Clips won’t Link in timeline?!?!??

[David Bogie]

There is a little green chainlink in the upper right corner of the timeline.

Also check the index or the online help for LINK. Wade through the links until you find something that sounds promising.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Dave Jenkins]

I had this prblem and trashed the prefs and all is fine now.

Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7

[David Bogie]

[Dave] “I had this prblem and trashed the prefs and all is fine now.”

That’s because the default setting for the Link button is ON. You must have inadvertently hit the button or initiated the keybard shorty.

BTW: I have never trashed my prefs. Never.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Dave Jenkins]

So why do the clips remained underlined when linked selection is turned off? Where as when you select a clip and use unlink from the modify menu the underline goes away.

Really, NEVER ever trashed your prefs?

[bogiesan] “That’s because the default setting for the Link button is ON. You must have inadvertently hit the button or initiated the keybard shorty.

BTW: I have never trashed my prefs. Never. “

Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7

[Debe]

Trashing Prefs is really just a fast way to solve many issues without troubleshooting.

But what ends up happening is that some very simple fixes end up going by unknown because trashing prefs is sort of a ultra wide problem solving technique that doesn’t tell you what’s really wrong.

I trash prefs if there’s a client in the room when something goes wonky on FCP because the client isn’t paying me to troubleshoot my system, They’re paying me to edit. I rarely do it when I’m unsupervised because I want and need to know what I did to make FCP act up. I’ve gone months and months and months without trashing prefs.

But, sometimes, I can’t find the problem, and I do trash my preferences. I’ve rebuilt my Avid User Prefs file several times over the years as well. Any computer file can get corrupted, especially one that is accessed as much as a Preferences file.

debe

[Bret Williams]

The clip is linked if it is underlined. Linked clips are completely different from the concept of linked selection. The little chain stands for linked selection. Meaning that selecting one portion of a linked clip, also selects the other portion. When it is on, holding down option temporarily turns it off. When it is off, option temporarily turns it on.

Isn’t this stuff covered in the first chapter of the manual or something? The hot key is right there in the menu somewhere.

I’ve never trashed my prefs either. Been using FCP since version 1.2 and never had the need. Problems were never a corrupted preferences file.

[Dave Jenkins]

[Bret Williams] “Isn’t this stuff covered in the first chapter of the manual or something? The hot key is right there in the menu somewhere. “

We use the option key all the time to temporarily unlink clips. I went through the whole pdf manual and it talks about Linked Selection. It doesn’t explain the difference between Linked and Linked Selection. It seem odd there is no indicator when using Linked Selection, the clips remain underlined yet the link is broken.

(The clip is linked if it is underlined. Linked clips are completely different from the concept of linked selection.)

Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7

[Mauryd]

Thanks to all of your help & suggestions.

I should have mentioned that the “link/unlink” button in the upper right corner of the timeline had no effect.

But what fixed it is trashing the prefs. I should have tried it before posting.

It’s very nice that some of you have never had to trash prefs, and I do aspire to live such a chaste and blessed life as yourselves, but both Apple FCP tech support people and AJA/io tech support people have suggested that technique in the past for misc. problems and it HAS worked. It’s certainly not something I like to do since I have to rebuild custom settings, but as debe says, sometimes I just have get back to editing ASAP and can’t afford the time to thoroughly troubleshoot.

[Oscar Perez]

Ahhhh! Thank you. I won’t be forgetting that one any time soon.