Julian Bowman
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Charlie, Brett and Jeremy: many thanks for those replies. I’m only reading at the moment but they make sense and I am going to have a play in a bit. If I can avoid going in and out of the B and just cut where I want that would be preferable. I do have cut all shortcuted and use it a lot and exactly as I wish so perhaps the same is possible for B will look into what Jeremby said about the three options.
And as for the skimmer, it’s just a preference thing but I truly hate timeline skimming. I get others may love it but for me it just totally screws with my natural flow and constantly trips me up when it accidentally on. Why I find it annoying that it isn’t a separate thing from thumbnail skimming is that skimming is essential in the thumbs so…. If/when they are separate features, you’ll not hear from me about it again 🙂
As for clip skimming, just read about that yesterday so after Brett’s comment will look into it and have a play, but I don’t think that will circumnavigate the issue of S being for both timeline and thumbs.
Still, feedback list 🙂
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Hey Oliver, yes you are correct I can do that but it is frustrating having to add further keystrokes, and having to think about it. there seems to be a lot of having to manually turn things that get in the way on and off. And yes I am compiling a list of feedback things I will submit. I’m with X now for better or for worse and on the whole it is fine and dandy so want to figure out annoyances and bugs etc and feedback in the hope of improvement, and that is partly why I post here because I like seeing the responses and those responses are helping shape my understanding and thus my feedback list.
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Cheers Jeremy, thanks for letting me know. Will add it to my feedback list.
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Thanks all. And yes, I see where you are coming from with this. Fundamentally I was creating a gap with the tttt option and dumping a gap in and changing the duration of it is perfectly acceptable to me. Just needed a different perspective.
Appreciated 🙂
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Ha, yeah, I am actually compiling a list of things, but the question was genuine, as in can it be switched off/am i missing something, as sometimes I simply am, and CC is my forum of choice so i like to whine on here too 🙂 I am going to preface my whines with *whine* though so people can simply not read those bits 🙂
And to be honest I imagine that over time a lot of these things that annoy, are half baked, don’t quite work, could be made better, are more likely than not going to be improved at some point. I guess at that point in life I’ll simply be content and will have to *whine* on another forum 🙂
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Cheers Jeremy, nice to know it can be done as a group. Appreciated.
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Cheers Jari.
In fact since posting I have discovered that detaching isn’t very wise at all as you can’t reattach without creating a compound clip, so yes expand, do your business, then close 🙂
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Mea
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Personally I wish there were two different skimmers. One for the thumbs and one for the timeline. The one on the thumbs i like and use. The one on the timeline I loathe and always turn off.
By having them both work from the same S key stroke I have to keep hitting S when i switch between the two areas during my edit which is a pain. So let me turn the thumbnails skimmer on ‘S’ and the timeline skimmer off ‘CMD+S’ and leave them both like that unless I want to turn the timeline skimmer om ‘CMD+S’, and then I can turn it off again when it invariably gets in my way ‘CMD+S’ whilst the thumbnail skimmer remains as is throughout.
In addition, make clicking on a new point in the thumbnail not stop the playing of the clip. it’s annoying and one of the things CS6 dropped the ball on.
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Right,
I redid my CCC backup to copy to the ‘backup’ folder i created on my back up drive and now FCP X does indeed not read the backed up Events and projects, so that was a great tip cheers.
Still not totally sure how my initial Event ended up on my back up drive but not my regular drive and then vanished, but I believe this new set up will stop that ever happening again, AND once bitten and all that… just gonna bloody check everything during set up from now on 🙂
Thanks all for the help in resolving this mystery.