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  • playhead offset weirdness cure?

    Posted by Ed Sayers on January 22, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    hi all

    doing my second job in fcpx and learning more and more

    does anyone get a weird thing where the playhead seems to jump a way to the left of where i click it in the timeline, it still plays at the point where i want it to but visually it’s out ‘of shot’ over to the left somewhere.

    doesn’t seem to be a pattern for when it occurs. and my only way to resolve is to quit fcpx and reopen it. but being a big project it takes time. maybe i’m accidentally hitting a keyboard shortcut for something??

    any help would be appreciated.
    thanks

    ed
    macbook pro 15″ spec’d up
    fcpx 10.2

    Ed Sayers replied 14 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Steve Connor

    January 22, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    It happens at a certain level of zoom on the timeline. It’s a bug that is still waiting to be fixed

    Steve Connor
    “FCPX Agitator”
    Adrenalin Television

  • Mark Morache

    January 23, 2012 at 1:50 am

    yes, known bug.

    I sometimes have good luck hitting the A key to make sure I’m using the select tool, then tapping the spacebar to start playing, then again to stop playing. This sometimes gets me back to where I was in the timeline.

    It is highly annoying, but isn’t keeping me from using FCX.

    ———
    FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

    Mark Morache
    Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
    Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
    https://fcpx.wordpress.com

  • Ed Sayers

    January 23, 2012 at 9:32 am

    thanks both

    good to know i’m getting up there into the finer wrinkles rather than just displaying pure lack of knowledge. makes you feel good

    looking forward to next update

    e

  • David Eaks

    January 23, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    I found that just zooming in or out (cmd +/-) once or twice, click to move the play head, then going back seems fix it.

  • Ed Sayers

    January 23, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    yep

    that’s the one. worked for me too, thanks to earlier post

    cheers

    e

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