A decent-sized timecode display in FCP

[Martin Baker]

That’s exactly what’s required Walter. Everyone go here now!

https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

and let’s clock up a few feature requests for it.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Chris Poisson]

Amen Brother Martin!

[Peter Mcauley]

While we’re on the timecode display topic, how about timecode displays that don’t disable while in capture or edit to tape modes. I would like to make notes while capturing not to mention during edit to tape I always want to know where the deck is.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.02
Kona 2 v1.2 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Mark Burton]

I thought I had a decent temp solution to this short coming when I found:
https://www.artissoftware.com/screentools/loupe.html

It allows you to lock to a zoomed area of the screen and display it on a floating window. Unfortunately due to the amount you need to zoom in the resulting display is just too pixelated to read clearly.

I think even if it had some clever anti-aliasing it would still be too blurry. Shame.

Mark

[Ben Holmes]

Nice try with the zoom-window thing. You can see for yourselves how bad that looks by using the screen zoom functions in the “universal access” section of user preferences.

I suppose I now know once and for all that it can’t be done yet. Doesn’t it seem strange how Apple have ignored this in only FCP – Timecode is pretty important in pro video, perhaps more so than in music production (such as Logic).

Polite applause all round for effort anyway – thanks to everyone for trying.

Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.
FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists.