Sometimes I miss the old FCP Tracks

If my project was in FCP 7 it would have two tracks of video and three of audio (Ambient, Voice Over and Music).
Because of the nature of FCP X, these are somewhat muddled on my storyline.
I want to 'tweak' the VO a little, to make it snappier, so I selected all the VO clips and made them into a Compound.
Unfortunately, some of the clips have moved during this process - and because they are now detached from the video, it's hard to move them back.
Fortunately, I backed-up the project before doing this, so I'm able to go back but now I'm going through the clips one by one, because although I was able to paste attributes, this doesn't enable the audio Enhancements, so I have to go through them one at a time.
(Or do I)?
Andy

I'm feeling your pain Andy, I'm really feeling you pain!
I just completed the screenshot below last night, but when I opened it this morning to begin my export to ProRes, some of my synched audio was now somehow out of sync....
I can't begin to tell you what colorful language I was using....!
Anyway one lesson I did learn is that it's probably best we try avoid separating audio/video as much as possible. I know this shouldn't be the case, but with no sign as to when Apple is going to pull their finger out of their YOU NO WHAT! then I think it's best we begin to "simplify" the visuality of our timeline.
From my own persional experiance on this project, there is one tip I'd like to share. Once you have detached your audio from your video, just for sanity place a marker in the middle of your A/V clip which will act as a synching point. This way if they ever go out of sync, you can swiftly re-sync by aligning the markers.
Hope that ca be of some use to you.

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FinalCutProX vs the old FCP

Hi
I have no background in the movie business but i anyhow get into the old FCP many years ago. I have been struggling and tried to learn the way to look at movies in the old days but i have not been so sucessfull. I have said to myself many times that i have to know how to make "real" movies to myself before i start with the old FCP.
Now with Final Cut Pro X i realise that this was true. Apple has made it understandable to edit movies for us that dont have the background in the movie industries.
I just downloadet it yesterday and can say much about it more than "this is how a Movie Editing program should work 2013." And it works with OSX 10.6.8 and that makes many Mac owners happy.
I will dig into it now and i think i will end up with some questions here.
It was long time ago Apple suprised me in this great way after the 10.7 and iOS7 disaster,
Great work Apple
Btw. I found this great Tutolrial of how to use Final Cut Pro X at Izzy Video.
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/

Bobbyco57
I know that some are happy and some are dissapointed. I think maybee i am to old to think all the new stuff is cool. Thats one thing and thats ok with me. But what i have problem with is when Apple take away functions and that there are so many bugs and problems.
I feel that I am the beta tester of some of Apples products and i dont want to be that. I am running a bussiness and dont want loose time and money because I have to sit and find out som function now not working after upgrading. Its Apples responsibility to deliver a product with as less bugs as possible. Apple is second to none so far but if this continue with new versions and upgrades 2-5 times every year it takes to much time.
Of course if people are using Apple product private and are intrested in computing and can spend much time with updates and new stuff its ok.
But i can tell you its a nightmare when a new update comes to either iOS or OSX when you have a staff with 8 iPhones and 14 Macs. When we ugraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7 our business was down for 6 days. Happely we downgraded to 10.6.8 and get our business up running again.
Final Cut Pro X semes been a well written Application from start and i hope the FCPX guys keep ut the good work.

Opening new desktop sometimes shows me the old wallpaper

Sometimes when i change my desktop wallpaper to new one, and when i add new desktop it shows the old wallpaper... and sometimes when i change my wallpaper and restart my mac my old wallpaper shows up, when i try to change "Desktop & Screen Saver" in the preview it shoes the new one but it gives me the old one

Change Picture has not been selected.

I miss the old Homesite

I'm in a bit of a delima. I have used an old version of
Homesite for some time now. It was the version that would allow the
three views; edit, preview, and the editable WUSIWYG screen. As I'm
sure all of you know, this version will no longer work with any
updated windows XP.
My needs are VERY basic, and I only edit one page at a time
for my Yahoo Store. Does anyone know of a web authoring software
that will work lik the old Homesite? I like the speed of the
wusiwyg interface, but the ability to view and edit the code. I
first started editing html back when it first came out, but all
this new-fangled technology has my head spinning. Yes... I'm old.
Thanks in advance!

Nvu - www.nvu.com/index.php
It's free, open source and standards compliant.

I just updated to the latest version of firefox yesterday. Since then,the browser has been very slow & unresponsive. When I go to tools 2 clear recent history it takes forever and then sometimes freezes. The old version worked perfectly and was very fast

Should I just go back to the old version of firefox? my OS is windows 7

Unfortunately it can not be recommended that you go back to firefox 6, some of the fixes were security fixes, and firefox 6 is no longer considered secure or supported. ( Firefox 3.6.23 was updated and is still temporarily supported, but I doubt many would consider downgrading that far)
* see [[installing a previous version of firefox]]
Check that all your extensions are up to date. Possibly it is due to a change in the version or combinations of themes plugins and add-ons that you use. You clearly have out of date plugins showing.
*try http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ & See also
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** [[basic troubleshooting]]

For All Those Who Miss The Old Layout After Upgrad...

So yeah, I feel your pain but I've found a kind of workaround that will give you some of the missing layout features you miss from the previous versions of Skype, including the compact view and opening chats in new windows.
To do so, follow these steps.
Log into Skype, (obviously).
On the page that appears click VIEW.
Then click on SPLIT WINDOW.
Then close the second window that appears.
Please be sure to tell anyone you know about this topic and to reply to keep others aware of the workaround.
It should also be noted that you'll still be running 6.21 or 6.22, so any changes to the client itself will still be in effect and some of the minor cosmetic changes, (such as borders and colour schemed), will still be present too, but fundamentally it will look and work like previous versions.
Admin's: please feel free to pin this topic if a great deal of people find it helpful, I definately think that others would be happy with this help.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

There's also a really useful blog article that summarizes how you can tweak the new layout: http://blogs.skype.com/2014/11/13/getting-to-grips-with-the-2014-skype-layout/
NanaTeppler wrote:
I just upgraded to version 6.22.0.107. My chat window for IMs now has blue text on a lighter blue background. Now some of us are old and decrepit and find this difficult to see. Is there a way to change the chat area text back to black on a white background?
Currently there's no option to deactivate the blue chat bubble background, but we've heard the feedback from quite a few users and are looking into how we can improve the readability.
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I am missing the old view option

I haven't used this in years, but it seems like there was an easy way to view the site structure form a hierarchal view.. ie: when I clicked on the button,I could see a graphical representationon of all the files and folders and how they linked to one another as well as any broken links, etc.
How can I get that view in DW CS4... it seems to be gone.. darnit.
Thanks,
Tom

It is there but well hidden. For good reasons - it has not kept up with some of the more recent design standards (see below)
If you are comfortable editing the Registry in Windows - being sure to back up everything first - look for the following entry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\Feature Management
and then change key SiteMap from FALSE to TRUE.
You may have to define the home page and the layout options in the site definition.
Note: it does not do well with finding menus defined in css files and/or server-side includes.It was a lot more useful back in the (bad) old days of DW8.
Barry

The old FCP not opening thing

I am again faced with FCP not opening. I did have it working earlier today but the cable connecting my external HD popped out of the USB socket. Since that its refused to open. Ive tried to open without the external HD attached and ive used FCP rescue. In the past a ditch of the plist followed by disk utility{repair disk permissions has seemed to work but this isnt budging. Any ideas out there as to what has become corrupted? i treid also to open resetting the scratch at the prompt, changing them to the hard drive but that didnt work either.

Thanks for the advice,
Ive used this drive nearly exclusively on my Mac and only recently started using it as a capture scratch for FCP. Ive used it recently to copy my i tunes folder to another second MAC but its rarely been in a pc and then only for music. I didnt consiously format it for a PC
The project file in question is on the external (Lacie 250). I can see it all and open it, the icon is on the desktop
Ill try the Autosave tomorrow,ive tried to open other projects from internal and external locations with no success.
I captured via firewire from a camera. To get this work done done i was thinking of moving the drive to another Mac but you think the drive is the problem?
Can the capture scratch from the lacie still be used? I omported files from my external drives FCP capture scratch using iMovie today no problems.
Hope this helps

"infinitely more powerful than iMovie, yet infinitely less intimidating than the old Final Cut."

Best q&a on final cut pro x yet:
Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X/

RobertBryce wrote:
If we assume that what this guy says is true, and Apple is going to fix the things he says they'll fix, it still doesn't get rid of the idiotic "Magnetic Timeline". I can't imagine a single situation where that feature would be advantageous, except maybe for wedding videos or you're home-made vacation youtube videos.
I edit projects that are absolutely, positively locked in time. All the time. The magnetic timeline isn't something new. Lots of systems have that feature. The difference is: other systems have an off-switch!! Or rather; an on-switch! Because using this feature is unusual; I only turn it on once or twice, per project. And I might spend up to several weeks on a single project.
Oh, and another thing. Why would you even consider releasing a "pro" app, without having support for true HDSDI-output for monitoring and scope? No professional shop in the world will even consider using FCPX before they fix that!
I so agree, the Magnetic timeline is what kills it for me. And not just why you said. The non-assignable tracks kills it for me. I cut commercials and regularly have 18 video tracks and 12 audio tracks and each one is for a specific thing. Not only with audio, but video, like all texted on specific tracks so that a textless can be quicly and easily made. Without this, no matter how many features they add, the program will never work for me for video, ever.
What makes it ever funnier to me, is that the old FCP timeline was so good that Media Composer 5.5 added a function to switch to it, and now Apple has basically killed it. Looks like I am doing the $999 upgrade to Media Composer from FCP 7!

Can I use my old FCP 3.0 in current up-to-date OS 10.5.6 environment?

Back a few years ago I used FCP a lot but then switched professions and haven't needed it -- or upgraded it -- since. My version is FCP 3.02 full retail store version. Today I tried to open it to do a little tiny real estate project and it said "Need original CD". So I got the Install CD-ROM out, put it in and nothing happened. Decided to re-install the software by removing the old FCP 3.02 and associated files and re-trying the install process -- to no avail. Says I need the original CD. I can't get any more original than the CD that came in the big honkin' box from Apple!! So now what? Does FCP 3.0 just not work on OS 10.5.6? How can I even upgrade to a newer version is I can't get this one to install? Help!!

FCP 3 was the first crossover from os9 to osX. I sincerely doubt you'll be able to run it.
to upgrade to the current version of studio, you don't need to install 3 first, just have the serial number handy.

I need the "old" FCPX for my Mac book

Where can I download the "old" fcpX, I bought one two years ago and use it on my I Mac.
Now I want to use it on my Mcc book pro (an old one, MAC OS X 10.6.8 8GB Ram) if I travel

Not trying to police anything, but if you have a legitimate, licensed version of Final Cut Studio on your iMac, it was installed from a set of disks _ not a download.
That license allowed users to install on one desktop and one laptop, So those same disks should be used to install the apps, including the "old FCP" on your MBP.
I don't recommend copying the apps. It will probably work fine most of the time but far too often, problems arise down the line that would be avoided by a "clean install" of the apps; then – very importantly –successively running Software Update until there are no more updates.
If you would like more input on this, post over at the Final Cut Studio forum.
Good luck.
Russ

Have a macbook with the old fashioned trackpad. Sometimes when I am typing, it seems like someone clicks my trackpad. I have set my macbook up to where you have to press the trackpad button instead of just tap the track pad. Any ideas?

Have a macbook with the old fashioned trackpad. Sometimes when I am typing, it seems like someone clicks my trackpad. I have set my macbook up to where you have to press the trackpad button instead of just tap the track pad. Any ideas?

Sometimes during the "old-fashion" macbooks there is different feelings in the way you control it. Take it to the apple store and I am Pretty sure they can tell you what is going on and if it is "Time for a Upgrade".

HT4970 does any one else miss the month at a glance that the old version of reminders had? I wish Apple would bring that feature back.

Does anyone else miss the month-at-a-glance feature from the old version of Reminders app? I wish Apple would bring that feature back. It made it very convenient to schedule for the future.

You can send feedback and let Apple know
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How to show individual track information (like in the old iTunes) of a single artist (or that artist's album) without all the noise of every single other artist close in the alphabet?

The new iTunes has truly added extra visual noise.
I am trying to view a single Artist and the individual track information of that artist. This used to be how itunes was, you could click on a single artist and then the tracks would all have their various categories.
I can still see this but only in the "songs" category and in that I have to see every single song or artist alphabetically.
How do I simply see the artist, and that artist's tracks, as well as the different info about that track I want to see, such as "name, track #, time, year, genre, bit rate, kind, etc."
Please don't counsel me on what information I need to see, or suggest that I stop caring about this, or ask me why I want to see this various info.
It was simple and accessible in the older version and I would probably stop complaining to all of my friends about the latest version of itunes if I can see this old format.
Or... is there a way to re-download the old version? It's okay that you've made mistakes, every company makes mistakes, if I can revert to the old version that would be great.
Thank you.

Select the Songs tab, then under iTunes Menu select View then click Show Column Browser. You will see the familiar GENRES ARTISTS ALBUMS header, click on one artist and you will have only the artist's albums and songs showing in the window below with all the specific info you selected under View options. If this is not what you wanted, simply reply with a nice "no thanks".
Search this forum for instructions to reinstall iTunes 10.7, there are quite a few posts explaining the process.

How do I track an old (stolen) ipod touch if I already synced a new ipod touch with the old information without knowing it would not allow me to track my old ipod but my new one instead?

I lost my iPod touch (4th generation) over a week ago and did not think I installed the icloud on it. When I was setting up my new iPod touch (4th generation),
I saw that it automatically shows an option for icloud. That made me realize that I probably did install icloud in my old ipod. The problem is that I synced my old ipod with my new ipod on the computer. I thought if I didn't I would loose all of my old infomation. So now evertyime I use the app to find my iPod, it finds my new one. It shows only one device located under it. Is there a way I could find the old iPod? Or could I restore my new iPod and find the old one that way? I'm afraid if I restore it I would loose all my information from my old ipod.

That makes no difference in finding/tracking your lost/stolen device.
The old device will only show up in icloud.com if you previously turned on FIndMyiPod on the iPod in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
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- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

Sometimes I miss the old FCP Tracks

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