• Apple Final Cut Pro

  change duration not working?

  Posted by Kyrina Bluerose on November 2, 2018 at 9:13 am

  selecting a clip
  yellow selection box
  ctrl+d
  or right-click select change duration
  not working. not even turning purple, won’t accept numbers.

  I can trim, and I can ctr+opt+r and enter number there but that takes longer…

  any fixes?

  Thanks!

  Kyrina Bluerose replied 7 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Jeremy Garchow

  November 3, 2018 at 5:12 pm

  How are you selecting the clip? Use ‘c’ and not ‘x’ to select a clip
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  Kyrina Bluerose

  November 3, 2018 at 8:56 pm

  selecting clip in timeline – I usually just click on it.

  it worked before I updated and now it doesn’t.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  November 3, 2018 at 9:03 pm

  First, see if you have some sort of custom keyboard preset selected (under Final Cut Pro > Commands menu).

  Check to see if control-d is mapped to something else (or not mapped to Change Duration)

  If that doesn’t work, try trashing your preferences by quitting FCPX, and then hold command-option while you launch FCPX.
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  Kyrina Bluerose

  November 4, 2018 at 4:16 am

  Thanks!

  Brand new FCPX; not sure why it didn’t work but that fixed it. Can’t imagine how much more slowly the work would go without control d.

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