Don Smith
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Tried the Option key to enable Detect Displays. No response.
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At work (on a 6-core 2013 Mac Pro) I have two 30″ Apple displays connected with active Mini-Display to Dual Link adaptors. One each on different Thunderbolt buses. I also have a regular HD monitor connected to the HDMI port on the third bus. Two of the three monitors will light. Any two. But only two at one time.
At home (on a 12-core 2013 Mac Pro) I have a 27″ Thunderbolt Apple display on one TB bus, an HD monitor (1920×1080) on a second TB bus, and an HD monitor on the HDMI port of the third bus. All three will function normally.
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Now that I’ve updated my 12-core new Mac Pro at home I can report it does NOT have a problem with the three monitors attached to it. Yet the three-monitor problem persists on my work 6-core new Mac Pro at work.
I’ve tried downloading the Combo 10.9.3 updater and I’ve tried, as per a suggestion on a like posted here, to replace some ktext files. No luck.
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Problem found.
The Users folder was not visible in the root directory of the boot drive!
It was there, though, which allowed her to operate normally, but when she followed the directions posted to fix invisible folders in the new 10.9.3 update (even though she hasn’t updated yet) it make her Users folder visible and X was able to import normally. No greyed out listings in the Favorites area of the Import dialog.
Here’s the instructions she followed:
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Jari, I suspect that the update doesn’t like the 30″ monitors I’m running even though they are connected using an active adaptor. But it worked before the update. Please know that I’m not saying the update won’t run three monitors. I’m just saying it won’t run my set of three monitors.
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(with the clip selected on the timeline) Try going into the Inspector > Audio and in the Audio Enhancements box, bottom row of that box, click on the right-facing arrow.
Enable the Loudness parameter at the top. I’m unsure as to what each slider does but it appears to me that the top slider is loudness and the bottom slider fills in the valleys to give the listening better presence.
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I often use the Option modifier to ‘gear down’ the movement of a value in the Inspector such as approaching a value with more precision and I found that this also works in the color board. If you scrub the percent or degree by itself then you get fast correction but with the Option key held then the movement slows down and is more precise as you hone in.
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If I understand you then you may not understand that the Adjustment Layer does not lock where the video below is positioned. Once you have a crop on the Adjustment Layer you are free to select each clip below and move it up and down so that the area ‘showing through’ the mask is what you want yet the mask stays locked in the same position. You did say you wanted a uniform mask that’s the same across all clips didn’t you? Using a cropped Adjustment Layer leaves you free to move each clip as you see fit so that the right area is visible.
Making a double-click on a clip to move the playhead to the clip would set up all sorts of problems with other functions. For example, you could no longer double-click on a Compound Clip to go into the nest. You could no longer double-click on a MultiCam clip to expand into its components. It would be easier (and I haven’t tested this) to use a mouse Preference pane to program, say, the wheel click to emulate the Option click so you could get what you want one-handed.
Don
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To make the playhead follow your selection hold Option when you select the clip. Otherwise the playhead stays where it is. This is a good thing. You choose either action (to hold Option or not to hold Option) and you’ll find that MOST OFTEN you do NOT want the playhead to follow. Originally the playhead always followed the selection and it drove me MAD!
It was already suggested by another poster here but let me expand on cropping all clips the same using an Adjustment Layer. X does not ship with an Adjustment Layer but you can make your own in under a minute. Launch Motion. Create a new Final Cut Title. Delete the text layer (the layer that says ‘Type Text Here’). Save with the name ‘Adjustment Layer’. The Adjustment Layer appears in the Titles section of your Effects in X.
Put this layer above all video you want affected by anything you do to the Adjustment Layer. In your case, 2.34:1 (assuming you have 1920 pixel wide video) would give you a vertical size of 820 pixels. That’s 260 pixels less than 1080 so just select the Adjustment Layer and crop it up from the bottom by half of 260 (130 pixels) and down from the top by 130 pixels. Now you have 2.34:1 video applied to all clips under the Adjustment Layer. And, all clips will be perfectly centered vertically.
In the future you can calculate how many pixels to crop by taking the wide pixel count (that’s the ‘1’ in the aspect ratio) and divide it by the ratio (2.34 in this case). That gives you the vertical size of the video frame you want. Subtract that number from the vertical frame (1080 in this case) then divide that difference by 2 to equally distribute the letterbox above and below the video using the Crop controls.
Extra Credit: You can make a custom Adjustment Layer to do this same crop for you whenever you need it. While creating the Adjustment Layer in Motion, crop the Title Background layer with the cropping that gives you a 2.34:1 mask and save it with a name like ‘2.34:1 Mask’ instead of saving it with the Adjustment Layer name.
As to duplicate effects let me say you want that. There are circumstances where you’ll use the same effect more than once and you don’t want the software deciding for you automatically that you can’t do that. This is a case where you as the editor will want to decide which effect can stay and you can just just click on clip after clip and check the Inspector to see if it has dupes you don’t want and delete them. No need for the playhead to follow and unless you want that by holding Option with each clip selection.
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I got wise and found the call number instead of waiting a day for a reply only to be told that my subsystem report wasn’t attached after all then waiting a day to hear that one drive is failing but dropping it that with no suggestion of how to proceed to get it replaced. The guy who answered my help call (quickly, I might add) was great. He had me upload a current subsystem report and saw that drive 5 was failing. Next thin you know I’m authorizing a RMA shipment and now I’m just waiting for my replacement drive to appear.
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