I’ve had some customised keyboard shortcuts working, using the amazing ‘Command Post’ app, to quickly let me move between different Workspace set-ups I’d created.

Depending on whether I was on my laptop, or on a two screen desk set-up using an extended Apple keyboard, I had several Workspaces organised for each, with Command Post selecting them…

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I’ve had similar problem. I can put my serial number in to the CoreMelt manager and L&L works for a short while, but then reopening a project it’s telling me it’s on Trial again.
Months of back and forth with Coremelt got me nowhere, and I’ve given up using it – rather disgusted with their customer service considering I paid a decent was for their…

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No direct plug-in compatibility problems updating on a Silicon M2 running Sonoma, and ditto re comments above about the magnetic mask – really powerful and useful.

One personally very tedious and annoying thing is that we seem to have inexplicably lost ‘FatEQ’ as an audio plug-in option! Why?

I’ve used this endlessly in previous projects, so…

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I was sent a logo to use as a bug for an FCPX project and I came across this issue for the first time.
Weirdly, changing Alpha to ‘straight’ in the Inspector still gave me a black screen, but when I choose ‘premultiply’, it’s working as it should. (The logo was yellow on black in the png file, and it’s the yellow bit I needed). When the clip was…

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All Ben’s advice is perfect in general, but I’m pretty sure there’s an actual quirk involved too.

I always have FCPX set to import to Library.
I always wait until I get the ‘finished importing – eject card’ pop-up.

But the described issue has happened – once by chance a week ago, otherwise maybe a few months ago. I make a lot of shorts and my…

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I’ve had the same problem a occasionally without any Dropbox factor involved.

I ALWAYS import to library, so there’s no way the ‘leave files in place’ would be ticked on.

After importing from a card from a Lumix GH5S M2, I came back to the project the next day and files are missing as per OP’s description. And like them, when I reinsert the camera…

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Did 10.6.8 improve all these issues? – I have just seen that 10.6.9 is just dropping (with iPhone 15 extras and some new logs being the main changes). Do people still think sticking to 10.6.5 is best, or have the new bugs resolved? Any issues with third party plug-ins found too? I’m not updating Ventura 13.3.1(a) after reading elsewhere on this…

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If you want to turn your srt into titles there’s also Caption Burner from FXFactory

https://fxfactory.com/info/captionburner/

I import my MacWhisper srt files into that and then mess around with all the setting s to make them look how I like. There’s quite a lot you can adjust to get them looking how you like.

OK it doesn’t mesh with FCPX, which was the original poster’s ask, but I have to say I’m blown away by the accuracy and speed of MacWhisper as a standalone transcriber for audio. I’ve thrown some poor quality audio at it, even with some jargon and names, and it’s done an amazing job. It also copes with stumbles, repetitions, ums and ers, etc,…

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So your screenshot has helped some. I was looking for Show/Hide Library sidebar (which is what the tooltip calls it) but now I can see on your image that the Command Editor just calls it ‘Show/Hide Sidebar’, and yes it’s there, and seems to be assigned correctly. BUT I’ve noticed the keyboard layout looks like a different language, and maybe this…

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Yes Doug, it hides the left hand column ie where your library name(s) and its events are, so giving more room for the list of clips if you’re in a particular event and marking them up.

For some projects and workflows I find it quite useful.

I can do the same thing with a mouse-click of course, and the tool tip still displays as ‘Show or hide the…

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I used to sometimes use the Command-Tilda combination in FCPX to show or hide the Libraries column. I can’t remember whether this was a default key command or something I customised, as I’ve been using it for years. I also only use it occasionally, so not sure if it has been lost in the last update or longer, but it’s weird I simply can’t find it…

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Thanks guys. I think Mads’ solution (creating a timeline with all clips) will prob work best for me, as the original libraries are scattered a bit, and the ideal would be to consolidate everything into one much bigger library in a way that preserves access to all previous projects, but lets me get rid of all the smaller libraries once I’m…

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Thanks, but if I have some clips which I didn’t use in Projects in the smaller Libraries, but which I may need in the longer combined project, I guess they’re not going to come across using this method?

I tried this once before and ended up in all sorts of mess, so am wondering if anyone out there has worked out a decent workflow for doing this.

I currently have several modest Libraries (between 20 to 120 Gb each), each with one or more Projects, a few Compound clips, and ALL footage consolidated within them (which with hindsight, may have been a…

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I’m trying to speed up my captioning (.srt) workflow, and wanted to make a keyboard shortcut for ‘Got To Next Caption’, which at the moment only seems to be a mouse-clickable arrow when a caption box is open.

Anyone know a way to create this?

(I’m holding onto Mojave as long as I can, so looking for this on FCPX 10.4.10)

Also, in general, I was…

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With my 1080 footage, FCP was obviously a big drain on the battery, and four hours on an M1 sounds amazing!! I’d be looking at around a max of a couple of hours battery power when full on editing my 1080 footage with some grading and transitions and occasional other effects. But the jump to a few minutes on 4k is rather unexpected.

I’ll try…

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Old 1080 footage runs fine – seems like the only change is the camera file format – what concerns me is that the change seems rather disproportionate.

I haven’t come across ‘Coconut Battery’.

Certainly the playback could be expected re 4k, fair enough, though I was hoping my laptop would handle at least a single 4k stream as it’s the 2.9GHz, has the Radeon Pro 460 graphics card and 16Gb memory.

Battery wise, I’ve checked with activity monitor now, and can see that there is a massive drain going on during playback for a process called…

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I’ve been editing 1080 50p footage from a Lumix GH4 for years without probs on a high spec 2016 MBP running Mojave and FCPX 10.4.10

Recently upgraded my camera to GH5M2 and have been doing some shooting in 4k.

Now that I come to edit, I’m finding two things. On mains power, the video playback can be a little jerky – workable but noticeable.

But the…

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Not keen on Big Sur as I have a lot of plug-ins, quite a few of which might not yet be ready, and versions of FCPX above my current one don’t offer me much other than Big Sur compatibility. Apart from this one issue, now resolved, I have a very smoothly running system I’m happy not to mess with.

Wow, thanks for all the analysis, links and suggestions. Much appreciated.

I think I was so used to what you describe as ‘inode’ lookup working flawlessly, that I assumed I could just drag stuff from one library to another and it would sort itself out, and clearly there was something about the way I was proceeding that caused the problem.

I think…

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Opening the library on the new MacOS Extended Journaled disc, there were, once again a few files missing from one of the events. When I try to relink, the pathname points to the ‘Original Edits’ folder in the library on the new disc. As mentioned above, inspecting package content reveals there’s a whole load of media sitting in that folder that…

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Hi Joe

I wasn’t aware of this requirement re drive format, and yes the SanDisc is exFAT.

I’m not confident this is the issue as I’ve realised one of my main 4Tb archive discs is exFAT with many dozens of libraries on it all running fine.

However, I’m copying on to a back up disc, will reformat the SSD as MacOS Extended Journaled and let you know if…

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Trid that on the off chance, but no cure I’m afraid. I was sceptical because I’ve always created an event called PROJECTS in all my smaller libraries and never had these problems before.

The weird thing is that when a file is reported as missing, mostly if I open up pacakge contents and look in the original media of that event, it IS actually…

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A bit more info:

If I try relinking one of the missing files, it tells me it’s expecting it to be in an event I created called “Projects” which is where I’ve put all the original projects from the smaller libraries.

So, I locate the large library in the ‘relink’ dialogue, it appears to find and verify the file, so I press relink, and it still…

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Using FCPX 10.4.10 on Mojave here, and normally running sweetly with no problems but I’ve started working on a bigger project and having major headaches.

Over the past year I’ve filmed around 30 short pieces, each with their own libraries, with all files consolidated within those libraries.

Now I need to edit a larger project taking clips and stills…

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A quick update. The orange lines DO sometimes appear for a while on restarts. Would I be right in thinking that this suggests a bug or a problem with a particular installed plug-in rather than a preferences issue (which wouldn’t have them working sometimes but not others?). And yes, I’ve checked and rechecked that I’m not looking at the wrong…

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Frank: This has happened over several projects and restarts unfortunately.

Jeremy: I hate trashing prefs because I’ve got everything set up how I like it, but I fear I may have to try this.

Joe: Yes, I know it’s easy to be caught out on this, but I’m definitely in the project I should be seeing the ‘used’ lines.

I’m on FCPX 10.4.10 here and I’ve noticed recently (and annoyingly) that used ranges of clips are no longer showing their orange line indicator in the browser. I’ve tried switching that option off and on again in View > Browser > Used Media Ranges, but it is definitely selected as on at the moment. Favourites and keywords are working fine with…

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Do you know whether the free version of frame.io allow this, or will there be limitations?

Doh – even simpler for me – I have an older laptop running something pre-Mojave – it might even be Mountain Lion! – just didn’t think of running the xml file over to that – in my head I just felt it had to be all on the one machine – so obvious now you mention it. Thanks.

Works a treat and very useful. Cheers.

Thanks Andreas – I’ll take a look at that. All the best.

I wanted to try this software as I’m having some probs with lost plug-ins while opening older projects, but it looks like it might be broke now for FCPX 10.14.10 and/or Mojave?

I get the following warning message when trying to launch:
” “doesn’t understand the “<<event XML Indt>>” message. (-1708)

Sorry maybe my problem wasn’t really clear.

I’m trying to open and then update old libraries so they will all run on current 10.4.10 version.

It looks like anything from 10.2 upwards will automatically update if I open the older library in 10.4.10, so I won’t actually need to install FCPX3 at all.

However, I have some really old stuff edited in a…

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I need to update some early FCPX projects. Can anyone confirm whether it’s OK to reinstall earlier versions of the app (FCPX2 and 3) while I’m mainly running FCPX 4 on my laptop. Will there be any preference file clashes or other such issues? I don’t need different verions running at the same time, but I do want different versions running at…

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Thanks. Nice simple software. I realised the problem was probably frame rate as original was 30fps and I’m working FCPX in PAL 25fps. So using Handbrake I did a quick conversion to .mp4 at 25fps – quality seems good, sound is there, and FCPX is playing nice.

I love this forum!!

I’ve used Movavi Screen Capture to record a Zoom interview on my MacBook Pro (late2016 running 10.14.6).

The app first creates an .mkv file (which will play back using VLC etc. but isn’t importable to FCPX 10.4.10). It also has the option to save the recording as an .mp4.

My first attempt at this produced a file which played back fine in VLC,…

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