Timeline/playhead

Sometimes the timeline moves, sometimes the playhead moves. How can I control which moves?

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Sometimes the timeline moves, sometimes the playhead moves. How can I control which moves?
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cant figure it out.

Are those speed changes rendered yet? FCP does a LOT of things with active ram-- it's keeping track of every clip, subclip, sequence, nest; creates virtual media out of imported still images. That frozen bar is a pretty good indicator that you've maxed out the ram available to FCP. Restart the app or a complete reboot usually fixes this. render early and often!

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Why not mark it as 'Answered' (which you should do anyway) then post what you did to fix it. That would help others who encounter the same problem.
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I'm using Photoshop CC animation feature with the timeline (terrific feature btw), and I have a bug report... didn't find anywhere to resolve it, so I'm reporting it here :
While working on the timeline, if my play head is not on the right time (active layer is not visible in the timeline (cf. screen capture)),
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https://redpen.io/xseajy
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I see what the problem is. The project start time is one hour. In legacy versions if you typed 100 it always went to one second, you didn't have to type in the one hour no minutes one second to move the playhead.

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Is their a way to import clip in the timeline to their specific timecode, I have a whole lot of clip and I want to send them to the timecode they already have in the timeline. Is it possible? I haven't found any answers in the rest of the forum.
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Can't think of any way. You're way ahead of most people if you know about typing X to select the clip under the Playhead. That's the best way. There's also Mark to Markers (Control-A), but that's even more steps. In some cases that might be of help. You have to watch out for selecting the first frame of the NEXT clip when setting the end marker, though. If you use Down Arrow to get to the end of a clip, you're actually one frame into the next clip. Use Left Arrow to back up one.
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Without Mouse: Toggle between selected timeline video clips- Keyboard Only Method

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I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you say "the timeline video clip" but here are a few keyboard shortcuts that may help: the q key toggles between the Timeline and the Viewer windows; if the Timeline window is active, the up arrow key moves the Timeline playhead to the previous edit; the down arrow key moves the Timeline playhead to the next edit.
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Multiclip Editing.....AHHHHHHH!!!

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I just got done doing a 3 camera shoot. All the footage was shot to MiniDV Format, but due to the equipment, we don't have the luxury of having one master timecode across all three tapes. There are six tapes in all (3 cameras x 60 minutes @, 80 minute shoot). I put all six tapes in one multiclip.
When working with multiclips, the FCP user manual lists a way to sync clips together by using CtrlShiftClick and dragging. This is great if the clip is only out of sync by a few frames or seconds...... what if it is out of sync by 30 or 40 minutes? Is there a faster way? Again, I don't have the luxury of having master timecode. To make matters worse, for some reason, this clip's source TC reset to zero when it should be approx 00:40:00;00. Anyone have any tricks? Thanks! :-D

If this is all correct, then do this.
-Create a new sequence - name it 'multiclip test' or something similar.
-drop your uninterrupted audio clip on A1/A2 (then deselect the audio buttons so you don't overwrite it)
-In the browser, scroll to the 'Angle' column and type in 'A' for Cam1/Tape1, then 'B' for Cam2/Tape1 and 'C' for Cam3/Tape1.
-scroll back to the clip and dbl-click Cam1/Tape1
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-Do the same for Cam2/Tape1 and Cam3/Tape1
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-Hit and hold the 'Control' button...while holding it down, click on any of the 3 selected clips and choose 'Make Multiclip' (Make sure 'Synchronizing using In Points' is selected.
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-Dbl-click the newly created multi-clip and hit F10 (overright)
Now do exactly the same with your Cam1-3/Take2 clips. (the only difference being that you will place an inpoint on your timeline/sequence, where you know all 3 of these take2 clips will sync with audio)
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Some Questions on Advanced Actions window

HI
I have a couple of questions on Advanced Actions (using the CP7 trail version)
1. What's the function of the "Continue" action? Exit's the advanced action and advances the Playhead?
2. What does this comment mean "Nested calls of advanced action is a nice enhancement."? Is the decision tabs at the top of an advanced action page?
3. What's the function of the "custom" option in the IF statement - "preform action if - custom", it doesn't seem to do anything for me?
4. Where can i get information about timeline / playhead interaction with advanced actions i.e. where the playhead goes to the start of the slide again. e.g. custom question slide - displaying button, checking answers, feedback - when all/most objects are at the start of the timeline. I'm looking more for playhead functionality infromation rather than how to set up this type of question.
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Hi Lilybiri,
Thanks for your reply and the link to your blog.
Continue: Can you just explain yor statement "Continue can also be a choice in a conditional action, when one of the branching commands has nothing to do special but to advance.". When you say "branching command" i'm assuming you mean "IF ELSE statements" and "to advance" is that to the next decision if there is one? and if you didn't include "Continue" would it still advance?
Custom: I see what you mean the first is an AND statement and the rest are OR statements.
Nested advanced actions: I picked the term up from the Adobe web site comment by "Hari" on Shared Actions, who i took to be an Adobe person. Maybe i didn't understand the context.
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2013/07/shared-actions.html
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Video Filters

I have some DV footage which is "over exposed".
To adjust the exposure I have followed the following directions:
1. Drag a clip from the Browser to a video track on the Timeline.
2. Position the Timeline playhead anywhere on the clip so that you can see the clip in the Canvas window.
3. Select the cl;ip on the Timeline, and apply the Brightness and Contrast filter and the Proc Amp filter to it.
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Nothing happened when I adjusted each of the filters, nor when I Rendered or Played it back.
What am I missing?
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This is really really mysterious.
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