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Not tracking cursor between windows during skimming
This is an age old problem that still hasn’t been fixed. When you have skimming enabled and go back and forth between the event browser and the timeline, the viewer focus does not track with where the mouse is. Often it stays stuck in the event. Today I had a project where it NEVER correctly tracked. To get back to the timeline, I had to first click into the viewer pane and then click into the timeline area for it to react correctly.
Dual displays. Events on secondary display. OS 10.9.2, FCP X 10.1.1. 8-core Mac Pro tower.
Reported to Apple Feedback… AGAIN.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Do you have your event viewer open? I keep mine open (even though it’s fairly useless) and that has cut down on a lot of the stuck focus issues for me. I often wonder if it’s related to using dual screens, and/or list views.
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[John Young] “Do you have your event viewer open?”
No. In the past, this didn’t seem to make much difference, but I’ll see if it affects this one.
[John Young] ” I often wonder if it’s related to using dual screens, and/or list views”
Maybe. Although I see it with single displays as well.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
[Oliver Peters] “[John Young] “Do you have your event viewer open?”
No. In the past, this didn’t seem to make much difference, but I’ll see if it affects this one.”I just checked and it does seem to help. Thanks.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
I’ve noticed if you transform the video (scale, crop, motion, distort, etc) and forget to actually hit the “Done” button, it causes skimmer issues.
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The skimmer doesn’t function at all in those modes. So, yep. I’d call that an issue.
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The skimmer doesn’t work while in those modes but dragging the playhead and clip skimming do. To quickly exit the transform/crop modes just hit the “A” key or any of the other cursor tool key shortcuts. Easier that clicking on “done”.
As far as the focus not shifting from the event to the timeline I just hit Cmd 3 followed by Cmd 2. It’s not ideal but it’s also not too far removed from just hitting Cmd 2.
I have also submitted feedback on this so maybe it will get fixed some day.
anickt
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[Nick Toth] “The skimmer doesn’t work while in those modes but dragging the playhead and clip skimming do. To quickly exit the transform/crop modes just hit the “A” key or any of the other cursor tool key shortcuts. Easier that clicking on “done”.”
Sure, but if you don’t do either (switch tools, or click done) the skimmer remains in a bit of limbo.
Probably not Oliver’s problem, but worth noting none the less.
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I thought that was intentional. Sometimes I leave it in that mode to get a break from skimming sensory overload.
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[John Young] “Sometimes I leave it in that mode to get a break from skimming sensory overload.”
Ha! You can always toggle off skimming.
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True, but you lose the ability to scrub through your footage. Now if the Event viewer had a scrub bar at the bottom….
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