No video in Logic 8

I've been working on a project in Logic 8 which involves syncing music to video. I converted the video as an mp4 and imported it into Logic and initially it was working fine. However, about halfway into this project and for no apparent reason, the video doesn't seem to play. When i start the sequencer, the video screen remains blank. I've tried re-importing the video into Logic as well as converting the video into a smaller sizes and different formats yet still I can't seem to get any picture. This has happened on both my G5 and my macbook and it's driving me crazy! Can anyone help me please?

It's possible you inadvertently gave the movie an incorrect start point. I can't remember if it's a preference or a song setting, but there is an item called "movie". Here you can change the movie start point. For instance, if the movie has a :10 countdown before the actual video portion you are working on starts, but you want this portion of the movie to start at bar 1, beat one, you are able to set the movie to start :10 into the video thereby eliminating the :10 countdown. You must also check the synchronization start time. I always set mine to start at 01:00:00:00, or exactly 1 hour, zero minutes, zero seconds, zero frames. This is dead on the one hour border. In this example you would set your movie to start 00:59:50:00, or :10 before the 1 hour border. The important thing to know is that you can set your movie to start well after your sequence. Your sync setting could be set to 01:00:00:00 but your movie could be set to 01:01:00:00. In this example, your movie would not start at all, (and probably be blank) for the first minute of the sequence. More extreme settings are possible also. So, make sure your synchronization start time is the same as your movie start time UNLESS you want an offset, like eliminating the video countdown so the program starts at bar 1, beat one. I do this all the time. I hope this helps. I tried not to get too complicated.
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