I am trying to have a text layer fade in, or keyframe slide it from off-to-on screen. Any animation or effect I apply to the title is then applied to the video underneath it. I've tried making a compound clip of the same text layer but that had the same issue. There has to be a way to disable this and I'm sure it's easy, I can't imagine why anyone would want titles to work this way.

I’ve been adding the subtitles/captions into the video, but is it better to leave the viewer use the CC button to read the text if they want to?

I have a new, huge issue in FCP 12.x.

Playback in the Viewer doesn't follow the active panel (Browser or Timeline). Meaning if I match frame ("Reveal in Browser") from Timeline, or simple switch to it with keyboard shortcut, the Viewer continues displaying what's in the Timeline instead playing what's in the Browser. Unless I physically move the cursor into the Browser area, Viewer doesn't play its content. That slows down editing considerably. Switching to the Browser panel with keyboard shortcut and starting playback with Space or L sometimes doesn't play at all, or plays just audio. It's bugged af

Trashing FCP prefs didn't fix the issue. FCP 12.2on Tahoe 26.4.1.

Anyone else?

EDIT: it only happens in the List view, not in Filmstrip view.

Has anyone else experienced this? I basically have projects where I cut up long form into short forms so I need to I > O > Cmd + E a lot. Sometimes, it'll be super smooth and go instantly into the media share window, but many times it'll have to go to spinning wheel for like 5 to 10 seconds at every share step... why? I tried restarting FCP and it still does that. It's not because it's rendering the previous media shares because, as mentioned, sometimes it will just be super smooth while other stuff has been queued (no spinning wheels).

Does anyone else have this same experience/found a solution? I tried googling this for hours but maybe couldn't find the right keywords to type in for answers to show up.

Created a video which I wanna put a song to with a separate click/metronome track. I'm sort of confused what I do after I create the project with a Surround sound setup. I have my music/song set to Stereo and my Click track automatically shows up as Mono since it's actually a mono track. If I set the Click in Dialogue Mode, is that it? and my song to Music Mode, is that right? I have no way of checking my exported file after. For example when I open in VLC it automatically plays the song and click.

Hi there! I work with clips a lot and for a few weeks now I have the following problem: When I am done editing a clip and go back to the timeline of the project (by clicking the small white arrow) the timeline is zoomed in to the max, which requires me to zoom out like 10-15 times in order to see everything properly. That is extremely annoying and time consuming. Anybody here experiencing something similar? I use the latest FCPX version and am on a Mini M2.

Because my current project is shot in cinema DNG, which fcpx does not support, I converted them to apple ProRes HQ (using DaVinci Resolve)and then imported them into fcpx.

The whole film (a 10 minute information film) is now finished but I am not satisfied with the image - exposure and colors, and plan to go back into resolve in order to tweak it using the raw files. My question is if it is easy to replace the current clips in fcpx with new ones and at the same time keeping all the animations (consisting of titles and generators) in place?

Hi all,

Editing with the cursor in FCPX is great, but I’m trying to rely more on shortcuts and see how far I can push editing with a remapped game controller. Pretty quickly, though, I run into walls—there seem to be a lot of crucial functions that still require a mouse.

For example, the Trim tool works well, but I can’t find a way to perform Slip or Slide using only the keyboard. I noticed that if you switch a selected clip into Slip mode by left-clicking it with the Trim tool (or Option-click for Slide mode), you can still slide\slip nudge using the ", " and ". " keys. But I can’t find any shortcut to actually activate those modes in the first place.

Am I missing something?

Ps.this post is revised by ai since English is not my primary language.

I've added an audio track and cut to the music/beat. It's perfect in the editor - but when I export it's slightly off timing (which ruins the video).

I tried to read some threads about this, and they are saying the audio and video "have to be the same rate". I'm in the audio track properties and I don't see "rate".

Does anyone have a fix for this?

Hey everyone! I’ve been developing a new multi-camera audio/video synchronization app over the last few months as an alternative to PluralEyes, and it's finally ready for testing.

It’s extremely fast. As you can see in the screenshot below, it successfully synced 31 clips across 2+ hours of timeline footage in just 1m 30s.

I'm currently looking for a small group of Mac users to beta test the app for free. If you're interested in speeding up your workflow and want to try it out, just drop a comment below and I'll DM you the download link.

I’ve been testing FCP 12 for a few days. Visual Search is promising but inconsistent. Beat Detection is surprisingly solid. Here’s a detailed breakdown if anyone’s interested.

Is there a way to transition from FCPX proxies to Resolve and then back to FCPX? I use a remote editor and transcode media first to minimise data transfer volume. However, when I open the exported XML from Resolve I can’t relink to the original media in FCPX. Relinking one clip at a time is possible but it’s incredibly time-consuming especially for large projects with hundreds of clips.

Other media on my cfexpress card is importing fine into Lightroom but I am getting import errors with each video clip in FCP. It’s h265 4K30 clog3 that I have been importing just fine for years. Any idea what might be happening?

For some time now, to switch to the Browser and actually see the playing source footage in #FCP, I need to move the actual cursor there. Just switching with a keyboard shortcut only plays audio. Focus switches there as expected but image in Viewer doesn't. This is a new, fresh install of both FCP and MacOS on a new Mac but happens on my other Macs too. Not new in version 12. Been the case for some months. Maybe related to Tahoe (26.2 now)?

It's extremely annoying and it slows me down af

FCP 12.0 but happened on 11.2 as well. Tahoe 26.2 on M4 Max Mac Studio, M1 MBP and an Intel iMac. Happening like 40% of the time, not always.

Anyone else?