Q: Issue with Dragging and Dropping Media and Transitions

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Gregory Dietrich

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Q: Issue with Dragging and Dropping Media and Transitions

I'm running the 10.0.1 version and for some reason I am unable to drag and drop media and transitions. It will occasionally work if I restart FCPX, but for the most part I am unable to move anything around. Anyone else run into this yet?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), LaCie Biggest Quadra RAID (2TB) / LaCie 2big Quadra (2TB)

Posted on Oct 3, 2011 8:46 AM

I have this question too

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Tom Wolsky

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Ca't help. I don't think I ever drag and drop transitions. Select the edit point, double click the transition.

Posted on Oct 4, 2011 2:52 PM

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by blimpmedia,Helpful

blimpmedia Oct 3, 2011 5:22 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich
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Oct 3, 2011 5:22 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich

Gregory, I've never experienced this....! Have you tried trashing Preferences and then repairing your disk permissions?
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Gregory Dietrich Oct 4, 2011 9:16 AM in response to blimpmedia
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Oct 4, 2011 9:16 AM in response to blimpmedia

Thanks for the tip...I have reset my .plist and we will see what happens. I don't have a lot of faith in this option, but so far so good. I'll report back in a day or to let you know if I have some improved stability.
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by innocentius,

innocentius Oct 4, 2011 9:26 AM in response to Gregory Dietrich
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Oct 4, 2011 9:26 AM in response to Gregory Dietrich

Have you tried to just double click an effect in the effect browser ? I guess you have marked the clip.
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Gregory Dietrich Oct 4, 2011 11:59 AM in response to innocentius
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Oct 4, 2011 11:59 AM in response to innocentius

Yes, does nothing for me. I'm find the issue to show itself when after I try to overlay a transition and it gives me a message that there is not enough media or something like that.
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Tom Wolsky Oct 4, 2011 1:36 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich
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Oct 4, 2011 1:36 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich

You don't have enough handle to create the overlap. If you switch your transitions preferences to full overlap you won't get that message, your project will get shorter though.
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Gregory Dietrich Oct 4, 2011 2:07 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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Oct 4, 2011 2:07 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

This doesn't make sense to me though since the two clips I'm trying to transition are 40 minutes long and 15 minutes long...respectively.
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Tom Wolsky Oct 4, 2011 2:45 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich
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Oct 4, 2011 2:45 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich

The length of the clips are not relevant. The handles matter.

http://www.fcpbook.com/Effects1.html
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Gregory Dietrich Oct 4, 2011 2:48 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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Oct 4, 2011 2:48 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks Tom...that seems helpful, but unfortunately doesn't answer my original issue of why after doing this I cannot do any more dragging or dropping in FCPx...even in other projects.
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Gregory Dietrich Oct 4, 2011 3:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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Oct 4, 2011 3:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Wow...you just taught me something awesome! I just tried it and worked perfectly!
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by ricktherepguy,

ricktherepguy Sep 28, 2016 4:42 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich
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Sep 28, 2016 4:42 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich

You bet!

I open my photos & Image drive (external), one a folder and start to move images around and into folders and when the image hits the top or side of the window it stops and I end up opening a second window in the same drive just to move a image into it correct folder - it's a real pain and it's starting to really bug me! It got to be some kind of bug!

Found any corrections yet?
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Tom Wolsky Sep 28, 2016 4:47 PM in response to ricktherepguy
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Sep 28, 2016 4:47 PM in response to ricktherepguy

TThis thread is from five years ago. Are you asking about Final Cut Pro or something else?
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Accepted Answer · Oct 4, 2011 2:52 PM

Tom Wolsky

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Oct 4, 2011 2:52 PM in response to Gregory Dietrich

Ca't help. I don't think I ever drag and drop transitions. Select the edit point, double click the transition.

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