Hi guys. I cannot seem to find the exit to full screen viewing mode in final cut pro x. Escape key doesn't do the trick. There are no "exit full screen" buttons that pop up. It is confusing and I have to force quit the program every time I use full screen! Please help!
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
hi!... if you are using the esc key for another function try "shift + esc"... for example my esc key is used for speech preferences so i have to use shift + esc.
Shift escape worked for me. I had the same situation and problem.
Hi eaglephot,
When you are in full screen mode, move your mouse to the top of the screen. The menu bar with items like 'File' 'Edit', etc, should show up. In the top right corner, there is a blue button with two arrows. Click this and you will exit full screen mode.
Good luck!
There are two full screen modes in FCP X when running in MacOS X Lion.
Fullscreen playback:
Enter using the double arrow on the viewer or with command-shift-F.
Exit with the Escape key.
Fullscreen editing:
Enter using the double arrow on the top right of FCP X's windows or control-shift-F.
Exit using escape or control-shift-F.
This is how it works for me.
I am having the same problem although for clarity it is with Fullscreen playback. I have tried the following with no success: Escape, CMD-F, CMD-Shift-F, Control-shift-F, CMD-F12.
When I am in full screen and right click and get the Transform, Crop, Distort, None list but nothing else. The only way I can get out is CMD-Q and restart FCPX.
Anyone have any ideas? FCPX and lion are both fully up to date. I am a 27" imac with no additional monitors set up.
I'm on a MacBook Pro, OSX10.7.4, Final Cut X 10.0.5 and have the same problem (once I enter full screen playback mode, the only way to get out is to hit command Q).
The mouse moved to the top of the screen does nothing (no drop down bar). I've tried esc, tried command-shift-F, control-shift-F, nothing other than quitting the application via command-Q seems to work. Any advice?
I trashed preferences, tried command+1, nothing worked. I did finally discovered that the issue was not FCP specific. Even when in full screen mode for iPhoto, I couldn't escape the mode by hitting ESC. I'm embarassed to admit what the problem was....I discovered that I had previously mapped a different computer function to the ESC key and that was overiding its ability to get me out of full screen mode! I changed the mapping and it works fine now.
The Esc key alone should do it.
Maybe there is something wrong with your system. Did you try trashing the preferences?
Most of the times "Esc" key works. Anytime if its not working after hitiing "ESC" hit "COMMAND+1". This works!
Always COMMAND + 1 works for me. I'm using 10.0.5.
How do you exit out of full screen mode for FCPX? ESC does not work.
