Missing editing buttons in Video editing window

[Tim Jones]

In the new version of FCP X, I believe that you simply grab the blue handles and drag them horizontally past the mid-point.

They’re really trying to remove unnecessary controls from the screen.

Tim
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[John Smith]

I had a feeling someone was gonna say something like that, I had tried doing that previously but couldn’t get it to work, think I probably had wrong edit type selected. Seems until your certain something should workout the way your trying it, you often have trouble making these things happen…. I do generally find Apples desire to remove buttons and to surreptitiously hide functions from plain sight is more of a pain in the ass than helpful. Too many times it becomes incredibly irritating when you can’t remember where something has now been hidden. Fine if you only ever use a small handful of applications, but if you use all manner of audio, video, and animation packages, and sometimes do not use one of them for a month or so it becomes a tireless round of searching… I think greater visibility should be concentrated on rather than less buttons. They seem to have taken to making the Applications more bulky in sense of taking more of the screen space up with larger sliders and buttons, but lessening the clutter. I’d rather more buttons and smaller objects/sliders etc. The working area seems to keep diminishing. I find with Final Cut Pro X I have a lot of trouble getting a good view of an entire project when any complexity develops. Now seems to be the same with Logic Pro X, the mixers and surrounding nobs and sliders are all much larger and the work space decreased… Logic 9’s interface really didn’t need altering very much, if at all…. anyway ramble ramble!

Thanks for that, problem solved…

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[John Smith]

I might add also, if anyone is interested or not I know not! ;p

But why can’t Apple have both functions, the drag option is great, but why not have the buttons as well? It’s not like they free up space for anything, there’s just empty space where there was once buttons. Same as with the Save As feature being removed, there was no reason why they couldn’t have a system where Save As was present as well as the newer functions, as despite the cries and arrogant assertion from Apple that they have removed the need for Save As, it’s clearly not the case, there is a call for both functions. The new save function is great (particularity in FCPX), but really “Save As” still has a simplicity of use and functionality that is lost in some circumstances. And curiously enough they have yet to integrate the same save functions into Logic Pro, I am glad “Save As” exists still there as it’s much more apart of my work flow, but the FCPX system of saving would have been a very good addition (but not a replacement).

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[Dave Gage]

[John Smith] “Mavericks OS X 10.9 DP7 (yes risky running a BETA system, but Mountain Lion is awful, and the performance of Mavericks is a lot better than Lion (and M’Lion))”

John,

If you have minute, could you expand on this? I haven’t read any reviews yet of anyone running 10.9 Betas. I have 10.8.4 on a partition, but for numerous reasons, I’m still getting my work done in 10.6.8. Although, I will have to break down and move to Mountain Lion or Mavericks within the next couple of months. I have not found any substantial advantages for what I do in Lion or Mountain Lion.

Thanks,
Dave

[Tim Jones]

I also run Mavericks on a number of test systems (including my Retina MBP) and I will say that Mavericks is to current OS X what 10.4 was to old OS X. The performance and stability are already head and shoulders above 10.8 and the new features are actually features that you can use and recognize. I also love that a full screen app doesn’t eat up all 3 monitors, but just the one it’s on.

Tim
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[Jeremy Garchow]

The buttons are still there, they are just in a drop down menu.

You can also right click on the Browser and choose “Distort” or hit command-shift-d. Shift-C for crop. Shift-T to transform.

Much faster than a button.

There’s also a “Flipped” filter.

Jeremy

[Dave Gage]

[Tim Jones] “Mavericks is to current OS X what 10.4 was to old OS X”

Tim,

That’s good to hear. Although I’ve got ML going for some tasks and apps, I may go ahead and wait another month or two for Mavericks and then make the big move with a clean install. I’m slowly but surely replacing the old legacy software.

I use the Apple Address Book all day long because I use it less as an address book and more as an easily searchable database for everything is my life. I had planned to buy a 3rd party app to give me the function and look of the 10.6.8, but hopefully the Mavericks version is a bit more usable for my purposes.

Thanks,
Dave

[David Eaks]

“Save as” has simply been renamed “duplicate project”. ; )

Performance of FCPX on Mavericks discussion is nearly non-existent on the Apple Dev Forums (though its been a while since I looked). Sure would like it if we could get a bunch of COWs over there testing and discussing! Even if Mavericks will be out relatively soon, at least just to get the ball rolling for future releases.

[Mac Mcdougal]

I have exactly the same issue. Did anyone ever help you? I got the “Apple decided to remove unimportant buttons” from that one user, and the “They’re in a dropdown menu” from another (BTW, I can find no drop down with the “flip horizontal” function that used to be there for all to see, gosh darn it). Please let me know if anyone said anything even approaching usefulness.

[John Smith]

Yes… my problem was solved.. there is a comment above somewhere that does state the reason.. assuming you are having this problem for the same reasoning that is. Apple removed some of the buttons and changed the way you select those options in later releases, so if your looking at help videos that were created on older versions of FCPX then buttons will show up that are no longer present.

You’ll notice there is a little arrow on the single left-hand button on the less buttoned newer fcpx version, if you click on that you can select options that give you the same functionality. Play around with that for awhile and I am sure you’ll work it all out.

Hopefully you’ll find that solves the problem for you also… it’s definitely a strange development as it makes the process longer and slightly less simple, but there we have it, Apple has become more about hiding buttons and trying to appear less complex, whilst in reality becoming much less user friendly and requiring the user to develop higher levels of proficiency with the software in order to perform the simplest of tasks.. complexity for the sake of appearing sleeker and simpler. so many contradictions :s

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