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undo command acting irrational and insane
Hello,
I am encountering a strange issue regarding the “undo” command in final cut. It seems, after working for a while, that undo no longer undoes my most recent edits, but rather undoes changes that were made several edits back, or either it just randomly cuts and moves clips around and out of synch. At one point I was even unable to select certain clips in my timeline; when I clicked on them it simply would not select them, as though it was registering no clip there. Needless to say, after hitting undo many times to fix one problem, it then generates several more problems which it cannot undo, and I have to reboot and go back to an autosave, or fix it all by hand. This happened to me today with clients in, and the edit got all out of whack. Rebooting the system makes the problem stop, temporarily, but after several hours of work it occurs again. The strange thing is that two days ago I worked on one system and had this problem (a problem i’ve never encountered before) and then moved to another system and encountered the same problem again. Could it be my project? Or my drive! Because it seems strange that such a random coincidence would occur on two different systems on consecutive days.
System 1:
Kona LH
OS X 10.4.6
2 GHZ G5
2 GB RAM
FCP 5.1.2System 2:
Kona 2
OS X 10.4.6
2.5 GHz G5
2 GB RAM
FCP 5.1.2using a Lacie d2 quadra firewire drive, all DV footage at 30p.
I will trash the preferences and see if that helps.
Please, if anyone has experienced this problem, or something similar let me know.
Thanks,Ken
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1 Reply
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Ken,
As you said, trash the prefs, and you might also want to try to fix permissions, either by using Disk Utility or by running Disk Warrior if you have it.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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