My mouse pointer no longer changes to the "trim" icon

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My mouse pointer no longer changes to the "trim" icon

When highlighting a clip in the timeline , pointer does not change from an arrow icon to a trim icon anymore. It used to change to trim when I would hover over the end or beginning of a highlighted clip. Now it just shows the mouse pointer (but trimming still works).

Even if I manually select "trim" for the action, the pointer still looks like the mouse arrow. So it.s hard to see when I am at the end of the clip to drag because the moue pointer arrow is all there is....

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 19, 2020 5:24 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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Dec 19, 2020 11:04 AM in response to jeff5656

Does the pointer look like this

or something different. Does this stuck pointer only show in FCP? If you're working in a text application does the pointer change to a cursor? You might try rebooting as well.

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jeff5656 Author

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Dec 19, 2020 10:02 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

it's 10.4.8

I wonder if the issue is with my Mac? It's not just trim. If I hit "b" to change to blade, it does not show a blade pointer - it still shows the arrow. Even though. the function is actual a blade!

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jeff5656 Author

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Dec 19, 2020 10:59 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Yes The preferences were deleted but the mouse curse till stays as an arrow. Eve the drop down too shows. a little picture of a blade tool when I press "b", but the cursor itself does not change to the correct icon.

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jeff5656 Author

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Dec 19, 2020 11:20 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Yes my pointer looked like that. So then I thought "maybe it's not just FCP". and indeed, in a browser, the cursor was not changing to a "hand" when I hovered over hyperlinks. SO I then stopped doing what I do every day "remind me tomorrow" whenever the Mac asks me to update. Is I updated the Mac and now it works!!!

Thanks to you both for responding and trying to figure it out. In a way, you solved it because when I deleted my FCP preferences and it did not work, I started wondering if it was the Mac itself and not FCP...

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Tom Wolsky

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Dec 19, 2020 5:28 AM in response to jeff5656

Start by resetting your preferences. Hold Opt-Cmd as you launch the application. What FCP version is this?

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Dec 19, 2020 10:29 AM in response to jeff5656

Did you delete the preferences, as Tom suggested?

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My mouse pointer no longer changes to the "trim" icon

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