Canvas "View" Question - FCP 6.05

FCP version 6.05 - A question about the canvas (and viewer also) window "view" choices. Please refer to the lefthand-most pop up menu (located between the time code windows.) While I keep my canvas and viewer set to "Fit to Window", I would like a clarification of "Correct for Aspect Ratio" at the bottom of the view choices. What exactly is being corrected? At times this line is grayed out; others not. It's not covered in the manual (at least I cannot find it), nor can I find it in the APTS book

Video pixels are not square (unlike the way computers display pixel). Video pixels in a 4:3 frame are narrower than tall and those in a 16:9 are wider than tall. If you are shooting DV/NTSC, both images are 720x480 pixels.
Using "correct for aspect ratio", will display the images using non-square pixels - ie as your television will display the image.
If you do not select "correct" the image will be displayed using square pixels with the result that a 4:3 image will be stretched horizontally and the 16:9 image will be squished horizontally.
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I just spent half a day clearing out my hard-drive. The Ram disc space says it's okay. And I even ran a disk utility check.
*** FCP!
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Hi - Make sure the Canvas is set to display RGB:
!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/SetCanvastoRGB.jpg!
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TROUBLESHOOTING IN THE PAST:
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CONCLUSION:
None of the above troubleshooting strategies worked. Increasing the thumbnail cache size may appear to work a little but problem persists with little improvement.
HOW I IDENTIFIED THE PROBLEM:
Only recently have I been working with other formats aside from XDCAM. I've recently incorporated more ProRes files into my most recent project of T2i footage from the Canon DSLR camera. If I open a bin and display thumbnails of the ProRes video clips everything works without a problem. Loading thumbnail bins with the raw .mp4 files also works fine. Only loading XDCAM files will cause FCP to crash. The problem has nothing to do with the Kona card. If you read the posts carefully here and elsewhere you will see the common denominator is the XDCAM encoded video files being displayed as thumbnail icons.
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*"I am having similar issues with two separate projects. The only commonality between them is XDCam.*
*To possibly isolate it I reinstalled FCP on one system, and installed latest Blackmagic driver on the the same. Both systems are up to date visa vi OS, FCP, and QT.*
*Both still crash with the same regularity as described here."*
Apple, this problem has persisted for more than two years and is a major problem. Just search the forums including this one. Any further upgrades of Final Cut Studio or OS X are worthless until this problem is fixed. A brand new body and interior won't fix a car with a broken engine. Please help!! Please solve this issue with the XDCAM footage in FCP!
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[email protected]
/\/\ichael
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these stacked canvas view put on the content canvas.it dispalying and
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{quotei create a two data block's with same table.
one data block for content canvas and one for stacked canvas.{quote}
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Hi(Bonjour)!
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Or
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what is canvas view type property in form?

A canvas is a surface--inside a window container--on which you place the interface items and boilerplate objects that end users interact with when they run the form. By default, any canvas you create at runtime is assigned to the window named WINDOW1. To explicitly associate a canvas to a specfic window, set the canvas' Window property accordingly. While you can create and delete canvases in the Object Navigator, you will use the Layout Editor to accomplish most of your canvas-related tasks.
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My Dear Friend,
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Canvas/Viewer Zooming past 100% question?

When I zoom the Canvas or Viewer past 100%, I think I should start to see actual pixels. By the time I get to 800%, I should be able to see the actual pixels, albeit very small. When I do this with Apple Intermediate or Apple ProRes MOV's, at like 800% I see what looks like VERY smoothed pixels. Is my output going to look like that? When I convert my input with a 3rd party codec such as CineformHD at the same resolution (I'm using 1920x1080 with all codecs), and when I zoom in, I start to see the pixel structure as I'm used to in Photoshop. I like it much better when I see the pixel structure.
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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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