Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 220)

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Troubleshooting Digital Cinema Desktop Preview
If you experience trouble when using Digital Cinema Desktop Preview, review
the following:
 In Mac OS X System Preferences, the screen saver should be turned off (set the Start
screen saver slider to Never in the Screen Saver tab of the Desktop & Screen Saver pane).
 Digital Cinema Desktop Preview only works with AGP graphics cards. For triple
monitor configurations, you should use a PCI graphics card for your computer
display, and an AGP graphics card for any monitors you intend to use for Digital
Cinema Desktop Preview.
 Due to the refresh rate of LCD computer monitors, 1080i 60 and 720p60 material may
exhibit temporal artifacts during playback.
 Interlaced media is scanned progressively at the frame rate instead of the field rate,
Therefore, when viewing formats such as 1080i 60 or standard definition NTSC or PAL,
both fields are scanned simultaneously, which may result in interlacing artifacts.
 If you need to change your display resolution, do so prior to launching Final Cut Pro.
 LCD Cinema Displays have a longer decay period between each frame when
compared to lines being scanned on a CRT. At times, the same video image may be
visible on screen for a period of up to four to seven frames.
 Turning on Digital Cinema Desktop playback can reduce the number of real-time
effects available in your sequence. However, the real-time status of these effects is
not updated in the Effects menu or the Effects tab in the Browser).
 Refrain from clicking on the monitor upon initially enabling Digital Cinema Desktop
Preview (especially in Single User mode).
 Exposé is not supported with Digital Cinema Desktop Preview.
 Graphics files with a resolution of 1920x1200 and larger may not display properly.
 Digital Cinema Desktop Preview must be disabled when performing a Print to
Video operation.
 If you do not have a second display connected to your computer, Digital Cinema Desktop
Preview – Full Screen or Digital Cinema Desktop Preview options are not available.