Freezing external video

Never had this problem before and not updated any thing. When routing the canvas image to external fire wire monitor the image freezes in the external monitor but not in the canvas, Audio is going through without problem.If I start the playhead on another place it moves but freezes at the first frame. Running the viewer is not a problem either. Cannot understand ,I have checked the settings and every thing looks to be fine.

I am having the same problem as you, except this is only happening in the projects in the "Advanced Editing Techniques in Final Cut Pro 5" by Michael Wohl. All of my other projects work fine.
Also my video is always a red line unrendered, but the Compressor/Frame Rate/Frame Size are the same for the clips and the sequence.
All of my clip settings are matching the sequence setting and the A/V Settings...
Sequence/Capture Preset:
DV NTSC 48kHz
Device Control Preset:
FireWire NTSC Basic
Video Playback: AppleFireWire NTSC (720 x 480)
Audio Playback: FireWire DV
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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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