I find that sometimes (rather too often) when I click at close zoom (10s or less) that the timeline display jumps to somewhere completely different. Its making editing very difficult.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong or touching the (magix) mouse in some way that makes the timeline jump to the start. Otherwise its a halucination ...?
Anyone had that?
iMac
Afterwards, I note, the mouse is in one place on the timeline and the edit cursor is about 7cm (onscreen) to the left. The only solution seems to come out a zoom level (command -)
I'm seeing the same problem and I hate it. In FCP7, you could zoom in or out and the playhead or the current selection would always stay centered in the timeline. I zoom in a click or two in FCPX and the timeline jumps wildly, usually to the beginning of the timeline.
Yep same bug here.
I will try the coming out a zoom level - I had been opening a whole different event in the timeline and then clicking back into the project.
Yes- I think most of us experience this big - please report it as such to Apple.
Final Cut Pro > Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback
The more of us that report it, the sooner Apple will do something about it.
Andy
Need to find the form or post to ensure Apple get it. I've seen other similar posts.
Sorry hadn't seen the post above. Please get this fixed
OK I reported the bug via FCP with a reference to this thread. Thanks
It would be nice to get a response from Apple here. For me my project is becoming untenable and there appears to be no solution apart from a bug fix
You won't get a response from Apple here.
This is a user discussion group.
As stated above, if you want to report it as a bug that will be helpful.
From within the project go to:
Final Cut Pro > Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback
Marking your own post as 'Correct Answer' when it doesn't provide any answer is not helpful to anyone.
(You can change it if you feel inclined to).
Andy
I though 'correct answer' meant 'edit answer' but it wasn't (isn't) and now I can't see how to remove it.
I did report it to Apple as above
totally ridiculous! I can't believe they haven't integrated a proper zoom function on FCP X. It took them 7 versions to get it right on FCP 7, hopefully it won't take them as long here. It's crazy, the timeline shifts all over the place. THE PLAYHEAD SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN THE MIDDLE!!! If they talked to any editor (AVID), this would be an obvious thing to develop.
leave a suggestion within FCP X. I think if everyone does that, something might happen. This issue is so frustrating when you're actually editin (as opposed to using it as a toy)
What version are you using?
10.0.3 problem is still there. Now, it doesn't jump to the beginning of the timeline. But it's not CENTERING on the playhead, skimmer or whatever you call it.
For what it is worth... I am starting to understand the zoom behavior in FCPX... moreover, I like it. I am so accustomed to the legacy zoom behavior in FCP Studio that I didn't consider that it might work differently in FCPX, I just thought it was broken in FCPX.
Basically, the zoom function doesn't care where the playhead is at all. It cares where your cursor is hovering above the timeline. Note that you have two vertical lines in your timeline. One is the playhead, the other is the location of your cursor. When you zoom in, the cursor location is where the zoom is centered. So if you move your cursor over your playhead, then zoom, you are zooming to the playhead.
This is perfectly acceptable behavior that allows you to instantly zoom to any location in your timeline simply by hovering your cursor there before zooming.
Hopefully this helps.
Matt
Using Final Cut Pro X timeline jumps
