16:9 to 4:3 External Viewing Problems

I have some 16:9 footage I need to use in a 4:3 project. I resized the clips in Compressor and imported them into FCP. After rendering, the clips look fine in the viewer, but will not play on my external monitor. When I stop the playhead, the current frame will show up on the monitor, but when I try to play through the timeline, the screen doesn't change until I stop the playhead again; then it changes to the frame that I stopped on.

Am I missing something? I've tried refreshing AV Devices, but that did nothing. I don't like the thought of trying to finish this without being able to view the output on an external monitor. Thanks...

what codec are the 16:9 clips? what are your sequence settings? are you playing out via firewire?

Thanks for the reply...

Both the original 16:9 and the 4:3 clips are DV-NTSC, as is the sequence.

What version of final cut are you running? Do you have the canvas window on 'fit to window'? Do all the clips display properly on the monitor with the exception of the resized clips? Is your monitor connected to a capture card? Is that set up to play ntsc dv (or ntsc 8/10bit) What is your sequence frame rate (or "editing time base"?

If all that is set up, and it still doesn't play, restart your mac

All of the above is right, and I restarted, but still nothing. This is seriously bugging me.

Any more ideas?

Checklist.

1) you have adequate space in both media and mac internal drive (at least 10%).

2) All your footage is rendered (either a light green bar or blue bar)

3) Your media drive is on at least a firewire connection and you have nothing else daisy chained/connected to your firewire port. Are all media footage stored on the same drive?

4) Only the resized footage doesn't display properly.

5) You are on final cut 6 and qt 7.3 with leopard or tiger and below or final cut 5.1.4 and 7.2 and below with tiger or earlier, and running a PPC G5 or an intel power mac.

6) all footage is in ntsc DF, with the sequence set to NTSC DF, and footage does not require an form of render when inserted into the timeline.

Next, if you resized the footage in compressor, I assume you've zoomed in on the footage, since final cut conforms 16:9FHA to 4:3 on the fly, you shouldn't be needing a render.

I work on an IntelMac, 3G of Ram, FCPStudio2, Tiger 10???

I've had this same problem with clips that were not properly encoded (I'm still puzzling over a couple of incidences??) and with trying to play h264 clips off my timeline. I usually use Compressor and re-encode them to ProRes422 or (HQ.) I work with IMX and DVCPro50 (anamorphic) mostly and ProRes seems to "play well" with my other clips. I've also re-encoded to uncompressed 10 & 8-bit.

Why are you "re-sizing" in Compressor?? It's much easier to re-size in FCP. Admittedly I'm heading to the web, so going smaller not larger screen.

Andre