Blank Video Preview

[BillBarrett]

An odd thing has happened several time to us. I drag a wav file onto the timeline and the video Play/Record windows shows a pink square the size of the video. I can play the timeline just fine but this stays a pink blob. I'm using the single display mode and changing from Play to Rec does nothing. Draging a new video to that window does not change the display from the pink box but that window now will play that video rather than the time line as evidenced by the audio being that from the video dragged in. Our only fix is to restart Edius.

Edius 5, Radeon w/512, 4 gigs, Vista64, 3 500 gig drives RAID0, 500 gig system drive.

[pjsssss]

What is your graphics card?

*edit* never mind I see you posted it.

[BillBarrett]

Video Card

More video card detail if it helps figure this out.

HIS Hightech H26XQT512NV2P Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16

[bseidner]

pink video on wav file

A wav file is audio only - right? I do not know why it is pink (kinda strange color). Is there a suite of tests we can run to check and see if the video card is performing correctly? Edius 5 required Directx9.0c and Pixel Shared 3; but I do not know how to test to insure this all works.

[GrassValley_BH]

You can run DxDiag to check DirectX functionality/installation.

Windows-R
DxDiag

The weird screen sounds like some kind of bus conflict though.
Does it only happen when there's no video on the timeline at that point, or does the pink blob replace the existing video at that point?

[BillBarrett]

DirectX Tested

I ran dxdiag and it reported no problems found for everything, system, display 1, display 2, sound 1, 2, 3, input. I ran it again in 64 bit mode and again no errors.

The two times I've seen this, I was dragging the audio file onto the timeline beyond all video so it had no video to replace. It doesn't happen often enough to do much troubleshooting. My wife had it happen a couple times and now I've seen it twice also.

As a simpler question, how do I make audio put on the timeline as Mono 1 come in not panned to the left?

Thanks for thinking for me. . .

[pjsssss]

Mono by its nature will be on one channel or the other. You can have it on both channels a variety of ways. The easiest is probably toggling the Pan on (the vol toggle on the left side of the timeline) and then dragging the light blue line to the middle. Watch your audio meters and you will see the difference.