What are these diagonal lines in my timeline?
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I see those two clips are Compounds, so you're probably inside of a Compound Clip that has been placed inside of a Project or another Compound Clip timeline. Doesn't look like a Clip timeline to me like that.
You'd have to go back out to the parent timeline, and extend the end of the original Compound Clip.
You're not inside a project. Without seeing the upper left corner of the timeline, it's a line hard to tell, but it looks like you've opened a clip into the timeline and are editing inside the clip. The diagonal lines indicate the area of a clip that is outside the selected region in the project.
Actually, it wasn't a compound clip, it's a synchronized clip. And the diagonal lines were throughout the entire timeline except for that one spot in the screenshot. It ended up not saving and I had to do everything all over again. But I'm still curious how I got that. I got it again in the second project, but I undid it until the diagonal lines went away.
Right, what Tom said, what I was saying before. When you sync clips, it makes a Compound clip. When you open that into a Timeline, you have to manually adjust it's In/Out points when you change things inside the Compound.
You have opened the synchronized clip in the timeline. Look at the icons in the upper left of the timeline. If you don't understand them, post a screenshot.
Oh, one last thing. If you're dropping Compound Clips into a Clip timeline, you can't change the duration of a Clip timeline.
What are these diagonal lines in my timeline?