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Palettes will not stay put
I am trying a dual-monitor setup for the first time. I drag the Filters and Motion palettes over to the 2nd monitor. If I do certain things – eg. double click another clip in the timeline – the Filters and Motion palettes suddenly swoop back to their original home inside the same window with the Viewer. I cannot get them to stay where I want them to.
What gives?
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4 Replies
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Sorry, never seen this behavior. but. You can save your custom layout under Window.
bogiesan
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I tried that, to no avail. It doesn’t stop it from happening, and it also doesn’t restore the two palettes back to where they were when I saved the window layout! FCP seems to be insisting: “NO dummy, these palettes go over here, I don’t care what you want.”
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[Raven Plenty] “”NO dummy, these palettes go over here, I don’t care what you want.””
Welcome to the video business! Have a nice day! 🙂
In all honesty, think of the filters and motion palettes are clip specific, if you open another clip, then the palettes open with it. Now, if you are working form the timeline, the viewer only gets one set of palettes, its timeline specific.
If you open a clip form the BROWSER you can drag out the palettes for the clip and it will hover there or move the background, but any changes you make will effect that clip forever until you remove the effects and you will have a separate motion and effects tab for each clip you open, it can get messy. When working in the viewer, you are working of a separate instance of that clip and your master clip in the browser will remain untouched. SInce you can only have one clip in the viewer at time, you get one set of palettes.
Hope that makes sense.
Jeremy
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Whew, I have NEVER seen that happen.
Sorry not to be any help guys, you’re using a part of the FCP interface I’ve never seen, I guess.bogiesan
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