Help! Preview Window Won't Work

CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/1/2006, 7:54 PM
Today I decided to make a slide show. For some reason, the preview window won't work when I'm trying to preview my project.

The preview window works fine under the explorer tab, works fine under the project tab, works find when I click and drag to make it longer on the video track, but won't preview when I select the play button. I checked to see if the track was muted, it wasn't. I checked to see if the preview on external monitor was accidently on, it wasn't. I opened up a previous project and the preview window worked great. It's only on new projects and it just started today. The pictures I'm using are not large either. I even compared every setting to my previous projects that work and they are all the same. I can't figure this out.



I have movie studio platinum 6 + DVD
Help!

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jetdv wrote on 1/1/2006, 8:21 PM
I have movie studio platinum 6 + DVD

You might want to ask in the Movie Studio forum

You might also want to try this

Look under the Options menu and see if "Mute All Video" has been selected.
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/1/2006, 8:34 PM
I'll post there. I did check and mute all video wasn't selected.
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/1/2006, 8:38 PM
Right Click in the Preview window, choose "Preview Device Preferences."
Be sure the "Recompress Edited Frames" is checked. If it's not, anything that isn't straight DV won't display.
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/1/2006, 8:45 PM
It was checked. I even rebooted my computer but that didn't work either.
jrazz wrote on 1/1/2006, 10:11 PM
It's a long shot, but make sure you don't have an extra video track up above the picture track with a black generated media file on it. I know this might not be the case, but I have done similar things, forgot it was there and wondered why I wasn't getting the results that were normal.

j razz

Edit: Nevermind, you said that it showed unless you hit play. Maybe I should read more thoroughly before I post :)
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/1/2006, 10:42 PM
I thought of that too but there's nothing on any tracks above (or below) my pictures.
Jøran Toresen wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:01 AM
Maybe you have set the Level slider to 0 and not 100? It’s located to the left on the track.

Joran
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:07 AM
What format are your pictures?
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:10 AM
jpegs and they are sized correctly.
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:12 AM
My Level slider is at 100%
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:12 AM
Size shouldn't matter.
Send me your project, and I'll see what I can find.

dse at sundancemediagroup dot com

Just send the .vf file. I'll substitute my own stills


Jøran Toresen wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:22 AM
Maybe you have set one track to Solo?

Joran
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:28 AM
Thanks DSE, I just emailed it to you.
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:29 AM
Hi Joran,
It's not set to solo.
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:38 AM
The problem is that you have all the video tracks set to Mask mode rather than Alpha mode. With nothing above to act as a mask, you have nothing that allows the image to show thru.
Put text on an upper track without changing the mode, you'll see you pictures inside the text.
CraftyCre8tor wrote on 1/2/2006, 12:51 AM
Success at last!

Thank you to everyone who tried to figure out my problem.

DSE came up with the solution. I had already tried to set my track mode to source alpha but didn't think to check all the video & text tracks since they weren't being used. Once I changed all the tracks to source alpha my preview appeared!

Thank you again. It's great to be part of such a great community!