Final Cut Pro Timeline Appearance ?

Hey guys,
I was looking on some websites and I found this screenshot, and i was wondering how to get the timeline too look like the one in the image..
heres the link to the image: http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finalcutstudio.png
thanks guys !
Dinesh

I believe David's correct.
Quick note to add to your answer...
You can move the windows around however you want and once you get them in a position you like...
hold down the OPTION button and select WINDOW - ARRANGE and then select one of the custom views. This will set it so you can always go right back.
Good luck,
CaptM

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Put simply, anything placed into the timeline soon goes invisible so that anything beneath, such as the desktop, becomes visible and if I click on what should be a video clip, I'm actually clicking on whatever's beneath Final Cut Pro, which then gets selected instead. Basically like a cookie cutter effect.
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I reinstalled Final Cut Studio, assuming whatever had gone wrong would be fixed, but it hasn't.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Any suggestions are welcomed, as I need to use Final Cut Pro quite urgently.

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I'm not sure what is going on here. After I've had final cut pro open for a while, sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few minutes, it starts having audio play back issues. It's really strange but sometimes it will only play back the audio of every other clip in the timeline. Sometimes it will play back all the clips but just the V/O or just the music track. And then if it happens to be choosing to play the V/O only and I pause and then un-pause, it will reverse and play the music but not the V/O and I can hit space bar as many times as I want and it will consistently alternate back and forth. I thought maybe I was pushing the system and after it rendered, this would go away. But exported all my timelines and burned a DVD, and the problem persisted. I've found that avoiding having more than one timeline open at a time helps (meaning I might be able to edit for several hours before the problem arises) but does not solve the problem.
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That sounds really weird.
The only time I've seen my system do anything near as crazy was due to a keyboard language change. For some reason my iMac, every so often, decides to slip into my secondary French Cdn layout. When it does, many of the key functions change, so when I think I'm doing one thing, I'm actually doing something completely different.
Any chance that something similar is happening to you and you are unknowingly toggling audio tracks on and off etc.?
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Something strange happening when I use Final Cut Pro. I've looked for help in the Final Cut Pro forums but it's looking to be an OS problem.
Look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/46227266@N00/460849229/ to see what I'm talking about.
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Another is to export self-contained and bring into Premiere to re-create chapter markers.
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I'm experiencing the same issue on two systems: a brand new 27" iMac and a 17" MacBook Pro. Both are running Snow Leopard.
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I emailed Focus Enhancements, the manufacturers of the FS-CF flash drive I use to recorde footage from my camera. They're aware of the problem. Here's the email I received:
Currently, there is an issue with Final Cut Pro X, Mac OSX Lion 10.7, the latest version of the Quicktime player (7.7 or any 10.0version and up) and our Quicktime HDV files. We have been working with Apple ona fix for this issue, however, I do not know when the fix will be available.The only workaround we know of at this time is to record in the .m2t fileformat and convert the footage to .mov (Quicktime).
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I tried the Pacifist route. It didn't work. And in my opinion, recording in .m2t and converting to .mov is a time consuming option, especially if you're on deadline. I'm going to dual boot my machines with Leopard and not upgrade iTunes.
iSkysoft's video converter is the only converter I've found so far that will convert my hdv files. But it pillarboxes the converted video and throws the audio 14 frames out of sync; issues that can be fixed in editing but then everything has to be re-rendered.
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R&B wrote:
Anybody know if there's a way to export a Quick Time REFERENCE file (not a full Quick Time .mov)?
I do the same thing with Final Cut Express, actually. Only I then open the reference file up in QuickTime Pro and re-export it to an h.264 mp4. I can do that multiple times in the background vs. getting caught up in Final Cut's pathetically non-threaded user interface when it's saving/exporting.
I was going to ask the exact same question here, but you beat me to it. And so far it sounds like the answer is "no" ... :-(
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#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane's Stock Answer #8:
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I hope someone can help me.
My final cut pro is in photo mode. over my timeline (middle left of the screen) , there is the icon movie and next to it the word "Photo". When I export my edit to Compressor i can use only the photo format and not the video even if im working on a video sequence. it is not recognized as such. it is weird.

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