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FCPX 10.3 Bugs
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The white screen sounds like more than a FCPX issue. I use dual screens when on my laptop and flip between single and dual and and have never seen that, or have crashing/freezing issues. I’d double check to see if all your plugins/Motion templates are updated and compatible.
[Taylor Martyn] “The audio meters are huge. So I can slim them down, but when I quit the app and reopen, they are big again.”
Yes. I would send feedback to Apple about that.
[Taylor Martyn] ” I’m annoyed that I cannot slide my timeline to be the full width of the screen. the only way to do that is to turn off the inspector. I wish I could have the inspector only be the top half, giving room for the timeline.”
Double click the top of the inspector or map a key to “Toggle Inspector Height” to do just what you’re asking.
[Taylor Martyn] “So I grabbed the slider between the to to make the browser larger, it slid over, but when I released the mouse, it bounced back over. Tried a few times with the same result.”
Again, this sounds like more than an FCPX issue. At the very least I’d trash your preferences and library caches. If that doesn’t do anything, I’d delete FCPX and reinstall, if that doesn’t do anything, I’d create a new admin user and test FCPX to see if you are still having the same issues. If the new user works, then there is most likely a user problem. If none of that works, I’d reload the system from scratch, but that is the last thing to try. Here’s a guide: https://support.apple.com/kb/TS4053
[Taylor Martyn] “FCPx still has a LONG way to go.”
It’s come a long way.
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jeremy, thanks for all the feedback. I updated my FxFactory plugin and that is maybe helping a bit.
Right now I have everything viewable on my primary display and the viewer is full screen on my secondary monitor. In the Window menu, the options for secondary are greyed out. I also don’t know how to get rid of the viewer now from my primary display. It’s not listed as an option in the menu. Double clicking the top bar does nothing.
The lack intuitiveness of this layout is killing me.
I used the quick key to hide the app, the first thing that happened was the secondary screen went white, after 3 seconds, the app ‘hid.’
I do also have Magic Bullet Looks installed, but around 2 versions old. They told me they know of no known issues. Not sure I’m ready to spring for the upgrade costs.
Sliding around the browser width is working okay now. It’s not bouncing back. Now, if I could just remove the viewer on my main display…
Yes, FXPx has come a long way. I used the original x version to cut a feature. WHAT A PAIN. I pushed my team to use Premiere, but I lost out. And we all paid for it in the ensuing years. I’ve been using Premiere since 1996 and went to FCP3 when Adobe had ditched Apple for a bit. I’m slowly transitioning back to Premiere. Apple is still playing catch up and can’t even do basic things like window layout that it handled just fine before the jump to X. It’s great for cutting short, quick things, but outside of that, I still can’t depend on it.
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[Taylor Martyn] “Right now I have everything viewable on my primary display and the viewer is full screen on my secondary monitor. In the Window menu, the options for secondary are greyed out. I also don’t know how to get rid of the viewer now from my primary display. It’s not listed as an option in the menu. Double clicking the top bar does nothing.”
If the options are grayed out, something is wrong. Have you trashed your preferences yet? Easiest way to is to hold option-command and launch FCPX.
What computer are you using and what kind of monitor?
Don’t double click the top bar, double click the top of the inspector, right here:
[Taylor Martyn] “I do also have Magic Bullet Looks installed, but around 2 versions old. They told me they know of no known issues. Not sure I’m ready to spring for the upgrade costs.
“Delete it and see if it helps. If it does, then you know that it will be worth the cost of upgrading.
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[Rob Moragas] “1. Playback is terrible. Where as before on 10.2.3 I had no issues playing back, now it can’t even play in real time through a dissolve.
2. slow and clunky moving around the timeline…
3. unresponsive to many clicks and commands when trying to turn many things on and off. Often I have to repeat the command two or three times to do anything.”Can’t confirm a single one of those. And that with it running on over 30 Macs at a school and several at home. Quite the opposite in fact. If anything, performance has improved considerably. Ergo: if you’re seeing something else, it’s not an FCP X issue.
[Rob Moragas] “4. The dotted unrendered bar is horrible.”
How so? It serves the exact same purpose of the previous bar and offers the exact same information, just far less dominant and without color. Which coincides completely with the whole point of the GUI redesign. If anything, just muscle memory is a slowdown. Not the interface itself.
[Rob Moragas] “5. Unnecessarily moving things around on the interface with really no benefit to the user.”
Couldn’t agree less. Aside from maybe losing the buttons for favorites and rejections and getting the imho completely useless overwrite button instead, I find the logic of the GUI has improved exponentially. YMMV.
– RK
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How? I can’t figure out this Angles menu…
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To change the audio configuration for a clip in FCPX 10.3, go in through the Angle Editor. Look at the top left of each camera or audio track. To the right of the angle name is a little white down-arrow. Click it to open a dialog box. Select All clips in the angle. Now look at the Inspector on the right side of the screen you will see that you now have access to the familiar audio configuration sections. Do this “extra” step for every track you wish to change.
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I am having a heck of a time with dragging the bounds of connected clips in 10.3. Typically this will happen in the “A” tool, not the trim tool. I grab the edge of the clip (with or without transition), start moving it, and BOOM, everything goes away with this report (excerpted):
Application Specific Information:
Do not invoke endTimelineHandlerTransaction without a corresponding begin.
draggingEntered – calling _cleanupDraggingEnded before setting up
_cleanupDraggingEnded – calling _removeDraggingEndedMonitor
draggingEntered – calling _beginWorkaroundForMissingDraggingEndedBug
draggingEnded – calling _removeDraggingEndedMonitor
_removeDraggingEndedMonitor – cleaning up _draggingEndedEventMonitor
draggingEnded – calling _endWorkaroundForMissingDraggingEndedBug-[FFAnchoredTimelineModule endTimelineHandlerTransaction:commit:error:], /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/Flexo/Flexo-29646.4.1/framework/providers/FFSequenceProvider/FFAnchoredTimelineModule_DataSource.m:834
abort() calledHere’s the full crash report: 10863_finalcutpro20161209141515macbookpro.crash.zip
I assume that if Apple has a workaround in the code for a dragging bug this is a known issue? It’s hard to reproduce consistently because typically I need to work for a period of time before this happens. Tried trashing the cache and prefs, and while it seems to help, it always comes back. I typically have about 3-4 crashes like this a day.
Any advice appreciated.
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Hi Oliver,
It appears FCPX 10.3 will no longer allow me to roundtrip a JPEG or PNG with Photoshop. I used to be able to reveal the image in the finder open it in Photoshop make a color change or adjustment to said file save/replace it and it would repopulate with the changes applied. Now I have to restart FCPX 10.3 for the changes to take effect. The obvious work around is to redo it in Photoshop and reimport. Or I have to import as a PSD file which is much heavier than a PNG and most times I don’t need to work with the image layers within FCPX. Just wondering if anyone has used this workflow and has had the same experience. Thank you!
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“1. Occasionally the playhead loses focus on which is the active pane in dual display set-ups. You’ll be in the timeline and it quits updating video on the viewer as you skim. That’s because focus has shifted to the browser. Click into the browser and back into the timeline to refresh. This is an old bug, BTW.”
Has anyone found a way to get rid of this bug? It’s happening very often. Since you mentioned the problem being dual display set-ups, is there a way to reconfigure something to make it so the playhead stops losing focus?
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After working with 10.3 for some time, have found following bugs recurring.
Just occasionally the pop-up data balloons on moving clips or adjusting audio volume etc will go blank and gove no info.
Quite often, some of my keyboard short-cuts just stop working – eg Command-tilda no longer hides browser, and Shift-? no longer plays round a point. Quitting and opening gets them back, but it happens quite a lot and I use these often, so quite annoying.
Sometimes clip names in browser just disappear – just shows a load of blanks – most often come back by clicking around.
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