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Comprehensive list of Bugs & Quirks in FCP X
After using FCP X for a while I have sort of reconciled myself to the missing pro features & I think that many of them will make a comeback in a summer update as announced by Apple. For the time being FCP 7 is still my main workhorse tough I do like playing with FCP X from time to time.
My adventures with FCP X have also led me to believe that it can be pretty buggy & quirky in addition to being Feature Incomplete . So I’m thinking why dont we compile a list of bugs or quirks that we have faced with FCP X and maybe present it to Apple. After all if we dont look out for ourselves, who will ? Let me post a list of few bugs that I have faced with this current FCP X.
1. Stabilization can NOT be applied to clips in the primary storyline. They must be moved to a track above or added to a compound clip. This problem persists whether I analyze for stabilization during transcoding or later.
2. We cant add transitions to clips that are not in the primary storyline (unless they too have been added in a compound clip).
3. Sometimes the audio does not play right when the clip starts (say it will play after a pause of .5 sec) even as the playhead is on the audio clip & as a result the the audio ends abruptly when the playhead reaches the end of the clip (this seems abrupt because the audio started playing late)
4. The new audio waveforms seem tad too inaccurate for someone who might wanna line his cuts to the beats.
I hope to expand this list as more & more entries are added. Hopefully, the entire FCP X community can contribute to this thread and we can have a very comprehensive list of what doesn’t work & a temporary work around for it.
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[Rahul Duggal] “2. We cant add transitions to clips that are not in the primary storyline (unless they too have been added in a compound clip).”
Not true. You need to make the connected clips into a “Secondary” Storyline. Select the Connected clips (lasso or command click) and hit Command G. You now have a Secondary Storyline which functions very much like a track. You’ll notice that there’s only one connection at the front of the Storyline rather than for each clip. You can add transitions between them. If you change to the Positioner (hit P) you can even move them apart and you’ll get a “gap” (slug) between them as if . . . they were on a . . . track.
Yes you still have track like things in FCPX, it just doesn’t default to that behavior. It would be nice if there were an easier way to create them like a preference selection or a keystroke and/or tool which selected them rather than having to lasso or command click a bunch of clips. Tracks are still there though and you can basically deal with them much like you would the Primary Storyline (main track).
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[Rahul Duggal] “1. Stabilization can NOT be applied to clips in the primary storyline. They must be moved to a track above or added to a compound clip. This problem persists whether I analyze for stabilization during transcoding or later.”
Works just fine for me. Take a clip from my Excessive Shake Collection and add it to my Primary Storyline and open the Inspector and turn on the blue box next to Stabilization and tweak my settings.
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[Craig Seeman] “Not true. You need to make the connected clips into a “Secondary” Storyline. Select the Connected clips (lasso or command click) and hit Command G. You now have a Secondary Storyline which functions very much like a track. You’ll notice that there’s only one connection at the front of the Storyline rather than for each clip. You can add transitions between them. If you change to the Positioner (hit P) you can even move them apart and you’ll get a “gap” (slug) between them as if . . . they were on a . . . track.”
Thanks this will get me through for the time being. Few lesser clicks would have been nicer on Apple’s part though.
I somehow seem to be having this bug where I cant add stablilization to any clip (whether pre analyzed or not) that’s in the primary storyline .
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Is it just me or are the blacks in the exposure settings affecting the midtones too much?
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A couple more bugs in keywording and organization:
1. List View in the event browser: Tabbing doesn’t work. Each time I tab from one field to the next to enter information, say from Scene to Shot/Take, I have to click in the field to make it active. It appears you can’t just tab from field to field entering data.
2. List View in the event browser: If you select multiple rows and try to apply a keyword to multiple items your selection reverts to one row after you have applied the first keyword so you can’t apply multiple keywords to a selection of rows without reselecting after each one. This works fine in thumbnail view but not list view.
3. Deleting a Keyword Collection deletes the keyword from all clips in collection. For some keywords I don’t necessarily need or want a Keyword Collection cluttering up the event browser. A collection should be separate from the keywords so it could be deleted without removing the keyword from clips. The only workaround I can find is to dump the unneeded keyword collections in a folder so they can be hidden.
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“Solo” doesn’t work on video clips. On audio clips it’s fine – non-solo-ed clips grey out and the selection is solo-ed correctly. With Video clips the non-selected clips grey out in exactly the same way leaving the selected clip apparently solo-ed but all the video still plays and all the audio mutes.
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The pre and post-roll settings in the playback preferences have no effect when playing a selection or a range or when using play around.
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
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