The World’s Most Basic FCP Question

[Mark Suszko]

Turn and face the strange.

[Miriam Lefkowitz]

FCP also asks if you want to save your project after saving your project and immediately exiting the program. I always figured it was just being extra careful.

[David Eaks]

I do know what your saying, you feel like WTF changed?! It’s simple things like moving the playhead and maybe others like changing the active window, collapsing a bin or even if autosave, saves, FCP will want to do a save. Even though it’s not a “change” in the edit. Haven’t really tested for everything that does/doesn’t trigger the need to save though.

I have a habit of: Open a project, move the playhead, hit command-s, begin working. I do this because long ago I misinterpreted something I read, that auto-save isn’t triggered until the project has been is saved. That is definitely true for a new unsaved project but I’m pretty sure auto-save kicks in as soon as you open a project already in the works, but the habit lingers.

[Miriam Lefkowitz] “FCP also asks if you want to save your project after saving your project and immediately exiting the program. I always figured it was just being extra careful.”

Not if you hit the shortcuts, command-s (or option-command-s for multiple open projects) then immediately command-q. At least in my experience, thats how I quit FCP: cmd-s, -q. If you move the playhead after saving, FCP wants to save that “change”.