[Andy Mees]

audio scrub
if you have “linked selection” turned off, when you double click a video clip instance in the timeline then only the video will load in the viewer … turn linked selection back on (shift-L) and double clicking the clip will load both video and linked audio.

multiclip
don’t have much use for multiclip myself, but I would suggest you check that you have chosen “Video” (only) from the View > Multiclip Active Tracks menu

[Andy Mees]

under FCP’s “View” menu, what output do you have selected for “Video Playback”?

[Andy Mees]

not sure if automator can do it but you could have a look at QTCoffee ( https://www.3am.pair.com/QTCoffee.html )
if you download and install it (and asssuming it works) then you could use applescript to make a “droplet” as below

FYI … i just copied and pasted this entire script staight off Apple’s “Applescript Resources” website at https://www.apple.com/applescript/guidebook/sbrt/pgs/sbrt.09.htm
then added the single ine of code second from bottom >do shell script (“modmovie ‘” & (POSIX path of this_item) & “‘ -rotate 180 -save-in-place”)< 1. download and install QTCoffee 2. open the application "Script Editor" in /Applications/AppleScript 3. copy and paste the full script below 4. choose File>Save As… set the File Format popup to “application”, give it a name and save it somewhere accessible
5. drag and drop a test clip on it and see if it works … if its good, drag and drop the folder containg all the clips on it
6. if it it doesn’t work, or your machine explodes, it’s not my fault 🙂

——————————————-
—- code follows below —–
——————————————-

— the list of file types which will be processed
— eg: {“PICT”, “JPEG”, “TIFF”, “GIFf”}
property type_list : {“MOV”}
— since file types are optional in Mac OS X,
— check the name extension if there is no file type
— eg: {“txt”, “text”, “jpg”, “jpeg”}
property extension_list : {“mov”}

— This droplet processes both files or folders of files dropped onto the applet
on open these_items
repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
set this_item to (item i of these_items)
set the item_info to info for this_item
if folder of the item_info is true then
process_folder(this_item)
else if (alias of the item_info is false) and

[Andy Mees]

video scrub? audio scrubbing is toggled on and off using Shift-S, but not sure about video scrub

[Andy Mees]

sorry … my shoddy embeded html link played havoc with the cow’s built-in formatter
the link for the widescreen plug is https://homepage.mac.com/andymees/Free-and-Easy/FileSharing4.html

fyi: in the controls for the generator, setting the Size value to 21 is equivalent to a 1:70:1 matte

cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

anyone wanting the “glossy” can simply get a sheet of acetate (like you’d use for an old fashioned (!) overhead projector) and tape it to the top of the display so it hangs down over the screen … my last laptop had to be sent in for a top-case replacement, when it came back it had a sheet of acetate taped over the screen (presumably for protection during assembly).

[Andy Mees]

… or get out a calculator 🙂

the widescreen matte offset value is not working in pixels, what its doing is taking the pixel height of your canvas and dividing that value by 100
so if you’re working in DV NTSC then “1” in the offset value would equal “4.8” pixels (and -27 is going to be -129.6)
to ensure an even pixel offset you’d have to work in multiples of 5 … 5 = 24 pixels, 10 = 48 pixels, 15 = 72 pixels etc

anyway, the long and the short of it is that the widescreen matte filter isn’t all that great as you can’t easily get accurate control of your offset
and as has already been said, trust your eye (or get out a calculator)

there are alternative (free) solutions if you search about … you’re welcome to use my own widescreen matte ‘generator’.

( setting the Size value to 21 is equivalent to 1:70:1 )

cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

hey Chris,
do you think this is worth the price of admission now, or can you wait till v3?
just like when you buy your Mac or PC, or if you buy a harddisc, you’ve got to expect the price to lower over time and/or the specs to improve … if it’s very popular, we could expect competing products too.
cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

do you have any older “autosaved” versions of this project?
if its a project corruption issue you may find an earlier version will open more easily… start with the most recent and work backwards (chronologically) until you find one that’ll open.
not ideal but better than nothing perhaps.

[Andy Mees]

you can select all (or any combination of) the sequences in the browser and then hit Cmd-R or Opt-R … that will render all the selected sequences one by one