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Browser Clip Appearance reverts to default on every launch of FCP X
I prefer to have my clips display in the browser as a single icon regardless of their length and have set them accordingly.
However, each time I launch FCP X they have reverted to the default setting and are extremely stretched out.
This has been going on for years and currently I have a 2012 Mac mini (Catalina) and a 2017 27″ iMac (Monterey) both demonstrating the problem.
I have searched the web and other forums but have not found a solution.
The cleverest suggestion was to create a Custom Workspace but that did not work.
Has anyone here found a solution?
This is how the settings look whenever FCP is launched.
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That’s the way FCPX has always been. It rarely remembers (if ever) your last window layout. What a royal PITA to have to deal with this after 12 years of development.
Shift-Z is your friend. It is “fit to window” at the macOS level, so it works everywhere, including inside FCPX. Use it in the timeline and browser and viewer. For what you’re doing, it’ll convert the long film strips into thumbnails right away.
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Thanks for the Shift-Z information. I knew about using it in the timeline but not in the browser.
A strange thing just happened. I launched FCP and to my surprise all the long clips were small single icons. I couldn’t believe it so I quit and launched several times more and each time the single icons were there.
Eventually I launched again and they were spread out so I was able to verify that Shift-Z did work.
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I wonder how often you do your “monthly maintenance”
and if that has anything to do with it.
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What “monthly maintenance” are you referring to?
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