Canvas frozen

My canvas is frozen when playing video from timeline. The AJA video plays fine, but the canvas is frozen. It seem to effect be just one user. I have trashed the user pref. still no help.

If you go to Finalcut>AUdio/Video Setting then the a/V Devices tap... in video, there is a option for "Mirror on desktop". Is this marked?
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Hey guys. This started yesterday. Every time I hit play, the image from the frame I began playing at on the timeline remains frozen on my NTSC monitor, while the movie plays jittery, roughly, totally unsmoothly in the canvas window. I'm pretty sure I've tried all of Shane's answers, but right now I'm stuck. Any help is immensely appreciated.
PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Shane's stock answers addresses this, but make sure
that under the View mene that you are set to "All
Frames" and not "Single Frame"
Yeah, I had that covered from the beginning, but this sucker is stuck on whatever frame I begin to play from.
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Incorrect Frame Frozen on Canvas

There's a section in my timeline that whenever I play through it, a frame from a different section of the clip gets frozen in my Canvas. The audio is correct. And when I open the clip in the Viewer its correct....
I tried deleting the clip and re-dropping it into the Timeline, same problem. If I slide a different clip from further ahead in the video into this range the same thing happens to it.
The clip I'm editing is a long one (52 min.) as I'm editing a short version of an event.
HELP! Im on a tight deadline!

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 appropriate version of FCP Rescue at http://www.pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue and run it.
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After the RAM upgrade, FCP timeline will play but video is black in the canvas and image is frozen on the NTSC. Video WILL play in Viewer but no audio.
All cables have been checked to make sure they were put back correctly - will keep checking for errors in re-cabling computer.
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External monitor frozen during playback

I am having trouble with my monitor not PLAYING during playback. I get an image when I scroll through the timeline but when I play - the image is frozen.. As soon as playback stops, the monitor refreshes to the correct frame - but it doesn't show during playback.
We have tried all these steps already:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
7 ) If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section.
What is really mindboggling is that the monitor is working in terms of giving us the correct image - just not during playback.
PLease help - thanks.
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I think you may be onto something with the graphics card concept. The problem I am having only exists when I am working on an HD project. When I switched back to DV-NTSC then the monitor is fine during playback.
Yes, I am routing my external monitor through my DV deck, which is not an HD deck - so again, that could be another weak link in the chain.
This is the first HD project that I am editing, so obviously a few kinks still need to be worked out. My internal hard drive has 1.5 gigs of ram but I am not sure what the specs are on the graphics card.

Contrast / Gamma Different in Canvas and Desktop Preview

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The contrast of my video differs between the Canvas Window and Desktop Preview.
I assume the two are using different gamma settings. But I can't figure out what's going on, to know what those settings are and how to assess the final display picture.
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- - - http://epokhecutmedia.com/images/gamma-ts-canvas.png
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- - - http://epokhecutmedia.com/images/gamma-ts-preview.png
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I've gone through every gamma setting I know of and can't match the Canvas and Desktop Preview or make sense of the difference.
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My Canvas window display jumps between different contrasts (possibly gamma values) automatically while I'm working.
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- - - When I'm using filter, such as the 3-Way Color Corrector, when I click to drag a slider, the image with darken across the mids. Sometimes, as I drag, the canvas will erratically jump back and forth between the two values.
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edit by: FordPrefectRevisited, Screen Grabs added

If I may re-open this thread, let me ask the question FordPrefect only alluded to:
Given that I should be using a pro-level HD broadcast monitor to view everything, given that every piece of footage is different in the particulars, and given that the Canvas Window image is almost always different than any other playback system (Finder, QT, VLC Players, etc.), are there general exposure/gamma changes y'all make to account for the visual difference between the Canvas Window and other playback systems? If you're anything like me, you don't start from SCRATCH on every single edit... You have a few go-to filters with a few go-to settings, and then make minor adjustments according to the needs of the footage.
For instance, in order to get the exported image close in exposure to the ideal Canvas Window image, I usually go: Effects - Video Filters - Quicktime - Brightness and Contrast - and then adjust the Brightness to 0.85 and it seems to get close.
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Canvas Remains Still While Output Monitor is Fine

Recently the Mac Pro station I work on was upgraded from FCP 6.x to 7.03. Noting that everything worked fine prior to the upgrade and everything works fine after the upgrade except this new problem:
When scrubbing the timeline audio and video playback fine on both the external monitor and the FCP canvas window. When I playback the timeline the output monitor works fine but the canvas window remains frozen on the first frame where the playhead was. As soon as you stop playback the canvas will update to the current and correct frame but it remains still or frozen during all playback except scrubbing.
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Oops, sorry,wrong answer - let me try again:
Go to the menu Final Cut Pro > Audio Video Settings and click on the A/V devices Tab. Make sure "Mirror on Desktop" is selected:
MtD

Canvas/work area image gets stuck, doesn't show any changes made?

For some reason, if I minimize my Photoshop CS4 window for a few minutes and come back to it the canvas image I was working on is stuck for lack of better words. I change the zoom, doesn't do anything, although it shows at the top that I did in fact zoom to x%. Same for even using the brush to scribble, making layers invisible etc. Basically anything that changes what you see on the main canvas.
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Hello, everyone. I've had this problem before, and somehow managed to figure out how to fix it, but I'm having it again, and - for the life of me - it's stumping the heck out of me and I haven't been able to figure out how to undo it.
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Never had this problem before in over 8 years of Final cut editing...
No images appear in my canvas viewer when I am editing! The canvas viewer is there, but no images appear when the playback is idol.
Obviously this is pain in the neck if I want to position images, crop images, layer images on top of each other, etc.
However, when I press "play", the playback in the canvas viewer works fine. I can watch everything that is in the timeline just fine. But once I stop the player, whichever point I stop at, that image is frozen there, until I press play again. Even when I click a new point on the timeline, the frozen image does not change.
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*** FCP!
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Thanks for the info, Tom. It's FCE 2.0.3, and yes, the canvas is set to "Fit to Window." All these clips have been in the project for a long time, so there's nothing to render.
I sometimes enlarge the Canvas window to see details better, and that seems to be when the Canvas most often gets stuck and freezes (with the X appearing). Do you suppose FCE can't keep up the frame rate in a larger window?
Anyway, if it is processing something, it never seems to get finished doing it. And when it gets stuck, I can't unstick it without quitting and restarting the program. While the canvas is frozen, no matter where I click on the Canvas' scrubber bar, the video in the Canvas won't jump to the new place. I can also run the playhead up and down the Timeline witn no effect on the Canvas. It remains well and truly jammed. Very annoying.

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FCP 5.0.3 works great on my iMac G4 (Flat panel) 15"
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Low and behold - I capture some video in standard DV (4.3) and all goes well. BUT, when I try to view it in either the Viewer or drop it into the timeline and look at it in the Canvass - I get audio - but the video is STUCK.
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Kind rgards

SHEESH - I found my own answer after some real experimenting.
BTW - I intend to crank this thing to 2GB - when the RAM becomes available to buy (not available, yet, tho - channel trickle is slow)
ANYWAY -
I found that external video was playing great. So I opened the same project on both computers and went through the menus ONE-BY-ONE to find the difference.
Well - I found the answer.
RECAP:
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HOWEVER, the video was playing fine externally.
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Make the timeline the active window.
Select: VIEW>EXTERNAL VIDEO>OFF - this fixed the problem. It was set to ALL FRAMES - which seemed to cause the problem.
There - answer discovered for anyone else who may run into this.
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