Black Screen Blues

When I open my Final Cut Pro, it comes up as a black screen. If I click around up top - the desktop opens. But as soon as I attempt to do anything in FCP the screen goes black once again - Can anyone help me?

Studio X's response is right on the money! You probably either altered your Easy Setup settings or creating a new custom Easy Setup and chose Desktop Cinema for your Video Display. With FCP running go to Final Cut Pro (menu) and select Audio/Video Settings. On either the Summary or A/V Devices tab...Video Display drop-down...just go with FireWire NTSC 720x480 and that should take care of.
Video editing is enough fun...without trying it blind-folded : )

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Hi there,
To anybody that can help me, I thank you very much indeed in advance.
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This whole problem seemed to go away for a day or two, but the login was still slower than usual the past few days.
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After a few forced shutdowns I left the computer for maybe 5-10 mins and it seemed to sort itself out after a few finder relaunches etc, and so i tried a few things;
3) I tried installing the newer version of the security update 2006-002 version 1.1 i think? At the same time i took itunes off the startup launches and also switched off auto login for my account (a silly idea it seems).
Since restarting from the security update, the operating system gets to the login window, which is unresponsive, and then it then flicks to a black screen with 2 or 3 lines of white text and then flicks to a totally 'mac-blue' screen with the black arrow pointer still active.(this is with the power adaptor connected only, no other cables etc)
I have tried Resetting PRAM, and using fsck, although I am slightly unsure as to whether or not this is useful to me anyway. I cannot reinstall the operating system until next week as my mum has my copy of tiger at home a few hundred miles away!
Any help at all would be so greatly appreciated, especially on the eve of my two year anniversary with my powerbook!
Kind regards,
Henry Harker

Hi Henry
I've just encountered this problem with one of our computers at work. Hopefully this will help.
It's a Login Window Prefs problem. It's probably corrupted so you need to remove the prefs file.
1. Startup in safe mode (hold down shift). You should get a login window for the master admin account.
2. Delete the file: userName>Library>Preferences>com.apple.loginwindow.plist
3. Restart.
Let me know how you go.
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