Canvas and Viewer issues

All of a sudden, can't see vid footage on the viewer or canvas. Hear audio. Clips are in the timeline. 4 hours trying to fix it. Never happened before. People with similar issues have apparently gotten cryptic answers so far. Pleasse! someone who ACTUALLY knows a resolution respond. I am standing by.
Thank you
Boe

Try this:
Shane's Stock Answer #15: White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Make sure the canvas or viewer are selected then go to VIEW>CHANNELS and set it to RGB. It might be set to ALPHA.
OR...
Click on the drop down menu above the Viewer or Canvas and make sure that you are on IMAGE or IMAGE + WIREFRAME.

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Thank you for the advice MtD. This content was encoded using H264 compression, but I have the option within my media encoder application to create only i frames-no B or P frames. This gives me a high quality file that is supposed to be much more "edit friendly" than standard H264.
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Shane's Stock Tip Mantra: If the program was working
fine, and now isn't, or just isn't working the way it
should, the first things to do are:
1) Trash your FCP preferences. Download the
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http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/ and run it.
2) Open the Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
3) (optional) Sacrifice a goat on the eve of the
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finally... i have my wife's yorkshire terrier for sacrifice. would that be a suitable substitute?
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http://connectedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/bam-deployment-gotchas/
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[http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28271_01/doc.1111/e25450/mds_trouble.htm#BABIAGBG |http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28271_01/doc.1111/e25450/mds_trouble.htm#BABIAGBG ]
[http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16162_01/core.1112/e22506/chapter_mds_messages.htm|http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16162_01/core.1112/e22506/chapter_mds_messages.htm]
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///////////App Module Implementation Class/////////////////////////
public class DynamicEntityGenModuleImpl extends ApplicationModuleImpl implements DynamicEntityGenModule {
private static final String DYNAMIC_DETP_VO_INSTANCE = "DynamicDeptVO";
* This is the default constructor (do not remove).
public DynamicEntityGenModuleImpl() {
public ViewObjectImpl getDepartmentsView1() {
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public void buildDynamicDeptComp() {
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if (internalDynamicVO != null) {
System.out.println("OK VO exists, return Defn- " + internalDynamicVO.getDefFullName());
return;
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addViewToPdefApplicationModule(viewDef);
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try {
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entDef.setFullName(entDef.getBasePackage() + ".dynamic." + entDef.getName());
entDef.setName(entDef.getName());
System.out.println("Application Module Path name: " + getDefFullName());
System.out.println("EntDef :" + entDef.getFileName() + " : " + entDef.getBasePackage() + ".dynamic." + entDef.getName());
entDef.setAliasName(entDef.getName());
entDef.setSource("DEPT");
entDef.setSourceType("table");
entDef.addAttribute("ID", "ID", Integer.class, true, false, true);
entDef.addAttribute("Name", "NAME", String.class, false, false, true);
entDef.addAttribute("Location", "LOCATION", Integer.class, false, false, true);
entDef.resolveDefObject();
entDef.registerSessionDefObject();
entDef.writeXMLContents();
entDef.saveXMLContents();
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} catch (Exception ex) {
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viewDef.setUseGlueCode(false);
viewDef.setIterMode(RowIterator.ITER_MODE_LAST_PAGE_FULL);
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viewDef.setFromClauseFlags(ViewDefImpl.CLAUSE_GENERATE_RT);
viewDef.addEntityUsage("DynamicDeptUsage", entityDef.getFullName(), false, false);
viewDef.addAllEntityAttributes("DynamicDeptUsage");
viewDef.resolveDefObject();
viewDef.registerSessionDefObject();
viewDef.writeXMLContents();
viewDef.saveXMLContents();
return viewDef;
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getLocalizedMessage());
return null;
private void addViewToPdefApplicationModule(ViewDefImpl viewDef) {
oracle.jbo.server.PDefApplicationModule pDefAM = oracle.jbo.server.PDefApplicationModule.findDefObject(getDefFullName());
if (pDefAM == null) {
pDefAM = new oracle.jbo.server.PDefApplicationModule();
pDefAM.setFullName(getDefFullName());
pDefAM.setEditable(true);
pDefAM.createViewObject(DYNAMIC_DETP_VO_INSTANCE, viewDef.getFullName());
pDefAM.applyPersonalization(this);
pDefAM.writeXMLContents();
pDefAM.saveXMLContents();
////////adf-config.xml//////////////////////
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<adf-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/config" xmlns:config="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bc4j/configuration" xmlns:adf="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/config/properties"
xmlns:sec="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/security/config">
<adf-adfm-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/config">
<defaults useBindVarsForViewCriteriaLiterals="true"/>
<startup>
<amconfig-overrides>
<config:Database jbo.locking.mode="optimistic"/>
</amconfig-overrides>
</startup>
</adf-adfm-config>
<adf:adf-properties-child xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/config/properties">
<adf-property name="adfAppUID" value="TestDynamicEC-8827"/>
</adf:adf-properties-child>
<sec:adf-security-child xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/security/config">
<CredentialStoreContext credentialStoreClass="oracle.adf.share.security.providers.jps.CSFCredentialStore" credentialStoreLocation="../../src/META-INF/jps-config.xml"/>
</sec:adf-security-child>
<persistence-config>
<metadata-namespaces>
<namespace metadata-store-usage="mdsRepos" path="/sessiondef/"/>
<namespace path="/model/" metadata-store-usage="mdsRepos"/>
</metadata-namespaces>
<metadata-store-usages>
<metadata-store-usage default-cust-store="true" deploy-target="true" id="mdsRepos">
<metadata-store class-name="oracle.mds.persistence.stores.file.FileMetadataStore">
<property name="metadata-path" value="/tmp"/>

</metadata-store>
</metadata-store-usage>
</metadata-store-usages>
</persistence-config>
</adf-config>
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Hi Frank,
I m trying to save entity and view object xml by calling writeXMLContents() and saveXMLContents() so that these objects can be retrieved using the xmls later on.
These methods internally use MDS configuration in adf-config.xml, which is creating the issue.
Please share your thoughts on resolving this or if, there is any other way of creating dynamic entity/view objects for db tables created at runtime.
Nik

FCP 7, viewer clear, but canvas and export blurry

Started with screen recordings provided to me that made using quicktime 10
took quicktime 10 screen recordings and converted them to prores422 HQ in compressor (settings from compressor below)
imported into FCP 7.
They look great in viewer, reasonably sharp and crisp, but them very blurry in canvas and when I export to quicktime movie (not using quicktime conversion). Been using FCP 7 a couple years but my knowledge in many aspects is sub professional.
Tried creating a new sequence to get the sequence to match the settings of the quicktime prores422 screen capture movies but to no avail. The settings of the sequence are not the same as the screen capture movies...I even tried to change the sequence settings but no luck (then exited FCP without saving so as not to screw anything up).
Im probably breaking basic rules here...any help is greatly appreciated.
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Compressor settings for file conversion above:
Name: Apple ProRes 422 for Interlaced material (High Quality)
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File Extension: mov
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Audio: multi-track passthrough
Video Encoder
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Height: (100% of source)
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Padding: None
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Selected: 15.002
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Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
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Progressive
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Here is additional information on the problem.
My sequence includes mostly screen captures, but also some other video (settings below) and some JPEGs. The other video and the JPEGs look fine...both in canvas and when I export sequence to quicktime. The screen captures look terrible...text is very blurry. Same screen captures look fine in my viewer, just goes awry when in canvas and export.
Format of screen capture clips (quicktime 10 screen capture > compressor prores 422 HQ):
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pixel aspect ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601 / DV 720x480
field dominance lower(even)
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frame size: 720x480
compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
data rate 3.6mb/s
pixel aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601
field dominance: Lower/even
also have a couple JPEGs, their settings are:
frame size 2500x2084
compressor: photo-jpeg
field dominance: none
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