Alex Gollner
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Thanks for the response, I had already chosen ‘thread view’ – and that hadn’t worked for me.
I see now that clicking once to see the whole thread is called ‘topic vew’
Just to be fussy, I’d like the overview of ‘thread view’ – but when I click a post within a thread, it shows the whole thread as it does in ‘topic view’ – but scrolled to the post I clicked on.
I imagine the forum system is bought in as a package, and therefore it isn’t at all easy to get what I want. I suppose I’m just putting it out there that my way is another possible way for the UI to be configured.
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Alexandre Gollner,
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I went with a half-way house that is slightly less dangerous than doing a straight upgrade:
Before upgrading in place, I renamed ‘Final Cut Pro’ to ‘Final Cut Pro 6.0.6’
No permissions fix (!) I ran the upgrade. It installed everything. Didn’t touch 6.0.6.
In 7 all was fine for a few days. Motion templates appeared as white on white within 7. Then an existing project became damaged. Then most files had the white screen problem.
I repaired disk permissions. All has been fine with 7 since. I haven’t had a look at master templates, because I think that might set off the bug again.
However, I haven’t been doing real work in 7. I’ve been doing paid work on 6.0.6 – with no problems at all. I’ve heard that Compressor frame controls are screwed up, but I’m using MPEG Streamclip for more advanced stuff.
When doing FxScript plugin development, I’ve been switching back and forward between 6.0.6 and 7. As both apps share the same Plugins folder, that hasn’t been a problem. The only delay has been an RT Extreme profiling each time I switch versions.
@alex4d
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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There’s no Final Cut way of doing this.
There are two directions you could go:
1. Export an XML of the clips you want to modify and use another application to modify all the in points of the clips and re-import the XML as a new project (Final Cut’s XML format doesn’t include Poster frame information, so you’ll have to use the fact that the default poster frame is the in point).
2. Use a keyboard and mouse recording app to record the operations to change the In points or Poster frame of one clip, and modify the macro to virtually press the keys 20 or 100 times. QuicKeys would be best, but I managed to use Automator to do the job:
a. With the browser window open, and your first clip selected, start Automator
b. In the main Automator window choose a Custom workflow
c. Make sure the browser window is visible on screen
d. Press the Record button in the Automator window to start a ‘Watch Me Do’ action. The following needs to be done quickly as Automator records in real time.
e. Press Return (opens the clip in the Viewer)
f. Press Shift-I (jump to in point)
g. Press the right cursor key (to move to the next frame, or Shift right cursor key to move 1 second on from the in point)
h. Press Control-P (To set the poster frame)
i. Press command-4 (To bring the browser to the front)
j. Press the down cursor key (to select the next clip down in the browser)
k. Find the floating Automator window and press the stop buttonYou now have an Automator action that brings FCP to the front, sets the poster frame of the currently selected clip and moves to the next selected clip. We can now duplicate that action in Automator, remove the command to bring FCP to the front. This new action will set the poster frame of the currently selected clip. You can then duplicate this action as many times as you like.
l. In Automator, save your workflow as ‘Increment clip poster frames’
m. Select the Watch Me Do action and set the Playback Speed to 10x which speeds up the key presses
n. Select all the events and set the Timeout to 0.0 seconds
o. Duplicate the first Action using Duplicate from the Edit menu
p. In the duplicate Action, select the ‘Bring the window “Browser” to the front.” event and delete it with the delete key
q. You now have an action you can duplicate as many times as you’d like the ‘Change the poster frame of the currently selected clip in the browser’ to repeat.
r. Save your workflow again.
s. In the browser, select the first of the clips you’d like to modify
t. Back in Automator, press the Run button to see your actions performed.[- If you aren’t sure about pressing the keys fast enough, you could use a special keyboard layout in FCP to assign those actions to a series of keys on the keyboard!]
It is possible to use this free utility on your computer to do this, but you’d get a lot more control if you use QuicKeys from Startly – which costs $60.
@alex4d
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The Apple documentation for developers who want to work with Final Cut is at
You’d use your C++ experience to create powerful FxPlug-based plugins.
If you look at the oldest document in the list you’ll see the definition of FxScript, Final Cut’s built-in scripting language:
The majority of Final Cut’s plugins are FxScript-based – even the new Alpha Transition feature of Final Cut Pro 7 (a plugin that can also work in 5.1.X and 6.X).
I learned FxScript by having a look at the source of the Apple-supplied plugins. Control-(or Right-)click an effect and choose “Open in Editor…” from the shortcut menu. As well as commented source code in a window, a new menu will appear to support plugin coding.
There’s also a site where FxScript plugin makers have come together and expanded on the official documentation:
https://www.fxscriptreference.org/
@alex4d
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Before I upgraded to 7, I confirmed that ProRes 4444 with it’s alpha channel worked fine in 6.0.6.
I would hope that the decode-only parts of the the newer codecs are built into the most recent versions of QuickTime instead of ProKit.
That would make it simpler to advise people without Final Cut Studio to simply update to the most recent version of Quicktime if they want to view footage from us.
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This method uses TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software (the makers of BBedit), and the free version of Pages from Apple’s iWork suite.
Here’s a 15 minute screen recording of me making my own copy of the manual.
I deleted 4-5 minutes of waiting for content to be inserted and pasted (on my MacBook Pro), so it shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to finish.
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You can choose to have an area of any colour you like. It defaults to being 50% transparent black. You can also have a horizontal gradient between the colour and full transparency (going left to right or right to left).
Alex
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On British keyboards, you’ll find it to the left of the Z (or ‘zed’) key.
You could assign any key you want to delete the current marker by going to the tools menu, choosing Keyboard layout, unlocking the current layout.
Alex
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If a long interview has been digitized as a single clip I sometimes slice it up on the timeline and use the media manager to make a new project with that sequence using Copy for the media but without ‘Include Master Clips Outside Selection,’ I usually add a few frames for handles.
I didn’t use a Media 100. How would you like subclips to work?
alex4d
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All I can tell you that is the method the BBC uses to colour correct the majority of their TV shows – some of which appear on PBS in the US.
I guess it makes for a very ‘pure’ XML file for Color to work with. They used to use Final Touch and think the UI of Color is perfectly fine – it is based on Pablo. They are glad that Apple didn’t change the way it works, they just made it a lot more reliable.
With that workflow they have no crashes or errors. The only problems end up being due to operator error.
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