Scrolling Timeline in FCP – Hack???

[Kevin Monahan]

It helps, but this should be automated. Maybe some day….(sigh)

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Todd Reid]

With a mighty mouse, I’ve been able to scroll timelines (left/right & up/down) as I see fit.

In my opinion, this would be a luxury.
I would not want it at the expense of something else, like realtime-ness.
I can think of many things I’d rather have, but that may be due to the might mouse making this feature unnecessary.

[Misha Aranyshev]

I don’t think the problem is to redraw timeline. I think the problem is to redraw audio waveform. The size of cache FCP keeps waveform in is quite small and reading from there isn’t that fast. I used to put onto the RAM disk back under System 9 and still felt it is slow.

[Sean Oneil]

[Tom Wolsky] “Bottom line appears to be that Apple just doesn’t seem to think this is a significant enhancement. “

Tom’s right. They could easily make this work without causing even a hiccup in performance.

That said, I never understood what the big deal is. I missed it at first. Not for any logical reason – just because I was used to it. Right now I can’t really think of any actual benefit it would provide. When you pause playback, it jumps to the spot in the timeline where the playhead is. That’s all that really matters.

Sean

[Tom Wolsky]

Apple put a real-time, keyframable audio mixer in the application. It even has MIDI interface to hardware controls. That’s really hard to do on a program of any length if the timeline doesn’t scroll with you.

All the best,

Tom

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[Dylan Reeve]

[David Roth Weiss] “According to Larry, the rapid graphics updating required to display the scrolling timeline is such a resource hog that it would compromize realtime performance.”

I call BS on that. I have a scrolling timeline in Avid Media Composer on the same computer with no impact on realtime performance at all. I’m not using it right now, but I believe the timeline isn’t completely redrawn as it scrolls, some things are left off, but the clips are clearly evident as are effects and other useful bits.

[David Roth weiss]

[Dylan Reeve] “I call BS on that.”

Don’t cut off my head, I’m just the messenger, I didn’t create the message…

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[Dylan Reeve]

[David Roth Weiss] “Don’t cut off my head, I’m just the messenger, I didn’t create the message…”

Sorry David, of course I understand that. Seems like a bit of a cop out to me, that’s all. There’s no shortage of computing power in these modern boxes.

[Jake Hawkes]

Thanks for all the input…

This is and should not be alot of overhead in the most simple timeline viewer. Vector graphics take up so low of an overhead and make them animate is a very simple formula.

Oh well…

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[Paul Jones]

My first Lightworks did it with any problem about 19 years ago and that had the processing power of a pea…no excuses I’m afraid !