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FCP5 Digitize Tool
I’ve noticed in the field where you type the description of a clip (or clip name), in the digitize tool, is a little “wonky.” It seems as if they (Apple) might have missed something in their reprogramming of the tool. Selecting part of the name of the clip, and retyping, is extremely difficult and half the time, you end up erasing everything you had already typed.
When I’m loading footage, a lot of the information stays the same from clip to clip and having to retype everything for each clip I log takes up a lot of time.
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I always keep open the “Stickies” program (“Post -It notes”) on the Mac desktop and am constantly using “Copy & Paste” to transfer to it multi-use words and phrases from other text-important software.
It saves having to re-type many items that get “lost” or otherwise unavailable.
Just copy from one window to the other (and back).I also use Stickies for spell-checking documents that don’t HAVE built-in spell-check (like THIS very forum!)
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That’s been an annoyance ever since we upgraded all our system to FCP 5. The text window for Reel, Name etc seems to erase the contents on the slightest modification. There is a method to getting it work properly, by using the arrow key, but it’s definitely busted since v.4.5.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
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