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the dumbest thing about final cut..
… is that when you lay in a clip the wiper jumps to the end of the clip. 95% of the time when I lay in a clip I want to work at the head of the clip not at the tail. When the clip is long then the bit you want to work on is then pushed off the visible part of the sequence and you have to navigate back to the head. I wish there was a way to turn that off.
jason
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Jason,
There are reasons to have the playhead function in this way as well. For example, when putting together a rough assembly (say of a narrative scene), this allows you to to place your selected shots in the timeline (using overwrite edits, not drag and drop) without having to navgate to the end ot each clip after each overwrite. Thus, you never even have to touch the timeline to rough out an edit. An option to switch playhead behavior between End Jump and Stationary may be a nice feature, but its current functionality is not a stupid feature in the least.
-Ben
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> An option to switch playhead behavior between End Jump and Stationary may be a nice feature, but its current functionality is not a stupid feature in the least.< I still find this annoying. Turning it off would be great but we've been screaming about it since at least v2. Apprently, no one at Apple thinks it's worth changing. Stupid? That's a relative value. This particular quirk is annoying but it's not on my list of stupid features in FCP. And my list is REALLY long. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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So push the up arrow button one time to get immedately to the head of the edit…
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“Bogie’s List of Stupid Features in FCP.” Now THAT’S a book (manual, LOL!!!) I would love to read.
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I have to agree just a little. It would be nice to be given the option to select this or not, maybe using the preferences or a keystroke.
It does have real purpose, just not everybody wants to use that workflow.
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The (label) name of the clip covering up the beginning of the audio track so you can’t see the wave form for audio starts.
Hey apple, why don’t you move the text over an inch or so huh?
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When you drag a clip to a new timeline and the clip formate is different from the timeline format and the timeline wants to render it!!!!
Ooops solved in FCP6, only 4 years after Quantel did it…
Chris
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jason,
If you would be right now editing something that must be aired in a few minutes, you would cry if the play-head wouldn’t go where it goes.
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Wouldn’t that just cover up a different part of the waveform?
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