How do you exit out of full screen mode for FCPX? ESC does not work.

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)

Posted on Nov 29, 2011 5:45 PM

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Nov 29, 2011 11:22 PM in response to eaglephot

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.

Sep 26, 2012 4:06 PM in response to eaglephot

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.

Sep 26, 2012 4:13 PM in response to eaglephot

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?

Sep 28, 2012 2:20 PM in response to Heathrow1111

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.

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