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  • Timeline Playhead disappearing — MC 7.0.4.4 & OS 10.9.5

    Posted by Eurie Chung on April 7, 2016 at 8:06 am

    While working fine since September, just this week I have a situation where the play head (blue vertical line) disappears from the timeline about 10 minutes after launching. Re-launching or re-starting gets it back initially but then it disappears along with other timeline functions like key framing audio with the keyboard shortcuts.

    We have tried going back to the default timeline settings, creating new user profile and deleting waveform cache. Any and all other suggestions welcome!

    Sharon Stiles replied 10 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Ricky Barrow

    April 7, 2016 at 11:18 am

    I would uninstall and reinstall MC first.

    Ricky

  • Mark Holbrook

    April 7, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    It’s been happening to me as well. I’ve noticed that it occurs after I’ve placed a marker/locator on my timeline. Then, if I zoom into my timeline and then zoom back out, it disappears…EVERY TIME! If I don’t zoom in, it doesn’t disappear. It does this ONLY if I add a marker/locator. I haven’t been able to rectify this issue. It’s quiet annoying.

  • Eurie Chung

    April 13, 2016 at 4:59 am

    This may not help anyone else experiencing this problem, but it did fix it for us. The bluetooth Magic Mouse was behaving erratically and not consistently with the settings in the System Preferences. Turning it off, using a wired mouse, and then re-connecting via Bluetooth actually solved the problem.

  • Sharon Stiles

    April 15, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    This happens sometimes to me as well, usually when I’m in colour correction mode. A colleague found a workaround. Add an effect (like a resize) to a clip and the blue line comes back. You can remove the effect and the blue line stays.

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