-
Long time editor’s frustration with FCPX
-
[James Ewart] “about ten times over the years.”
Interesting.
Oddly, if I’m playing a video, then I’m actually looking at the canvas not the timeline, so I couldn’t actually care less about what the playhead is doing during that time. Only when I stop it and look back at the timeline. In which case, as I pointed out, it centers as needed. Assuming it left the window. And even if I for some reason need to scroll left or right or change the zoom-level during playback (all of which I can do while playing because it doesn’t scroll while playing), then I can, seeing that I have a Magic Mouse and/or (Magic) Trackpad and it’s not constantly trying to recenter i.e. auto-scroll.
I other words: I personally have no clue what all the fuss (or as some have said: pointless niggle) is about, other than for the sake of (IMO) useless eye-candy.
So maybe that’s Apple’s exact reasoning behind why they don’t auto-scroll? It would certainly would make perfect sense to people like me (and keep them happy at the same time). So maybe we’re the (apparently quiet) majority?
– RK
____________________________________________________
Deutsch? Hier gibt es ein umfassendes FCP X Training für dich! -
[Robin S. Kurz] “I other words: I personally have no clue what all the fuss (or as some have said: pointless niggle) is about, other than for the sake of (IMO) useless eye-candy.”
If you don’t get it then all good for you.
-
I doesn’t have to scroll… it just has to center when you stop. Because when you’re watching you canvas when you go over a sequence and you see something you don’t like, you hit the spacebar. In AVID the playhead centers at the point you stopped, at the spot where you want to make changes.
In FCPX you have to switch to HAND TOOL and find where your playhead has gone. It certainly doesn’t center for me. So I either have to zoom out a lot and zoom in again (usually ending up with the playhead somewhere far left or far right in the timeline). Pressing buttons… a lot.
Is it so strange to want your playhead in the centre when you stop playback? AVID does it, Premier does it, FCP7 did it… When I start changing things I’d like to see what clips are before and after the spot I want to change.
I would prefer to use the sideways functions of my scroll mouse, but moving left to right is extremely slow using the left-right function of the scroll wheel compared to the hand tool… (why? I don’t know).
-
[Mike Warmels] “Is it so strange to want your playhead in the centre when you stop playback? AVID does it, Premier does it, FCP7 did it… When I start changing things I’d like to see what clips are before and after the spot I want to change.
“Not quite sure what happens on your system but when I stop playback in FCPX it centres at the point I’ve stopped
-
[James Ewart] “If you don’t get it then all good for you.”
Feel free to explain which benefit I would have then.
– RK
____________________________________________________
Deutsch? Hier gibt es ein umfassendes FCP X Training für dich! -
[Mike Warmels] “I doesn’t have to scroll… it just has to center when you stop.”
It does. If it isn’t for you, then you are simply using an age old version… which would explain a lot of other things, too.
[Mike Warmels] “In FCPX you have to switch to HAND TOOL and find where your playhead has gone.”
Huh?? Even in the first versions it would stop and position the playhead on the left of the timeline if it left the window on playback, nowhere else. And even then you certainly don’t need THE HAND TOOL for scrolling. That’s what the Magic Mouse is for or even SHIFT and the scroll-wheel of whatever mouse you have. If its too slow, set it in the prefs as needed.
– RK
____________________________________________________
Deutsch? Hier gibt es ein umfassendes FCP X Training für dich! -
Well, it simply doesn’t. When I stop, it usually ends up all the way left in the timeline.
-
I don’t have or like the magic mouse. But my playhead ends up at the left. And after zooming out and in again, it usually ends up in the far right. It’s FCPX10.1.4… not really age old I would say.
-
[Mike Warmels] “I don’t have or like the magic mouse.”
But you have a mouse with scroll-wheel and a shift-key, no?
[Mike Warmels] “It’s FCPX10.1.4…”
So I was right. It’s not the most current version. Fact is, it stops in the middle with the current version. I see little point in arguing over past versions. Unless you want to complain about FCP not having multiple scopes and freeform masks, too. Or even no RED support or paste attributes because you’re using v10.0.5.
– RK
____________________________________________________
Deutsch? Hier gibt es ein umfassendes FCP X Training für dich! -
Well, three weeks ago it was the current version.
I can’t upgrade unfortunately because I have large customer who uses 10.1.4. And since they work on SAN, and that doesn’t work with Yosemite yet, upgrade causes problems. Because Apple if so professional that the FCP versions are not downward compatible… smooth.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up