Sunday, October 11, 2009

Snow Leopard and Desktop Preview - Main

A few people (including me) have noticed quite dramatic artifacts when playing a project using Desktop Preview - Main under snow leopard. The artifacts look like quickly flickering horizontal lines which do not hold their positions when you stop and then start playback again.

I'm not sure what the exact combination of things causes the artifacts but it's something that appears for some people when under 10.6.1 but doesn't when booted from 10.5.8. Using either FCP6 or 7 doesn't seem to matter, it seems to be related to Snow Leopard.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

It is also true when using second monitor in a "Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Full Screen" mode. RAW mode appears to be ok. Very annoying...

Walker Ferox said...

And there are beginning to be some threads at apple discussions about it as well.