• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Preventing the Playhead from stopping play

  Posted by Tucker Quenette on May 26, 2010 at 3:58 pm

  Hi,

  Just wondering if there is a way to prevent the playhead from stopping when I do things like turn off an audio track, click on something or zoom in and out.

  Basically I have to click on play many times to try out different things and was wondering if there is a setting or a feature I am not aware of that will keep the playhead playing until I tell it to stop.

  (on an older version of fcp- 4.5)

  Matt Lyon replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Fishback

  May 26, 2010 at 6:55 pm

  I don’t think so. It’s just one of those FCP “things.”

  John

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  Matt Lyon

  May 27, 2010 at 2:41 pm

  Hi Tucker,

  I’ve noticed that many keyboard shortcuts won’t stop the playhead, for example: zoom in/out/all, mark clip, select all, etc.

  FCP seems to stop the playhead for any mouse click, and for certain other keyboard shortcuts (toggle autoselect, for example). This is true at least in the version I’m running, 6.0.6 … I can’t recall if the behaviour is different for 4.5

  Matt Lyon
  Editor
  Toronto

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