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Lots of stray single frames left over after edits in magnetic timeline
Edited my first project on FCPX today. One thing I noticed toward the end was many, many stray single frames that had been divided from their clip by an edit. Does that make sense? I would drag X clip to go between clips Y and Z… And very often, instead of clip X fitting perfectly between the other two, one frame of Y would get sheared off and be stuck next to clip Z. I would only notice this later, usually. It seems to have happened a LOT. pretty sure it happened with pasting clips in as well as dragging.
In FCP7 I knew how this happened… It meant I’d had my insert point in the wrong place. Isn’t FCPX supposed to position these cuts automatically so there wouldn’t be any of these stray frames that are so hard to clean up?
Associated with this, often when I was going in to cut out these stragglers, I’d also find a single frame of black. Why would that be?
Is there anything I can do about this?
Thanks in advance.
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Seems like you used a lot the Position tool instead of Select tool.
The Position tool basically turns off the magnetic timeline which would have prevented the incidents to happen. -
Also in X, editing is easier if you learn about the different “automatic” edit modes.
Use the up and down arrows to navigate your position indicator to any current edit where you want to insert or append a shot. Then a single keystroke like W for insert the shot at the playhead, D for overwrite, Q for connect a clip above the current timeline (cutaway) or E (“attach this clip at the END of my timeline”) are easy ways to build a basic rough edit.
Using this system you seldom have to use your mouse or get a shot placed at the wrong location.
The up and down arrows are the navigation keys. They let you get close, then the forward and back keys let you fine tune the playhead position. They move the playhead one frame forward or back – but if you use them with the shift key – they jump things in 5 frame increments for faster positioning.
X is built for keyboard fast editing more than mouse editing, IMO. Both work, but the keys are much, much quicker and more precise.
FWIW.
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Very useful to know, thanks.
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I am having the same issues all of a sudden. I’ve been using FCPX for a few months without a problem and all of a sudden i keep getting black frames in-between clips. It happens if i move clips around within the timeline and it makes no difference weather the magnetic timeline is activated or not. The frames cannot be deleted all of the time either which makes it especially frustrating. I also have some random single frames from clips that will pop up in-between regular clips.
Another issue is that the ‘E’ and ‘W’ shortcuts for inserting clips dont always work. IE the ‘E’ will place the new clip in second last place in the timeline instead of at the end and the ‘W’ wont work at all.
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This has just started happening for me, also out of the blue. Did you (or anyone else) find a fix for this issue?
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This was happening to me a lot on a really big project i was working on but havent had the issue lately. Think just installing the latest version must have fixed it.
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