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Shortcut keyboard editing questions — trying to avoid carpal tunnel…
Using FCP 4.5 HD, 2 GHz G5, OS 10.3.7
1) When two sequences are open in timeline, I would like to know how to use a keyboard command to jump between tabs in the timeline window.
2) What is the best way to emulate the great and wonderful “highlights” slider option that is within the Sepia filter without adding the color shifts built into the Sepia filter?
3) When I use the mouse and click a tab to a new sequence in the timeline, the canvas doesn’t follow, which means when I hit the spacebar I see the video playback for the previously active timeline instead of the current one. What can I do to fix this?
4) It used to be that when I was working in the timeline and I would line up the playback “bar” over a cut and hit “OPTION-APPLE-T” that an audio dissolve would appear on whatever audio had cuts at that exact point on the timeline. If there were four tracks or one track of audio with cuts at that frame ALL the tracks would get a dissolve. Now when I do that only one track gets a dissolve. What’s going on here?
Any advice on these four questions?
Thanks!
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Hey Dave,
[David Notowitz] “1) When two sequences are open in timeline, I would like to know how to use a keyboard command to jump between tabs in the timeline win”
CMD + 4: Selects the Browser
Down Arrow Key: To select the other Sequence
Enter: Opens the other sequenceYou want a one key toggle between the two? Sorry. That’s a Feature Request. However, once you have this method down, you can do all of your editing very quickly.
[David Notowitz] “2) What is the best way to emulate the great and wonderful “highlights” slider option that is within the Sepia filter without adding the color shifts built into the Sepia filter? “
Try the Whites Balance slider in the Color Corrector 3 Way.
[David Notowitz] “3) When I use the mouse and click a tab to a new sequence in the timeline, the canvas doesn’t follow, which means when I hit the spacebar I see the video playback for the previously active timeline instead of the current one. What can I do to fix this? “
Mine doesn’t do that. Once I switch in the Timeline, the Canvas follows. I suggest trashing your prefs.
[David Notowitz] “4) It used to be that when I was working in the timeline and I would line up the playback “bar” over a cut and hit “OPTION-APPLE-T” that an audio dissolve would appear on whatever audio had cuts at that exact point on the timeline. If there were four tracks or one track of audio with cuts at that frame ALL the tracks would get a dissolve. Now when I do that only one track gets a dissolve. What’s going on here?”
Read up on Auto-Select. They have to be enabled for the tracks you want to adjust.
Some things have changed fairly drastically between FCP 3 and FCP 4.
Hope this helps you.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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As to our discussion about #4 above, I have all the tracks Auto-Selected and still when I line up the playhead onto a cut in the timeline and press “OPTION-APPLE-T” to create an audio dissolve on multiple tracks at the same time, only the first track gets a dissolve. The only way I can now get this to work is if all the tracks for which I want to add a simultaneous audio dissolve are also linked together as stereo pairs. Anyone else have any good suggestions for this?
It used to work great on FCP version 3!
Notowitz Productions
Videos that touch the heart.
https://www.notowitz.com
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