• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  cmd L bug?

  Posted by Phil Hastings on July 22, 2008 at 2:19 am

  Well this is driving me crazy. I am unable to use the CMD L keyboard shortcut to link and unlink items in the timeline. Keyboard shortcuts have not been changed. I’ve checked and my keyboard language and layout have not been changed. I’ve trashed preferences restarted FCP and the computer. I’m running OSX 10.4.11 and FCP 6.0.4 on a MacPro. Is this a known bug? Is anyone else experiencing this?
  I can use the Shift L keyboard shortcut to select individual items while keeping media linked as well as holding down the option key and clicking on the desired media but I’d like my CMD L keyboard shortcut to work!

  Thanks

  phil

  Phil Hastings replied 17 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  July 22, 2008 at 3:49 am

  Have you lost any other CMD + functions? Perhaps your keyboard is the problem.
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  Phil Hastings

  July 22, 2008 at 4:12 am

  Thanks Michael,
  I should have added that too. I have other cmd functions cmd v, cmd c, cmd x etc. and I tried switching out keyboards as well. This has really got me stumped.
  phil
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  Rich Krysz

  July 22, 2008 at 5:55 am

  when you use the cmd L…does it underline the clip names in the timeline? or does nothing happen at all?
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  Tom Wolsky

  July 22, 2008 at 1:17 pm

  You are the only person I’ve heard of with this problem. Maybe there’s problem with your keyboard.

  Did you try trashing your preferences?

  I’m assuming you’re linking one video and audio items that aren’t linked to other video files.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Phil Hastings

  July 22, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  Hi Tom
  I’m posting this on multiple forums and Tom asked me to give a step by step process on 2-pop so here it is for the Creative Cow crew.
  Here’s what I am doing. I highlight a video clip in the sequence by clicking on it and then holding down the Cmd key I click on an audio clip (I can click on multiple audi clips and the result is the same). I now have a video and audio clip selected. I try to use the keyboard shortcut Cmd L to link these two clips and nothing happens. There is no linking line under the clip names. I go to Modify in the menu bar and the Link option is not checked. This happens with either Cmd button on the keyboard. If I use my mouse I can link and unlink the chosen media via the Modify Menu.

  The same thing happens if I want to link and/or unlink video and audio media that was originally linked during capture So it seems to happen with all media.

  It happens in different projects including DV, HDV and ProRes 422.

  I can hold the Option key to select an individual clip within linked media, and the Shift L Keyboard shortcut also works.

  And to recap, I’ve changed keyboards, trashed preferences, and rebooted.

  Am I really not doing something right? I’ve been using FCP for seven years. I can’t believe I’m confused but stranger things have happened.

  thanks everyone
  phil

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