Viewer in canvas not viewable in timeline!

I have a problem concerning the viewer in canvas. When I click in a sequnez on the timeline, the viewer is still black with no picture.
What should I do?
Thanks for the help!

Thank you gogiangio for answering this question. I just had the same problem and found the answer right away, and hitting "W" fixed it. But I'd love to know why! What caused the canvas to turn black?

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Hi, I've just downloaded the latest release 10.1.1 and now I do not see any more correctly my clips either in the canvas and in the timeline. Playing clips, they now appears with garbled images, completely unstables: I can not editing in these conditions!

Hi, I've just downloaded the latest release 10.1.1 and now I do not see any more correctly my clips either in the canvas and in the timeline. Playing clips, they now appears with garbled images, completely unstables: I can not editing in these conditions!
Anyone can help me?
Thank you, Claudio

Hi Russ, Thank you for your reply!
System Spec:
2x2.26 Ghz QUAD-CORE
12 GB RAM 1066 MHz DDR3
I've stored the library in HARD DISK which is installed inside my computer (1 TB capacity) and different from my hard disk in which I've installed all my applications (600 GB capacity).
I've installed FCP since 2001, bought FCP X in 2012: never had a problem. Yesterday I was editing my video of my last vacations (in California!) and I have updated FCP X, downloading FCP X 10.1.1: then the problem!
Strange is the fact that I've just tried to export a short project, I can see the final product quite well.
What is impossible is playing the clips within Final Cut: they are jumpimg, moving, presenting some frame in green or red ...
Everything all right in iMovie.
I've just checked the RAM: 9GB out of 12 GB is busy, could this be the problem?
Motion is very slow: for 20 sec of project, it takes minutes to play. And once again, if you finalize the projet and export it in Quicktime, you can see it correctly.
I do hope you may suggest something, I'm getting crazy!
Thank you in adavance
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I would like to change my back ground color in one frame for a logo that i am using I am able to change it on the canvas but not on the timeline?

I would like to change my back ground color in one frame for a logo that i am using I am able to change it on the canvas but not on the timeline?

Are you using FCPX? It doesn't have a canvas. Do you really mean one frame, like 1/30th of a second? Add a custom generator underneath the logo. Make it whatever color you want. Make it however short you want.

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#15 White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Shane's Stock Answer #15: White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Make sure the canvas or viewer are selected then go to VIEW>CHANNELS and set it to RGB. It might be set to ALPHA.
OR...
Click on the drop down menu above the Viewer or Canvas and make sure that you are on IMAGE or IMAGE + WIREFRAME.

White Viewer and Canvas screens in FC Studio & Not an Idiot

iMac
2.66 GHz Core Duo
2GB RAM
OS X 10.5.8
FCS 3
The viewer and canvas have apparently decided to flip to white and remain there. But first, they decided they'd rather display a strange, posterized/solarized version of whatever clip was loaded at the time.
Viewer prefs set properly to RGB
Background set to black.
Changing display prefs from millions to thousands then back again - fail.
Clean reinstall of FC Studio - fail.
QT test clip - 720x480, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Any ideas?

Viewer prefs set properly to RGB<</div>
Okay, you know that one. Good.
Background set to black. <</div>
Completely irrelevant. Not good.
Changing display prefs from millions to thousands then back again - fail. <</div>
Right, but a restart of FCP or the Mac might also be part of that debug just to rule out all possibilities.
Clean reinstall of FC Studio - fail. <</div>
Of course. Reinstalling Apple software is the LAST thing we'd suggest. Well, it's the last thing I would suggest. It is almost always a complete waste of time for a long list of reasons but mainly for only one: unlike Windows apps, Apple software just doesn't work that way.
QT test clip - 720x480, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC <</div>
Okie dokie. When you play this clip in QT what happens?
when you launch Motion and attempt to run a previously saved comp what happens?
Any ideas? < </div>
Debugging your particular issue is not going to be easy. Trying to figure out if it's FCP, QT, your graphics card, your monitor, or some other weird and obscure setting is a question, largely, of having a good feel for your system's behaviors and application inventory and history.
Stick with it, we're going to be asking you some really idiotic questions and asking you to perform some really lame tests.
bogiesan

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I know this is a stupid question but having been a composer all my life, I am not up to speed on FCP and I seem to be unable to find the answer in my manual.
I dragged a QuickTime movie to the browser window. It is 500x375 in dimension and uses a H.264, AAC codecs. (info I got from the Get Info window).
The video shows up and plays in the Viewer window but I cannot get the Canvas window nor the Timeline to open.
I have tried selecting the sequence from the list in the browser and then control clicking it and looking at the shortcut menu there. The manual says I should choose Open Timeline from this shortcut menu but that is not even a choice I have. I don't mean it is grayed out, I mean there is no Open Timeline choice on the menu.
As an alternate, the manual suggests selecting the sequence and then choosing View > Sequence in Editor. I tried this also. There is no Sequence in Editor choice under the View menu. There is a Clip in Editor choice but when I select that it simply opens the movie in Quicktime.
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the simple fact that is being eluded to here is that without an active sequence in the project (shown in the browser) there is no canvas or timeline. If you delete your sequence from the browser, the timeline and canvas will disappear, and you will have to create a new sequence, then open that sequence by double clicking it, to get those windows back. Canvas and Timeline display sequence content. No sequence, no c/t.

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Usually, when you place and IN and OUT point in either the Viewer or
Canvas/Timeline, the top left window (in the Viewer or Canvas) shows you the duration of the time between those IN and OUT points.
But sometimes it's giving an entirely different number.
Can anybody explain what it's showing when not the duration between the IN and OUT (or the entire clip length if no IN's or OUT's)?
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I'm not sure what else it would be showing you. Only thing I can think would mess it up is you have a time code break within the clip that is messing up the count.
rh

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Its a bit strange. I've loaded HDV footage into bin. When I view the footage after dragging it to the viewer window it looks great but the window selection on top reads 29%......When I drag the same clip into the Canvas window (or the timeline) the footage looks DARKER and grainyer... the selector on top of the window says 100% or fit to window.
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Thank You

Thanks I created a new timeline with easy set up and dragged the HDV clips into the new time line. Now it looks great just like the Viewer window.
Question I thought when I started a project from scratch and I set up an easy set up for the project that this would automatically create a timeline that would handle the HDV footage, But I guess not. Do Ihave to make sure the timeline is set to the proper easy set up as well as the project? In this case it appears that that is what happened.
Thanks for your help.....At least now I know how to track down the problem if I drag an HDV clip onto the timeline and it requires rendering and the picture looks crummy compared to the Viewer window.

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So, I get a shiny new 17" Powerbook (brand new 120GB/DDR2 model) - spend 2.5 hours installing FinalCut Studio and begin moving projects over.
Low and behold - I capture some video in standard DV (4.3) and all goes well. BUT, when I try to view it in either the Viewer or drop it into the timeline and look at it in the Canvass - I get audio - but the video is STUCK.
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Kind rgards

SHEESH - I found my own answer after some real experimenting.
BTW - I intend to crank this thing to 2GB - when the RAM becomes available to buy (not available, yet, tho - channel trickle is slow)
ANYWAY -
I found that external video was playing great. So I opened the same project on both computers and went through the menus ONE-BY-ONE to find the difference.
Well - I found the answer.
RECAP:
Video was not playing in viewer or canvas when scrubbed to played. Just a frozen frame.
HOWEVER, the video was playing fine externally.
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Make the timeline the active window.
Select: VIEW>EXTERNAL VIDEO>OFF - this fixed the problem. It was set to ALL FRAMES - which seemed to cause the problem.
There - answer discovered for anyone else who may run into this.
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Nope. Computer monitors colors have such a wide range that they are very unreliable. This is why it is best to hook up a TV, or better yet a properly calibrated NTSC Monitor (the latter only if you are producing professional video).
#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane's Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
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1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
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If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section
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