[Alovelywitch]

Hi Ben,

You’re funny. One of my problems is that I’m an avid editor and FCP is so frustrating to me.

I want to lay a tc burn on a video clip (which used to be a sequence of a bunch of clips but I thought instead of nesting the sequence I should just export and reimport one clip). Anyway now that I’m there I tried putting the tc gen filter on the clip and though it says in the viewer that my clip has the fx on it, it won’t show me the tc burn. However if I put the clip directly into the viewer (not in the timeline) the tc burn shows up – but won’t let me export from this window (I get 1 frame of tc on black for the entire clip). Once I put this clip in the timeline the tc disappears again. I tried other fx on the clip and no luck. Tried other clips no luck. Tried new timelines. New projects. No luck.

BTW – you were right about the transition shortcut – I didn’t have a favourite chosen. Thanks for that.

I realize that I’m probably missing some checked box or something when it comes to the fx filter.
Thanks for being patient. My brow is feeling much more relaxed.

[Alovelywitch]

yeah – my machine has bugs. Don’t know how to get rid of them. I completely cleared the keyboard and remapped it and the shortcuts still won’t work.

The thing with the timecode generator is really weird because if I drag the clip into the viewer I can see the tc burn but once it goes into the sequence I can’t see it. I tried to render from the viewer and all I get is black with 1 frame of timecode. When I double click on the clip in the sequence to open it up in the viewer I can see in the fx list that the tc generator fx is on but the actual tc burn isn’t showing up and it’s not prompting me to render in the timeline.

Arghh – very frustrating. I’m thinking of just throwing on tc in After fx.

r