External Video Freeze...

I know this ??? has been asked before, and I looked through and it didn't help me out. I have two apple 23" and one is used to view the external video. When I go to external video>> view all frames, video playback>>desktop preview - full screen, everything shows up as it should. I then play and it does audio but not video playback, then I stop and it's on the correct frame. Now I can scrub through it and it plays everything as is, now why can't I figure this one out??? Thanks for your help

"The dreaded Digital Cinema Desktop only supports DV and uncompressed."
Oh-oh? Are you sure this is true? I am planning to buy a monitor to try this thinking it was the only affordable way to get a look at the true HDV resolution when monitoring?
The FCP HD and Broadcast Formats manual has this somewhat ambiguous statement...
"Editing HDV is similar to editing other formats in Final Cut Pro. However, there are some differences: Â You cannot view native MPEG-2 HDV video on an external HDV device connected via FireWire. As an alternative, you can use the Digital Cinema Desktop Preview option."
Paul

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When I'm editing my video in Final Cut Pro 7, the external video Video freezes, I only hear the audio. To try to solve, I click on View> External Video> Refresh A /V Devices and nothing changes. Canvas in the program, the video runs normally.

Freezing or skipping during playback can be caused by any number of things, or by a combination of things:
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2. Effects added to clips exceed your system's real time capabilities. Render the Sequence fully then try playback again.
3. Storing media on the boot drive or a USB drive.
4. Having less than 20% free space on the capture scratch volume and especially on your boot (system) drive.
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Hi everyone, I have just finished my biggest project in 3 months. Thankx for all your helps & I love the MULTICAM feature very much.
Now i'm on the second project. This project was shot on DigiBeta PAL.
To make it short: does anyone has a frozen picture as they play it out to the external video monitor for the uncompress 10bit file?
3months ago when I digitized in as uncompress 10bit , fcp play out to external monitor FINE, including the multicam feature.
However, since I need to work with 10cam at the same time, I have to capture in as DV (my source was DVCAM) so fcp can play all 10cam in multiclip mode. everything went perfect.
TOday, I capture my sources both NTSC & PAL, they can only play in the mac monitor but not the external video monitor. feeding out to external monitor make the clips freeze. the picture is frozen but the audio still playing.
My drives are fast enough since we had been working with these MEDEA drives for years.
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thankx for all your helps but I had tried all those before I post the question. I'm no newbie. It must be FCP's bug. I trashed the pref & select 8bit instead of 10bit for viewing, & it play ok for single clip. On multiclip, it shutter alittle bit. Maybe I need to reinstall fcp. Don't know yet.
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VGA Core Clock 324.0 MHz
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SubSystem ID 0x00021002
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Frequency 0.0 Hz
Slot DIMM1
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Data Bit Width 0 b
Memory Slot 2/4
Installed Enabled Size 0 B
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Slot DIMM2
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Total Bit Width 0 b
Data Bit Width 0 b
Memory Slot 3/4
Installed Enabled Size 512 MB
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Slot DIMM3
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Total Bit Width 0 b
Data Bit Width 0 b
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Installed Enabled Size 0 B
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Total Bit Width 0 b
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Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM)
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