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Getting rid of the annoying zoom function
Hello All,
Here’s a little UI question for y’all. Both the Canvas and Source windows (as we know) have the option via a pull-down above the viewing area to reduce or enlarge the viewing window’s size by a percentage. There are also options for “Fit All” and “Fit to Window” — the latter being IMHO the most useful. Now, there may be some who find it necessary to zoom into a picture at 800%, I however am always working at the Fit to Window setting. Unfortunately, due to the way that FCP’s UI works — whichever pane is highlighted is the one you’re affecting — I am constantly, accidentally zooming in on the canvas.
It goes like this: I mark my clip in the source window and then either click the overwrite button on the canvas or hit F10. This cuts my marked clip into the timeline BUT leaves the Canvas as the active window, not the Timeline. I will then invariably start hitting “Apple +” to zoom in on the timeline, but because the canvas is the active window it zooms in on the viewer in the canvas, zooming me in to something like 6 billion percent. Being someone who does as much as possible without taking my fingers off the keyboard, it’s annoying when I have to stop, grab the mouse, click on the drop-down on the canvas, and set the view back to Fit To Window.
I know this is very knit-picky, but I figured what the hell… Has anyone else run into this situation as part of their working habits and found it as annoying as me? I’m wondering if there is anyway to turn off that pull-down or lock the canvas to a certain view (Fit to Window thank you very much)?
Thanks a bunch!
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3 Replies
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Just immediately hit “Shift z”.
That’s “fit to Window”
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And then cmd+3 to go to timeline. I think that’s right…
You really don’t understand why someone would want to zoom in on the canvas? Precise placement of text, cropping, masking (garbage matte), that sort of stuff.
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why not just use “Option +” and “Option -” instead … this always zooms in on the timeline regardless of the active window,
also “Q” toggles between Viewer and Canvas/Timeline windows
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