I've recently upgraded to the newest version of FCP (10.6). I noticed that the reset arrows are gone in the Transform and other areas in the Inspector (and replaced with what I believe is called a dropdown menu caret). Is this a setting I can change, or am I missing something? Or is this just another change Apple has made that will slow down my workflow?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
Click the little down arrow and the first option in the menu is "Reset Parameter".
Click the little down arrow and the first option in the menu is "Reset Parameter".
I had not even noticed this change.
The way it is now is identical to what has always been in Motion.
Yes, it adds an extra click, and adds extra options, and matches the behavior of a sister application.
Luis - You've wasted too much time, but you weight in in order to try to have the last word.
With the blade, you could tell exactly where the cut was to be made by the corner of the blade. The cut was always immediately to the left of the point of the corner of the blade. Positioning the scissors properly takes more time and attention. They must be centered. That is the change in functionality. It's that simple. I'm far from the only one with this complaint.
The blade was simple. Why would I want to place the play head and then have to move my hand back to the keyboard to make a cut? It was much simpler using just the mouse and the blade icon. If your preference varies, fine. You arrogantly announced your preference as the only proper one citing someone else and asserting that anyone who cares about productivity will share your preference. That is condescension.
Apple owns the software.
We do not know why they made this change
The only thing any of us can do is to let them know, using feedback:
Final Cut Pro->Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback.
No, there isn't.
Hello - I appreciate your answer, but I saw that, and that is an extra step I really don't need. I use "reset" constantly, and clicking that dropdown menu will waste a lot time and is severely annoying. Is there any way to put it back like it was, or did Apple help me out once again with adding more steps to my work?
I appreciate your answers, but what I'm really looking for here is if this is a change that I can't do anything about or if it might be something I can change through customization.
[I know about that feedback link, and I've never seen it accomplish anything. One time I found an actual fault in the program and managed to get ahold of a senior enough tech in a phone conversation that he actually relayed the message to the right people and they fixed it. My going to that link and telling them this is a hassle or that the replacement of the mouse blade icon with scissors is a problem for me is not going to accomplish anything (in my experience).]
I am a just a user like you.
If you can talk to someone at Apple, fine.
You can see how clicking the menu may have some impact on your workflow
But come on, to complain about the scissors is childish, I have to say. Whoever sees that? Anyone who uses FCP will do Command-B to Blade. That one I only know about because I heard Steve Martin say, basically, he doesn't care, because he never sees it. Neither do I. And if you care about productivity, neither will you.
Listen, Luis, don't get on here and condescend to me. I said I appreciate your answers, but the fact is that if I saw that drop down caret and went to the trouble of photoshopping that image for this post, I obviously clicked on it and saw Reset at the top of the the menu.
Complaining about the scissors is not childish. With them, making a cut is far less accurate. If I didn't find it so, I obviously wouldn't mention that. Whoever sees that, you ask? Obviously, if I'm mentioning it, I do.
The statement, "Anyone who uses FCP will do Command-B to Blade" is absurd. I obviously don't do that, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I do care about productivity. I make well into six figures as an editor. So keep arrogant comments like that one to yourself. Do you really think that because you do something a certain way, or even you and a group of people, that that way is the only reasonable way?
I did not say I can get ahold of someone at Apple about this. I said that the only time I've ever gotten anything done was one time when I was able to get to a senior enough tech to whom I could point out what was objectively an error in the software, and that they corrected.
This is a community to ask questions. If you don't the questions are relevant or you think the way I edit doesn't make sense, keep your condescending comments to yourself. I'm here to get an answer to the question I asked. I'm not here to hear your philosophy on video editing.
Complaining about the scissors is not childish. With them, making a cut is far less accurate. If I didn't find it so, I obviously wouldn't mention that. Whoever sees that, you ask? Obviously, if I'm mentioning it, I do.
You complained about the scissors... The only that changed was an ICON - it was a blade, now it is scissors.
There was no change in functionality.
I would rather they had left the blade, but really does it matter?
What do you even mean by " With them, making a cut is far less accurate"? This is surreal.
Place the playhead, Command-B. Frame accurate. Why d
You are a professional making money from editing. I am a professor, a mac enthusiast and a video hobbyist.
I have wasted too much time on this. Good editing. Good luck.
It seems to be changed at some system level. The scissors appears in 10.5.4 in Catalina. You have to go back to 10.4.10 to get the blade icon back. The notch/V of the scissors is the cut point, which seems pretty accurate, though is really defined by the clip skimmer rather than the icon itself. Steve's thought that it was based on iMovie was incorrect as the tool isn't available there.
Honestly, I hadn't even noticed the icon had changed. As an Avid Media Composer refugee I always edit with one hand on the keyboard and the other on a trackball or mouse, though FCP does have more modifier+key commands requiring a little more dexterity. Avid used lots of single key commands.
A single key command I use a lot: hold the b key down, then scrub the timeline with the mouse to find your cut point, and click when you do, then release the b key. You have a cut where you want and the cursor reverts to whatever its previous state was (select, trim, etc.). IMHO faster and easier than Command+B. I believe this hold-the-shortcut-key-down-for-a-temporary-override works with all the tools.
Okay, thanks. And I take it there is no customization that allows it to be changed back?
Are the FCP parameter reset buttons gone?
