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SHIFT-F failure
Working in FCP HD 4.5, various G5s, OSX 10.3.9 on a documentary series…
In doing our footage counts the SHIFT-F shortcut to reveal a clip from the timeline in the browser (to determine which bin the clip is from) isn’t working for us.
We’ve tried all basic troubleshooting (track auto-select, window activation, etc) and still can’t figure it out. In tests, SHIFT-F to holds up fine in smaller projects but fails (on various systems) when used on the hour-long episode.
Any known bugs, workarounds, or suggestions?
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6 Replies
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How many clips are in the browser with these longer projects? Are the clips subclips or are they master clips? I can’t reproduce this with a project file that contains maybe 200 clips or so… it’s working here.
Jerry
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From what you wrote I am assuming that you are moving masterclips and timelines back and forth between various projects.
If you move a timeline from one project into another all the clips in the timeline become independent. Which disables SHIFT-F but not OPT-APPLE-F or just plain F.
I have had this problem occur on multiple occasions as I try to avoid the ridiculously long save times that FCP needs when working with larger project files. What I generally do is create a new bin, use OPT-APPLE-F, and drag the clip from the viewer into the new bin.
-b
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It sounds like your project is missing the folder from which the clip came. If that’s the case, then shift F will not work. FCP can’t find a folder that doesn’t exist in that project. If you want the match function to open the folder from where the clip came from, that folder must be in the current open project.
mark
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Can you create a new folder with the same name as the original?
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As has been suggested, you can, but it won’t find a browser clip that’s once been deleted. Even reimporting it won’t make the shift+f command show the new reference…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Looking at the other post (or posts),Kimberly seems to be posting about a series of problems related to not quite understanding FCP’s weird family of Browser items: independent clips, subclips and master clips. Time to RTFM.
bogiesan
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