DP8 Clear Movie work around

[excatcher]

The Clear Movie function in DP8 is a known bug. Here's the work around: In Sequence Editor, select the movie. (You may need to click the Show/Hide Track Selector down in the lower left.) To the left of the track you'll see the Set Movie and Clear Movie buttons. Hit Clear Movie and the movie goes away without crashing DP8.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

A known bug? I've done it at least a dozen times in DP8 while working on an actual known bug (.dv files) and haven't crashed once.

[PJ]

It crashes only when you try to close movie in consolidate window.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

That would explain why I never got the crash!

[PJ]

I don't normally use consolidate window, but when I was trying DP8 first time, it automatically included new movie window there and I did have a crash. After I started using movie window outside consolidate window, there haven't be any mw related crashes. Motu also informed me about that bug, when they got my crash report (which is by the way brilliant feature).

[excatcher]

It crashes only when you try to close movie in consolidate window.

Mine was crashing both in Consolidated and also when torn off. The MOTU tech guys are all over it. They're very cool.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

The key may be the activation of the consolidated window in the first place. I have lost ALL windows and had to relaunch when I disabled the consolidated window. The key commands seemed to take but no windows appeared. NONE.

Activating the consolidated window brought that back, but resetting the pref to not have it also brought back the problem described above. Not enough time to worry about it at the moment, but the crash may be related to having the consolidated window activated in the first place, although again, I have not had that particular crash.

[excatcher]

The key may be the activation of the consolidated window in the first place. I have lost ALL windows and had to relaunch when I disabled the consolidated window. The key commands seemed to take but no windows appeared. NONE.

Activating the consolidated window brought that back, but resetting the pref to not have it also brought back the problem described above. Not enough time to worry about it at the moment, but the crash may be related to having the consolidated window activated in the first place, although again, I have not had that particular crash.

OK, thanks for checking into it...

[dix]

I was hoping this might have had something to do with my issue, but no . Quicktime movies both in and out of the CW are still unusably choppy and slow down my entire Mac's system.

I'm still hoping someone here can point to an answer for me. Tech support was unable to help. …here's what I posted elsewhere to help people help me:

The easiest way to see what I'm seeing is to launch DP8 and click around in the Finder, opening windows etc., then import a movie into DP8 and do the same maneuvers in the Finder. On my system, navigation in the Finder becomes very slow - varying with the size of the QT that DP8 is running. …and of course the video in dp is very choppy as well. Clearing the movie brings everything back to normal. No such issues in 7.

I'm thinking there's a pref that could be trashed or some setting. I've tried trashing a lot of stuff already. Any suggestions are welcome.

Also, if anyone can tell me what/where "Auto-Detect Video Mode" is that the manual refers to on page 278. That'd be great. Tech support was also baffled by that reference in the manual.

Thanks!

[Movies]

This has happened to me twice and both times, I couldn't get DP to open again. The first time was last week. I shut everything down and chilled for a little while and then when I came back, it magically opened.

The second time was fifteen minutes ago; I shut everything down and restarted, but it's still not loading. It just gets stuck after loading "wah pedal," hangs there, and then I get a standard "(not responding)."

Has this not-opening version of this problem happened to anyone else?