FCP 7 & 3 Monitors

Hello, I currently have a 2009 Mac Pro, with two AOC 2752VH 27" LED HD Monitors, and one Samsung P2570HD 24.6-Inch Full 1080p HDTV LCD Monitor. How would I go about setting up Final Cut Pro 7 so the two AOC monitors are for the editing, and the Samsung monitor is for the playback output?
Thanks!
Manny Rothman

You need a video output device that will utilize an available PCIe slot in your Mac Pro to provide video to your Samsung monitor. Some examples:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/618348-REG/Matrox_MXO2_MINI_D_MXO2_Mini_fo r_Desktop.html
or
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/618185-REG/AJA_IO_EXPRESS_PCIE_Io_Express_ Portable_Video.html
There are others.
MtD

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Trouble Viewing FCP on Monitor

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Frank,
This is a new one. As the old proverb goes, "a man with one watch always knows the time, a man with two can never be sure."
What happens if you try another camera and/or converter (aka Option 3)?
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Hello forum gods.
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<big breath>
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G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Some question back atcha:
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486. Or are you referring to DV NTSC?
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2) Your Profile says you have a Quad G5, but your
post says it's a MacPro. Which is it?
Sorry - Consider that my first public gaffe in the new Mac world. I bought the Mac Pro. Time to change my profile. I bought it last week - it isn't even here yet. Supposed to be delivered today...
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external video monitor while you're editing? If so,
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EDIT: As for the meaning of life, go ask your father.
Gaah... He handed me "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and told me to get to reading....
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Not familiar with FCE. Did you try the other advice offered in this thread and go to the Apple Menu > System Preferences and click on the Displays Icon.
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Message was edited by: Meg The Dog to fix typo

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topas_nmon──.=OnlyBusyMode─────Host=huxp0012───────Refresh=2 secs───08:04.31─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Memory ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│          Physical PageSpace |        pages/sec In     Out | FileSystemCache                                                                                        │
│% Used      98.6%      2.1% | to Paging Space   0.0    0.0 | (numperm) 17.5%                                                                                        │
│% Free        1.4%     97.9% | to File System   32.5 107.5 | Process   61.1%                                                                                        │
│MB Used   80780.6MB   955.2MB | Page Scans        0.0        | System    19.9%                                                                                        │
│MB Free    1139.4MB 44100.8MB | Page Cycles       0.0        | Free       1.4%                                                                                        │
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│                              | Page Faults      56.5        | Total    100.0%                                                                                        │
│------------------------------------------------------------ | numclient 17.5%                                                                                        │
│Min/Maxperm     2383MB( 3%) 71495MB( 90%) <--% of RAM      | maxclient 90.0%                                                                                        │
│Min/Maxfree     960   1088       Total Virtual 124.0GB      | User      75.7%                                                                                        │
│Min/Maxpgahead    2      8    Accessed Virtual   64.6GB 52.1%| Pinned    21.3%                                                                                        │
│                                                             | lruable pages   20336400.0                                                                             │
│ Network ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│I/F Name Recv=KB/s Trans=KB/s packin packout insize outsize Peak->Recv TransKB                                                                                        │
│    en0       0.2       1.7      3.0     17.5   65.3   97.8        8.7   170.8                                                                                        │
│    en1    7276.7   69863.1 28124.3 74410.0 264.9 961.4    11943.8 116139.2                                                                                       │
│    en2     380.8      73.4    586.5    441.5 664.8 170.2      435.1    73.4                                                                                        │
│    en3       0.0       0.0      0.5      0.0   46.0    0.0        0.8     0.7                                                                                        │
│    en4       0.0       0.0      0.5      0.0   46.0    0.0      143.8 17602.7                                                                                        │
│    lo0       0.1       0.1      0.5      0.5 116.0 116.0       93.8    93.8                                                                                        │
│ Total       7.5      68.3 in Mbytes/second   Overflow=0                                                                                                             │
│I/F Name MTU ierror oerror collision Mbits/s Description                                                                                                            │
│    en0   1500      0      0      0 10240 Standard Ethernet Network Interface                                                                                        │
│    en1   1500      0      0      0 10240 Standard Ethernet Network Interface                                                                                        │
│    en2   1500      0      0      0 10240 Standard Ethernet Network Interface                                                                                        │
│    en3   1500      0      0      0 10240 Standard Ethernet Network Interface                                                                                        │
│    en4   1500      0      0      0 10240 Standard Ethernet Network Interface                                                                                        │
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MK

Hi Team,
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Client Kerberos Plugin                (CLNT_KRB_PLUGIN) =
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SPM log size                          (SPM_LOG_FILE_SZ) = 256
SPM resync agent limit                 (SPM_MAX_RESYNC) = 20
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TCP/IP Service name                          (SVCENAME) = sapdb2FCP
Discovery mode                               (DISCOVER) = SEARCH
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SSL server keydb file                   (SSL_SVR_KEYDB) =
SSL server stash file                   (SSL_SVR_STASH) =
SSL server certificate label            (SSL_SVR_LABEL) =
SSL service name                         (SSL_SVCENAME) =
SSL cipher specs                      (SSL_CIPHERSPECS) =
SSL versions                             (SSL_VERSIONS) =
SSL client keydb file                  (SSL_CLNT_KEYDB) =
SSL client stash file                  (SSL_CLNT_STASH) =
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I am trying to understand how to import RGB still and video digital files into FCP and make the levels come out correctly. This is not an analog setup question.
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Thanks Graeme, I missed the article the first time around.
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This sure seems harder than it should be.
Rick
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Okay, I'm fairly new to Final Cut so I'm sure there's a simple fix for this I'm just missing, but I need some help. I'm working on a nearly complete sequence, using the audio mixing set-up. I tried to import room tone to tracks 7 and 8, and for some reason, whenever I do this, these thin red bars appear in intervals at the top of my timeline, and when I do play back, everytime the playhead hits these red bars, I get two beeps. I can't figure out how to get rid of it. Any suggestions on what's causing this?
-Jett

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