[Mark Smith]

Assuming your zoom H6 is a usb device, it should show up in the FCPX voice over tab when it is connected to your computer. I use a Sound devices mix pre D which shows up in the list of input devices in the voice over tab when connected with usb…

[Mark Smith]

With a large horizontal touch screen, I could imagine editing becoming something like that scee from Minority Report where Tom Cruise is using gestures to edit some visuals, or at least that’s what I recall. It been a while since I’ve seen that film.

[Mark Smith]

YOu should have clear sailing now.
Depending on hardware, X can handle varying amounts of stills. If you have some maxxed out you’ll handle a larger mass of stills than if you have a Mac mini. Sometimes I need to do work on a 2012 iMac which will cope with around 1000 stills in a project before its gets sticky . This is what drove me to make pro res stills sequences in compressor and then move those sequences into X. Typically I might be working with stills sequences that involve several thousand stills if not more .

You should have ‘clear sailing’ now that you are over this hurdle .

[Mark Smith]

At this point I’d have to agree with Steve Connor that the issue is some sort of system problem, ctrl D isn’t mapped properly, maybe you need to trash your installation of X and reinstall. Something. I work with lots of digital timelapse frequently and changing duration of stills is a snap, though as I said earlier, my preferred workflow is run my stills through compressor to create an image sequence and then import the image sequence into X. I do this only because sometimes my stills number in the many thousands and that can be cumbersome in X at some point.

I’l wait to hear what apple has to say on the subject….

[Mark Smith]

Are you using X version 10.4.3?

When you selected all the clips in the index – rolled the mouse over to the the time line and saw all the clip marquees turn yellow then CTRL D type in duration and nothing happened?

If you make the compound clip without changing the durtion of stills to 1 frame, then yeah, the result won’t be what you want.

I’m a little mystified why control D doesn’t allow you to change duration of those still frames. It works ths way on all my machines.

[Mark Smith]

So back to the time line index ……

1) throw some stills in the time line they will probably be the default duration of 4 seconds or something like that.

2) in the time line index, select the first still, shift click the last still, which selects all your stills. In the time line you will se a white marquee around all your stills. Move your mouse pointer From where ever it is to the time line, the marquee around the clips will turn yellow.

3) control D, enter desired still duration- entering 1 will change the duration to one frame, 2 will make 2 frame duration etc. your clips are all changed to the desired duration.

If you are going to do make stills sequences into video sequences frequently I’d either advise you generate still sequences using Compressor or whatever Adobe App and then import that .mov into X and manipulate from there OR make the stills sequence inside X, and when you have all your stills in the time line with the desired duration, make that stills sequence into a compound clip. You will find what ever you want to do with that compound clip, speed ramping, grading, cropping, much easier than dealing with your base clip of hundreds of stills. I do a fair amount of time lapse created from digital stills and I’ve been down this road….

[Mark Smith]

I understand that you din’t Make up your method and if that works for you then all the better. I tend to use the keyboard more so the .&, key method is the way I make small adjustments to clip position and just thought I would point that out.

[Mark Smith]

I have had occasional intermittent problems with this same issue from time to time, but I haven’t in quite some time. You can also go to the time line index select all your clips there and try the control D – set duration command – and enter your desired duration. Its a little random but sometimes the timeline index would work changing clips duration for some reason when selecting clips in the timeline would not.

[Mark Smith]

Lets say you have your audio, video clip connected at a point to the main story line and the clip connection point is somewhere amidships the audio or video clip, so not at either the start frame or end frame, but some place in the middle. If you need to adjust the position- timing of that clip in the time line by a little- fine tuning its postion, you can highlight the clip and drag it into the new position or if it just needs a tweak you can select the clip and use either the comma or period keys to shift right or left a frame at a time, or use the the shift modifier and comma, period to jump the clip 10 frames at a time. You can’t shift forward or back past the connection point. I find this method a quick way to make those fine adjustments.

[Mark Smith]

I loved my Cheese Grater mac pro until it was finally time for it to go. It was by far one of the most robust computers I have ever owned and I think Apple would do everyone a favor by makig the 2018 version of that machine.

That said, I am profoundly dyslexic and sitting in front of a computer and parsing through files and piles of drivers is worse for me than a trip to the dentist who eschews novocaine.

And then there are the system updates that might break the hackintosh. If you look at it strictly by $ sure there is a case, but I have to consider the psychic pain of sitting more hours in front of a screen figuring out what went off the rails with the latest update which is not a desired activity. I’ve got enough screen time in my life, and now I’m on a screen time diet. There is also something frustrating to me about fixing the tools that I need to do the work I own the tools for in the first place.

Maybe its a high convenience fee, but I’m ok. My Macs give me long years of surprisingly trouble free service: my 2012 macbook pro still runs perfectly well, needs a battery, but hey. THe Macbook not my edit machine except only in a pinch and only for HD, but it still works great.

I know there is satifaction in building things, I’ve built a wide variety of stuff, racing motorcycles, camera rigs, gardens, houses to name a few. I know I’m not going to get much satisfactio from building a hackintosh, so I’ll skip. My hat’s off to people who go down that route.