• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  can’t center work area in Motion tab

  Posted by Paul Dougherty on March 15, 2011 at 5:59 pm

  in FCP6 I’m struggling to center the work area in the Motion tab after I load a clip from the TL that is a hi-rez img I want to do a move on. The reason I want the work area centered (not flush left) is that I generally want to move a keyframe *before* the clip starts so in the seq/TL the movement is in progress when we 1st see it.

  I’ve struggled to repo & ctr this “work area” that represents the clip in the TL but find it’s only getting harder to center, so that I’m able to see non-highlighted area *before* the clip. Yet it insists on keeping the work area flush to the parameter controls. Please help this is driving me nuts!

  Thanks,

  Paul

  Paul Dougherty replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Gillespie

  March 15, 2011 at 6:34 pm

  Hi Paul,

  I’m not exactly sure what your problem is with the ‘center-ing’ of the motion clips?
  However, if you want a clip to start the motion before you cut to the clip you need to lengthen the clip and just adjust when you cut to it from the timeline. I do this often and depending on how I have my timeline, it can be a little pain. Sometime you’ll need to either change the opacity of the previous clip to see how your motion starts. Or you can turn off the track, trim the clip, etc.

  FWIW,

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production
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  Paul Dougherty

  March 26, 2011 at 5:06 pm

  Thanks Todd, figured it out. when I edit in an image file FCP normally creates an in & out (10 sec dur) in the center of the (source) clip but for reasons that are unclear, this img that was giving me a hard time had an “in” set right at the very beginning so there was no handle to sent a keyframe earlier than the In (in the Motion tab)

  The other anomaly is that images normally auto-size to fill the screen, but occasionally they don’t or are stretched incorrectly.

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