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How do you know what you’re undo-ing?
Sometimes I hit shortcut keys by mistake and nothing apparently happens. But then I’m reluctant to undo the action because I’m not sure if that action was undo-able or if I will actually undo a previous valid action. How do you know what action you’re undoing?
In Photoshop and Premiere, they have a history menu so you can see all your past actions. Even in Motion, if you go to the edit menu, you can see the last action you can undo. Is there something like this in FCP? How do you deal with accidental keystrokes?
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FCP’s undo history is stored in RAM — unfortunately its not the RAM in your computer, it the RAM between our ears. Unlike the RAM in our computers you don’t even have to turn off the machine to lose what’s stored in our internal RAM.
The fact is Undo as its implemented in FCP is a crying shame. Another of those pidly things that could, if fixed, elevate FCP to a whole different level that would make it so very elegant.
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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Keep in mind, if you have more than one sequence open, the undo can apply to a different sequence than you are working on….ugh.
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