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Seeing Range of clip other than on the bottom of the Browser
Hi,
I am using Dual Monitors in FCPX. I have my timeline and my 2 windows (It looks like the Canvas and Viewer Windows in FCP 7) on the monitor that’s in front of me. I have my Browser on the right screen.
When I load my Source Clip into my “Canvas Window” and and set my in and out points on it, the only way I can see how long it is between those points is to look at he bottom right of the browser, which is on my right monitor.
Is there a way to have the range of the in and out points somewhere else closer to the timeline or the 2 windows on my left monitor?
Thanks in advance.
FXP 10.2.1
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6 Replies
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If you hit control-d with the range selected, the middle timecode window will show you the length.
This area of FCPX needs some advancement, for sure.
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True. But shouldn’t have to look at the other monitor. One does the marking in/out on the same screen as the event, and the duration is at lest on the same screen. I’d love it if you could mark in / out and scrub in the Event viewer and had some better TC displays.
I feel like X had some fast updates and advancements in it’s first 18-24mo after release, but in the last 2 years nothing but 3D. Changing the file system doesn’t count imo. I feel like we’re already in the FCP 6 stage of development. There will be another update to add in some requested features, but then even more crickets.
Hope I’m wrong.
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[Bret Williams] ” I feel like we’re already in the FCP 6 stage of development. … but then even more crickets.”
They are probably busy fixing stuff that El Capitan will most assuredly break.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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This whole move the development team around surely has something to do with their breakneck pace then tortoise crawl mo. And with AppleTV and a Watch having come out in previous years, I can be the priority for the niche pro side users has shown down. Hopefully as you suggest, it’ll pick up when the watch and tv progress slows to a halt for a few years.
So the richest company on the planet has to share it’s development teams. Awesome.
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[Bret Williams] “So the richest company on the planet has to share it’s development teams. Awesome.”
I’ve repeatedly been told by people who should know, that the ProApps engineering teams are a lot smaller than the equivalent teams at Adobe and Avid. Of course, software development doesn’t necessarily get better with more people. Sometimes it gets worse, because you add more variables.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
PS: When I said they might be working on EC fixes, I didn’t mean that they were being pulled off to work on EC as part of the OS team. Although that could certainly also be true. What I meant was that EC will probably break key architectures that FCP X and the plug-ins depend on. Therefore, this needs to be fixed before EC is released, so that an updated version of X is ready when EC launches.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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