Ever since the upgrade to FCP 12, I see this at the bottom of the screen.
Subscribe to Edit?
Subscribe where to edit what?
Clicking on it does nothing.
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Original Title: Subscribe to Edit?
This is probably more appropriate.
With the release of Final Cut Pro 12, Apple has introduced a, "Creator Studio" subscription service that offers exclusive content, such as new title templates, generators, and effects, which can trigger "subscribe to edit" prompts even for users who own the standalone, one-time purchase version.
Here is what is happening and how to manage it:
To avoid these prompts, avoid using the new, specialized content in the titles, generators, or effects browsers that are part of the Creator Studio package.
This is probably more appropriate.
With the release of Final Cut Pro 12, Apple has introduced a, "Creator Studio" subscription service that offers exclusive content, such as new title templates, generators, and effects, which can trigger "subscribe to edit" prompts even for users who own the standalone, one-time purchase version.
Here is what is happening and how to manage it:
To avoid these prompts, avoid using the new, specialized content in the titles, generators, or effects browsers that are part of the Creator Studio package.
I too have seen this blue Subscribe to Edit panel, it appeared immediately after updating to FCP 12. Reported it to Apple via FCP Feedback.
It has always been visible at the bottom of the browser list, obscuring whatever item is beneath it. Prompted by Ian R. Brown's comment above I disabled all trial plugins in the FXFactory app settings, launched FCP and the Subscribe to Edit panel had gone.
I have more than 30 trial FXFactory plugins and not enough time right now to find the guilty item by elimination but will try this later and report back with any findings.
Steenbeck6Plate, this is both interesting and puzzling.
The button doesn't DO anything, so I have decided it is not worth worrying about any more. But it will be interesting to see if this is fixed/changed in the next update.
This looks like one of those unexplained glitches. Try deleting preferences. Any change?
Just to be sure... which of these two is the icon that you see for FCP:
If, as you say, you have the paid version, it will be the one familiar icon on the left. The purple one is the subscription version.
Exactly where on the screen and when do you see it?
Post a screenshot . . . hold down shift and command and press 3
Open FCP from inside the Applications folder, not the dock. Verify the icon there, launch from there, not the Dock.
Is it on the FCP interface or the monitor?
Drag the interface around and see if it follows.
This is what an AI search says but it refers to the subscription version:-
Key Subscription Details & "Subscribe to Edit"
So it looks as though the standalone version contains titles, generators and effects that only work in the subscription version.
Resolve is similar in that the free version has all the paid effects but if you try to use them you get a warning message and they appear on the timeline with a watermark.
Ian, this appears at the bottom left of the right-hand monitor where I have the browser set up in my saved editing workspace. In that setup, that screen is locked full screen and I can't move it. However, if I choose another workspace, it disappears. And if I then go back to my saved dual-monitor workspace, it's gone.
I checked for some Creator Studio titles, generators, or effects and I don't have any. None of them have a blue dot. I never tried out the subscription version and never downloaded anything related to it. My editing work is pretty simple, basic stuff. I don't use any eye-wrenching effects or fancy, animated titles in my work.
I don't know what it is, and it doesn't do anything, so I'm going to stop worrying about it. It's just THERE, but it is indeed...ODD
Did you update the stand alone version of the app, or the subscription version of the app?
I have the paid, stand-alone version of FCP 12. I don't need all the extra features that come with the subscription version.
I have FCP set up on two monitors. This appears at the bottom of the right monitor where I have the file browser.
If I click on it the button turns gray, but nothing happens.
It is the paid version for sure. Screen grab from the dock...
Ian, your question proved to be interesting. I have never edited video using only a single monitor. Ever since I started with Adobe Premiere on a Pinnacle Reel-Time Nitro system way back in the 90s, I have always used dual monitors. So, I reset the FCP workspace to the default single monitor setup and the button did not appear. However, when I went back to my saved dual-monitor workspace, it also did not appear! I then quit FCP, re-opened it, and the button was back.
It's magic...
It has the same icon in the app folder, and the result is exactly the same.
I know - FOR SURE - that this is NOT the subscription version of the app. I quit using all the various Adobe products because I think a subscription revenue model for any software is a ripoff.
What does 'Subscribe to Edit' mean in Final Cut Pro 12?
