Musings on FCPX’s most powerful feature.

[Timothy Auld]

If you mean in FCP 7 the browser must be in list view. Add thumbnail to the browser if you don’t already have it there. Position your mouse over the thumbnail, left click and drag. It doesn’t have much functionality beyond that.

Tim

[James Ewart]

Well I don’t’ get any functionality if I don’t double click to reveal in viewer…some feature I cannot find and is very new to me in FCP7

[Timothy Auld]

As I said, what I described is the only thumbnail functionality that I know of in 7. You can’t mark in and out, you can’t double click to to open anywhere. Even the thumbnail does not hold and will return to the first frame of the clip when you release the mouse. FCP X does do some of those things with the skimmer.
Hover scrub in CS 6 too.

Tim

[James Ewart]

Sorry to be thick but could you elaborate further on the functionality you have in FCP7.

But sorry double clip on a clip in any view and it opens in the viewer…what version are you working on?

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “FCP X does do some of those things with the skimmer.
Hover scrub in CS 6 too.
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Just to be clear, FCP X does all of those things, and a lot more, with the skimmer. CS 6 Hover Scrub does lets you mark I/O points, but very imprecisely.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~

[James Ewart]

I know that but earlier you said if you right click on an icon in the browser in list view it was possible to “skim” or scrub through clips…I must have misinterpreted because this is not the case

[James Ewart]

“If you mean in FCP 7 the browser must be in list view. Add thumbnail to the browser if you don’t already have it there. Position your mouse over the thumbnail, left click and drag. It doesn’t have much functionality beyond that.”

this is what I do not understand

[Timothy Auld]

You can only scrub thumbnails in list view not in icon view. That is, as far I know that limit of what you can do with scrubbing thumbnails in the browser. Yes, you can double-click on any clip and open it in the viewer. You cannot double click on a thumbnail and expect it to do anything other than exercise your index finger. I thought this started with what you could do with thumbnails.

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

Correct. Poor phrasing on my part.

Tim

[James Ewart]

indeed