Okay

I tried my other machine this week with a similar setup as described above and noticed that the tearing I mentioned was happening. It is intermittent and seems the worst when I change files. It seemed to be happening whether I was zoomed in or not.

Is it possibly the transparency causing this or the use of the cylinder in visualfx?

My output was as follows:

dual outputs
-layers 1 & 4 playing a jumpback with layer 4 using "Use layer"
-layers 2 & 5 playing a still from an animation file with transparency and mapped onto the cylinder 4 x to create a slow scroll across screen. Layer 5 is also using "Use Layer"
-layers 3 & 6 with a still of a logo from an animation file with transparency not moving just split over the 2 outputs to give a logo centre screen.

The tearing is happening on Layers 1 & 4. I can't verify, because I am using "Use Layer", whether layer 4 is actually tearing or just Layer 1 i.e. whether it is the output of the card or the playback of the file itself.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Toby