it was just data out. I finally traded out machines with him and hooked it up to my system. At first, I didn't have any problems. I mainly edit 30-second commercials, so I played back a timeline with three dozen transitions in it without a hitch! So now I'm really confused, until one day I had a 20 minute long timeline of about 20 promos back to back, all digitized from beta. Sure enough there was the audio playback delay. I switched the audio playback from firewire to computer audio out and I did not have the problem, but I could not record out to tape in this configuration. Then I thought maybe it's just the length of the timeline, so I opened up a commercial timeline that plays back fine and pasted one of the beta promos in there. The 30 second spot played back fine and then when it hit the beta vid it had the audio dropout. Now understand, the audio is NOT out of sync, it just drops out for about two seconds when playing back from the timeline. You can watch the VU meter on the deck, it completely loses the audio for two seconds, mostly when you first start the timeline and at most transitions. I now think it may have something to do with the source material. I just digitized some video from DV that was shot on a JVC camera, when most of the stuff I shoot is from a Canon XL1. The JVC camera footage has this dropout issue. Any clues?

This has happened to me too. The problem is with the firmware in older DV3000 decks. JVC has an update, but you can't do it yourself. JVC or your dealer will have to do it for you. In the meantime there is a workaround. Make sure your DV3000 is powered on FIRST. Then start FCP. That trick always worked for me. Good Luck.

4:3 playback on 16:9 monitors is distorted

I have a DVD with 4:3 and 16:9 footage on separate tracks. When I encoded with BitVice and authored with DVDSP, I thought I set all aspect ratio settings correctly.
The DVD does play back correctly on 4:3 monitors: 4:3 footage is full frame and 16:9 footage plays back letterboxed as I intend.
However, on 16:9 monitors, the 16:9 footage correctly fills the screen but the 4:3 footage also does. 4:3 footage gets stretched and distorted horizontally, until I change the setting on the DVD player during playback.
Is this typical, or is there some setting I missed that will automatically put black bars on the side for just the 4:3 footage when played on a 16:9 monitor?
Thanks.

Trog Ray wrote:
I suppose the only way to be sure 4:3 footage is played back within a 16:9 DVD correctly without the viewer having to change the DVD player's setting would be for me to add the black on the left and right myself and then encoding the footage as 16:9. But then this 4:3 footage would play back on 4:3 monitors with black on all 4 sides rather than full screen, so that's not a great solution, at least as long as there are still a lot of 4:3 TVs in use.
Actually, if you pillarbox (your 4:3 material), setting your DVDSP track to *16:9 Pan-Scan* will force DVD players connected to 4:3 sets to crop the pillarboxes, providing the desired full-frame image. For DVD players connected to 16:9 monitors, the image will be displayed with pillarboxes.
In case you're tempted, +do not+ use the 16:9 Pan-Scan & Letterbox display mode, as that setting is dependent on the exact 4:3 TV shape/Display setting of your DVD player (most have two: 4:3 Letterbox and 4:3 Regular) thereby producing unreliable results. (16:9 Pan-Scan works on either setting.)
In case it matters, I've been doing this (16:9 Pan-Scan with pillarboxed encodes) for a few years now with great success.

RED Anamorphic playback

I'm wondering if there's a way for FCPX to recognize and properly playback RED Epic footage shot anamorphically. I know I can always transform/distort clips in the timeline, but it'd awesome if they automatically displayed in the proper aspect ratio.
I noticed there's a metadata field for "RED clip aspect ratio" and "RED pixel aspect ratio" etc, so it seems all the info is there but it still plays back squeezed.
Anyone have ideas on this? If not I'm hoping Apple will fix this in the next version.

Thanks Paul, but I'd like this to work with the native r3d files. So QT Edit won't help there, although maybe it'd work with the QT proxies.
It's really not a big issue, it's just that the workflow is so close to perfect and the auto-desqueeze seems like something FCPX can handle.

Playback on a external monitor with HDMI

Hello
Im new to CS 6, and I have looked all over this forum but cannot find the answer to the question. I would like to have a playback monitor be a second computer that we can send lower thirds to using premiere (I know its not a perfect system but it should work for us). My problem is that in the Premiere doesnt seem to regognize the computer. But windows regognizes it as a external monitor just fine. The computer were sending it too has a Black Magic Intensity Pro with an HDMI in and out. I hope im not missing something obivious.You guys have helped me out before so im hoping you can do it again.
Thanks
Jamie

Sorry ...I dont understand your requirement
I would like to have a playback monitor be a second computer that we can send lower thirds to using premiere
Can you expand a little?

Anamorphic playback on a consumer monitor?

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