[Jeffrey Carter]

Thanks to this thread, I figured out dual monitors in Mavericks – but – now I’m having a problem when I use shift-c to enter crop mode. The space shifts one over! If, after I move back to the FCPX space, I click the ‘crop’ button the space slides over again. Very annoying. I tried looking in the preferences pane but found nothing.

Anyone else having this problem?

[Jeffrey Carter]

You cannot detach audio from a multicam clip nor can you connect just the audio (using shift-3). The only solution I’ve found is connect the clip (with video and audio), then drag it down below the primary storyline. That way the video from the main storyline will obscure the clip’s video, but you will hear audio.

You can still match back to the multicam clip with shift-f.

[Jeffrey Carter]

To “un-twirl” all your clips do this: click the arrow button (the main header one) to close all clips when in list view. Then option click the arrow and all clips will be “un-twirrled” at once.

This is a huge time savior in order to see all your favorite or keyword notes.

[Jeffrey Carter]

You can also select a clip (press C) then ctrl-D to view duration in the timecode window. It’s a little easier to see and you can change the duration by entering a numeric value.

[Jeffrey Carter]

Every update I always have a problem with shortcuts. I have a custom, saved, shortcut set. When I upgrade and Apple adds new keyboard shortcuts (like the new timeline clip view shortcuts), they don’t work. I have to ‘reset’ by scrapping my old saved set – taking the new default set and re-adding my shortcuts that I want and creating a new saved set.

When they add new shortcuts, they don’t append to your previously saved sets.

[Jeffrey Carter]

For just synced clips, you’ll have to manually put them in a keyword collection…

[Jeffrey Carter]

One way I use for multi cam clips is to first create keyword collections like you did, but then assign a ‘camera angle’ to each group. This is in the info tab. So camera 1 is “A”, camera 2 is “B” and audio is “C”. Then, when you are in the root event (seeing all the clips) you can select “Group Clips By” (gear button in lower left corner of event window) and select “camera angle”.

Now each angle is organized in the event window, making it easier to select the shots to create a multi cam clip. In addition, I create a new smart collection with ‘clip type’ set to ‘multicam’. Now the new clips that I create show up there.

[Jeffrey Carter]

The hardest thing to get past FCPX is its timeline paradigm – it’s completely different from what anyone is used to working with. I also am an Avid editor that went to FCP 7 then FCPX. I wanted to tear my hair out on many an occasion until I got my head around the new workflow.

To lay audio only and have b-roll over it, there are two methods:

One – just lay the video/audio clip in the main timeline and start adding B-roll by ‘connecting’ it to the main timeline with the ‘Q’ button. This lays video on top of your clip, obscuring the video track below. On an Avid you could just patch audio on A1 & A2 and start laying video on the V1 track.

On an Avid (and FCP 7), if you wanted a B-roll cutaway in an interview, you would lay it over the video on V1. FCPX doesn’t work that way – you have to connect the B-roll shot above the video (almost like putting it on V2).

Another way is to hit “shift-3” for an audio only edit and lay just sound in the main timeline. You would then hit “shift-2” for a video only edit and use the “Q” button to connect video above the audio in the main timeline.

Now the fun begins when you want to slip and slide those edits – you can’t! At least not until you create a ‘secondary timeline’ by selecting all those clips and hitting “cmd-G”. Then the trim tools will work.

At first blush it is counter-intuitive with way to many steps, but once you understand the workflow it does go faster without having to patch tracks all the time.

[Jeffrey Carter]

I re-mapped the keyboard to my personal preference of cmd-up arrow / cmd-down arrow for zoom (on a full sized keyboard), and I have never experienced that bug on any version of the software.

Might be worth a try…

[Jeffrey Carter]

Thanks for the reply! No, the player is the same as I always use. When I author a DVD using DVD SP, I set the display type to 4:3 and that squeezes the image so I can un-squeeze on the player to watch on my HD TV.

When I burn a DVD straight from the share menu of FCPX using Apple’s DVD preset, it creates a letterbox image. There seems to be no presets that I can see.

In the instance you’re referring to, are you using the share preset and are you going from HD original to an SD DVD?

Normally I author through DVD SP, but it would be nice for quick ‘one-offs’ to be squeezed so I can use the full image.