Desktop Preview AGP only? What to do on MacPro?

Just upgraded from a G5 to a MacPro, using a second monitor desktop preview only shows a white box. It works fine full screen on the main monitor but not at all on the second - it's just DV footage and it always worked fine on the G5.
The manual says preview on a second or third monitor is only possible with an AGP graphics card, the G5 was AGP but MacPros are all PCIe - so I figured this was an out of date statement, there's no way to put an AGP into a MacPro is there?
The bummer is I paid extra for a second Nvidia card, waited for the custom build and bought a third monitor, then discovered it doesn't work, I have disconnected these and tried just the 2 monitor setup with no luck.
Thank for any help.

Thanks Jerry, I am completely stumped.
Yes it is DV and preview works fine on the main display (full screen)
I trashed the prefs - no change.
I disconnected the 3rd monitor (but left the 2nd card in place) - no change
I took out the 2 card - bingo! preview works as expected on monitor 2
Reinstalled 2nd card - preview doesn't work on 2nd or 3rd monitors once more
It seems no matter what I do if the 2nd graphics card is installed there is no desktop preview available.
Which is a shame as I paid extra (and waited) for the second card upgrade specifically to do this!

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I'm trying to solve this problem for about 7 days. I can't find anything about this topic. Lots of problems about capturing in FCP 4. I had this problem as well but fixed it, thanks too this forum.
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I upgraded my Mac to Tiger 10.4.3 and I worked for about 2 weeks with FCP HD. Then I upgraded FCP HD to FCP 5. Now FCP only sees the Fire Wire external video when I go to the menu "View" and click "Video Playback". I used to see the Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-Main and Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-RAW options.
I thought it was the same problem with Quicktime 7 automatic install again. So I manually installed Quicktime 7 without any success.
I removed the preferences out of the ~/library/preferences/.
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First thank you for responding. It is nice to know you're not alone in this world when FCP let you down.
I looked at the other post. I don't have the space which you are talking about. It's just the same as your screen shot. No line spaces.
Maybe this additional info will be of any help:
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I hava a Macbook Pro 2.2 GHz with 2 GB RAM. I would like to use a connected 24"-Display for preview of my HD-Material (ProRes and HDV). Unfortunately I am not getting my Macbook Pro to playback all frames. Whend Digital Cinema Desktop Preview is activated, there are only still frames displayed. No smooth playing back neither in the canvas window nor the 24" display. I have External Video -> All Frames checked.
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I'm using a Dell ultrasharp 20" that looks very good that way; I just didn't think it was HD.
It is, but it is a converted RGB image...and since it is 20", it isn't pixel for pixel (well, it would be for 720p, not 1080), and if it isn't pixel for pixel, then it is a converted image. Not suitable for color correction.
then using a DVI to HDMI cable I should be seeing HD from my Sony bravia also?
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# Contributor: dasonk < dasonk at gmail dot com >
pkgname=rstudio-desktop-preview
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pkgrel=1
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url="http://www.rstudio.org/ide/download/preview"
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Trilby wrote:There are already two (redundant) -git packages in the AUR for rstudio - what's different about this one?
Good question!
rstudio-desktop is built from the sources (not the binaries) but it out of date and I'm not interested in the official release
rstudio-desktop-bin is what I based my PKGBUILD off of. This is using the debian binaries from the official releases to install. These only get updated every so often (not quite often enough for my liking with how quick Rstudio has been adding new features).
rstudio-desktop-git is the git version of rstudio. I can't get this to build at the moment and is a little too unstable for my liking.
Rstudio provides 'preview' releases which offer a decent compromise between stability and getting the newest features. This is what I want to offer. Honestly if you think that this would just clutter the AUR with something that is unnecessary then I don't need to upload it to the AUR but figured that if I was interested in it then somebody else might be as well.
Lone_Wolf wrote:
dasonk wrote:However I feel like I cheated a little because I just modified the PKGBUILD of rstudio-desktop-bin so that it would work with the preview release; this seems sensible to me but I'm not sure if I need to give the maintainer of that package any credit somewhere.this seems sensible to me but I'm not sure if I need to give the maintainer of that package any credit somewhere.
In these cases it's common practice to add them as contributor.
Note that you should put yourself as maintainer.
i386 : you could comment those lines, and add that they may work but haven't been tested.
you should add -bin to the name of the package.
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# Contributor: Meow < meow at linux dot cn >
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'x86_64')
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md5sums=($_x64md5)
esac
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I have a second monitor hooked up to my DVI port on my mac book pro. I have its resolution set to a reasonable 1280x800.
I want to set it to be a full screen preview monitor, so I have the "Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Full Screen" option selected. I have it set to "Mirror" and I have it set to "All Frames" as per the various posts on this forum suggest.
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Yes I have opened the manuals. I would not be posting here if the manuals had answered my question. And yes, I've searched the forums for similar issues, and have made note of the solutions and suggestions I've tried. I'm trying to be a good forum citizen here but the tone and caliber or responses are troubling and patronizing.
Your suggestion is noted but I will turn to other solutions before buying the thousands (if not tens of thousands) of dollars worth of storage required to keep all this footage as DV. That being said, I have transcoded a test clip to DV to check it out and it behaved no differently than the codecs listed prior. I did however, discover some new behavior that may be useful in figuring this out.
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Been a while since I needed the forum, hope someone out there can help. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.
To get straight to the point, I am trying to get Video Playback on my Cinema Display. This Mac Pro, just like my MacBook Pro, has never had a camera or deck connected to it. The only thing ever connected to either of them, via FireWire, are my external HDs containing the QuickTime files, so I don't understand why it is looking for a device.
All footage is captured through older desktop Macs onto external HDs. The desktops used for capturing are the last generation before Apple went Intel.
Once captured, we connect the HDs to the Intel Mac Pros for editing. Our format is DV-NTSC (thankfully will be tapeless HD in two weeks)
I am not sure why, but when I go to the Video Playback option on my Mac Pro it says [Missing] Apple Firewire NTSC (720 x 480). When I access the same option on my MacBook Pro, the Video Playback shows Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Main.
I can't figure this out, the desktop and the laptop are configured exactly the same. Why are they displaying different Playback Video Output options?
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Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48khz
Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48khz
Device Control Preset: FireWire NTSC
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Edit to Tape/PTV Output Video: Same as Playback
Edit to Tape/PTV Output Audio: Same as Playback
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On the Mac Pro, I have:
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- Exteranl Video = All Frames and Single Frames
- Created new Easy Setups
- Changed the Display res
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- Went into Audio/Video settings = A/V Devices = Playback Output =Video = "[Missing] Apple Firewire NTSC (720 x 480)" or "None". There is an option button highlighted but nothing happens when ai go to activare it.
- Just changed [Missing] Apple Firewire NTSC (720 x 480) to "None" and now the option it shows is "None"
The only way for me to view my FCP project on my Cinema Display is to connect it to my laptop.
I have read where some people had to reinstall their FCP, which I will do if it is completely necessary, but not right now.
Any input greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all of your time.
No second monitor connected. Yes, have tried other formats.
I don't think I am going to do a complete clean install of the entire OS and all my apps, just FCP6. I have copies of FCP X and CS6 installed on another Mac Pro that have been waiting to be played with. I just need to get this project finished. It is a college graduation w/ a RT of 1:54:00 (the horror). While I am play with FCPX and CS6, I'll do a reinstall of FCP6 just because I am curious.
I plan on purchasing five LCDs next week for previewing, so this my not even be that much of a big deal.
As for cloning, for whatever reason, it gives me anxiety. In all my years, 12+ years of owning Macs, I have yet to clone my system. Again for whatever reason, I don't really trust myself that I would do it the correct way. I have a copy of CarbonCopy but never used it .
I just shoot and edit..

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Hi there
Just wondering if it's possible to run Color with 2 screens using one screen as the UI+Scopes and the second screen as full screen Digi Cinema Desktop Preview?
(I see the standard Video out options as FCP has, but they are all ghosted and can't be selected...)
Would an extra PCIex Graphics card allow it, or would I need to get an AJA Kona or similar ?
Thnx!

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"Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-Principal"

Hello, I managed to use the function "Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-Principal" before, to preview some sequences but i can't now. I tried everything (restart, making chose nothing is selected by mistake..) but it doesn't want to work, what can I do ?
Thanks for reading.

I managed to use the function "Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-Principal"
Mine has Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-Main. Is that what you mean?
Try turning off your screen saver options in System Preferences.
What happens if you hit Apple-F12?
You might try trashing the FCE preferences, repair permissions and re-boot.
Al

3 Displays & Cinema Desktop Preview

Hi all...
Have been all over the fora and found many similar problems but none that exactly duplicate my problem.
I have an Apple 23" Display and a Small PAL monitor running off my Radeon 2600 via Apples DVI to Video converter connector. I use the TV to do some simple colour and brightness monitoring but nothing too precise.
Add to this a 3rd display (an Acer 17" LCD) running off another video card - the geforce 7300 that came as standard in my machine.
I want to be able to use the cinema desktop preview on the PAL Monitor but FCP insists on using the Acer whenever it is connected despite it being on a different video card and despite FCP not liking CDP when used on 2 different cards.
The Acer only displays white when it is connected.
I really want the acer to show all my FCP Effects and browser/bins etc/... the Apple Display to show sequence, canvas etc and the monitor to show the Cinema Preview. Is there anyway to get this to happen apart from disconnecting the Acer when using FCP and sucking it up regarding the palettes, bins etc?
Can you specify in FCP (or elsewhere - system setting etc) which display to use for Cinema Desktop Preview?
Cheers

FCP doesn't support multiple Graphics cards...only one.
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