[Edit Bay rat]

Sounds like you may have closed it by accident. Go into the Tools menu. You should see “Timeline” inside. Select that. Cross your fingers.

[Edit Bay rat]

What do you plan to do with the skills once you’ve acquired them? That will, to a large degree, dictate which direction you ought to go. What’s your goal?

[Edit Bay rat]

And there you have it…sometimes hoping and watching pays off.

A trip to the L tells me that the console command that allows precomputes to be loaded into the source monitor is as follows:

subsys monpane debug

I’ve tried it and it works perfectly. To turn it off, restart the application.

As usual, caution is advised when working in the console; you can do a lot of damage if you’re not careful.

The Rat

[Edit Bay rat]

Thanks. Cleaner looks like the ticket. I think the other program you’re refering to might be Flip4Mac, which is supposed to work as you described. However, while FCP is listed as supported, Avid is not (what’s up with that?)

Thanks again.

[Edit Bay rat]

Well…you don’t. At least not as far as I know. It’s one of the great mysterys of life that you can drag a precompute into the source monitor from a bin but can’t source it back from the timeline.

If you just need to cut the key into another spot on the timeline and don’t want to spend the time searching for the original, mark it in the sequence and sub it out to a bin. The sub-sequence will function the same as the original clip.

If you actually need to find the original, put on your hip waders or hope that somebody here knows something that I don’t (I’ll be watching and hoping).

This is why each of my projects gets a dedicated “titles and fx” bin out of the box.

The Rat