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Timeline bug??
Hi,
Ever since upgrading to 10.01 I’ve found the timeline position bar (not sure what the technical name is!) jumping back to the beginning, disappearing and behaving strangely most of the time…. since we’ve now got OMF export thanks to magic duck I’d quite like to cut a half hour broadcast doc on it… but this timeline behaviour makes it too annoying..
Is everybody experiencing this? Is there a workaround/fix?Thanks,
JohnnySeanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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12 Replies
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Yes. I know exactly what you mean. It is a total pain to the point where I’m ready to give up with fcx. What a shoddy load of crap. How this rubbish passed muster I don’t know… there is lot’s to like, BUT…
Anyway, over a number of weeks and 80 plus hours of editing I have not found a solution, other than a restart, it may depend on whether you use the keyboard or the mouse to zoom in and out but I can not find a solution. Maybe in 4 months when apple bring out an update they might fix this.
FCPx I Motion 5 I Adobe CS5 I XDCAM EX1 I http://www.mcmm.com.au
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I have the same issue. This and my previous post are my biggest hurdles. Major time consumer for such a basic thing that’s not been a problem for years.
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Hi Simon
Yeah, I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating this is, I really want to believe that FCX is the way to go but…
Anyway maybe we need to do some tests to see if we can work out what’s going on here. It only started with since the upgrade.. what a joke.I think the skimmer has something to do with it, I will do some stuff with the skimmer off and report back.
I’m in Australia so we might have some time delays.
best of luck… sigh
FCPx I Motion 5 I Adobe CS5 I XDCAM EX1 I http://www.mcmm.com.au
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I have the same problem.
How about this one.
Cutting in the timeline, match frame to a source clip to find another shot, Apple+3 or click on the timeline to reactivate the timeline, when you hit spacebar, the source shot plays. Click on the timeline again, the source shot plays, and over again. Until I click on the timeline a few times to get it to activate.
Might be a related issue.
HSY
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Jonathan, it is a bug.
It is in one certain ZOOM-setting. The workaround is to zoom-in or -out of the timeline and the skimmer is back in place.
I have it on Lion and SNow Leopard and on all my machines. So it is not hardware related.
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Thanks for the advice… guess I’ll use 7.03 for the TV doc., pity because I’ve cut a few corporates on X and really like it…. just don’t trust it yet….
j.Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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While I have seen others post on this topic, I’ve never experienced it. There must be something different in your setup or workflow from mine.
Which is skipping, the Skimmer (the one that follows your cursor) or the Playhead (the one that stays where you click)?
Is there pattern as to when it happens?
Does it happen soon after you launch FCP X?
Does it happen after you’ve been editing for a while?
Will it go away for a while after you trash preferences?
Does it happen with every project?
Are there times when it never happens, or does it always occur?
Do you use a color correction SW for your monitors?
What format do you edit in?How is your system set up?
Mine:
Mac Pro early 2008 3,1
8 Core 3.2 GHz
24 GB RAM
ATI Radean HD 5770
Lion 10.7.2
FCP X 10.0.1 -
This problem is not a permanent bug.
It is possible to get around it very easily through either quitting and restarting FCP X and if that does not work, simply quit, trash the preferences and re-start.
The Preference Manager app from Digital Rebellion makes this a doddle. ( its a free download )
If you force quit the application a crash report is automatically sent to Apple, the technical data gathered from these reports all feeds into producing more stable future updates.
As Alban points out this problem is not related to whether you are running FCPX on Lion or Snow Leopard.
Don’t let this stop you working with FCPX.
10.0.1 is much less buggy than 10.0
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From what I can see Alban has it worked out… it seems to happen on one zoom setting and is repeatable and consistent.. It’s the playhead not the skimmer…project, settings etc. don’t seem to affect it…. I’ll try trashing my preferences…
Thanks for the help.
j.Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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I concur about it being a zoom bug, if you either zoom in a little or zoom out a little it goes away, a hell of a lot easier than restarting FCPX
Dave
Macbook Pro 17″ i7 2.2 8GB
iMac i7 2.8 16GB
FCP 7 FCPX Adobe CS 5.5
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