Richard Truchanowicz
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Yeah, it’s a web service but there’s also first and third party clients designed to interface with Twitter without using a web browser. The official Twitter client that’s available for free from the Mac App Store is simply named ‘Twitter’. If I had to guess, I’d say that’s the one Michael installed since I got that the same services added to OS X when I installed it as well.
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Most likely when Twitter itself is installed. A lot of programs take the liberty of adding themselves to the system services menu upon install, though not every program enables them by default. Services are kind of like little hooks that allow you to harness the utility of one program quickly and easily from another one.
Pre-Snow Leopard the services menu was a bit of mess since it wasn’t contextually sensitive and there wasn’t a straight forward way of configuring them. Also, if I remember correctly, you could only get to them from the menubar under the program’s name. In Snow Leopard they’re contextual, easily enabled/disabled from the system preferences and accessible from multiple locations. You can also build your own services using Automator.
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The Twitter stuff isn’t actually part of FCPX. Those menu options are system wide services that Twitter takes the liberty of installing. Highlight some text in another app, right click and you should see very similar options at the bottom of the menu. Services can be enabled/disabled from ‘System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Services’.
-Richard
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In the preferences, try changing “Apply Transitions Using” from “Full Overlap” to “Available Media”. That should solve your ripple problem. The default way builds transitions using only the footage that is explicitly put on the time line. The other option uses the unseen handles to prevent the sequence from rippling. It seems like there should be an easier way to set this on a per transition basis, but I haven’t found it yet.
You can apply transitions to clips outside the main storyline by encapsulating them in a secondary storyline, however it doesn’t seem like you can use them to transition between the primary and secondary storylines. When I apply a transition to a single secondary clips it transitions between the clip and black rather than the underlying primary storyline. You can keyframe opacity to ‘manually’ fade between the two if all you’re looking for is a simple dissolve.
At least, that’s what I’ve figured out so far. I think it’s ‘mostly’ right…
-Richard Truchanowicz