I have changed my background canvas color too White through the preferences system... but it hasn't changed. Can anyone help me with this as I'm tearing my hair out!!
S
What are you seeing in the Viewer? Post a screen shot.
Hi Tom,
Sorry for the late reply, I've been away. Anyway, here is the screen shot.
As you can see, I have uploaded photos for a photo montage, as it is going on to a website I would like the side 'boarders' (where the photo isn't quite wide enough) to be white. I have changed the background in the preferences section to 'white' but it has not changed.
Any suggestion??
Sarah
Just a suggestion . . .
why not select the image in the timeline and press Cmd+4 to open the Inspector, then scroll down in the Inspector to find Spacial Conform. In the dropdown, choose 'Fill' and the image will fill the picture (no border).
If you prefer to have the black border either side, use a Custom Color Generator (from the Generators Browser).
Select the clip, then press Option+Cmd+ Up Arrow to lift the image from the timeline, then add the generator to the timeline, select it, and change its color in the Inspector.
Andy
Something is not right. Changing the background to white should work immediately.
Maybe you should trash the preferences and try again.
Very new to FCP X - how do I trash the preferences without losing anything that I have already cut together?
I'm still getting used to the fact that I no longer have A SAVE button!!
Ha!
Sarah.x
Don't worry, FCP X saves all your work and you won't lose anything if you trash your preferences.
Download the free app, Preference Manager - it's simple to use and extremely useful at times of need with FCP X!
Andy
Are you sure this is not the BG color on the CLIP, and not the canvas?
You can set the BG colour on the clip in the inspector..
Pretty sure Jakob, after I trashed my preferences, half of the clips now have the white background (border)... Am now investigating to why only half have changed!
I will check though, thank you very much!
S.x
I guess that you should have first done this and can even do it even now:
Have the entire project selected first; then open your preferences and choose your white background. This should allow your entire work to have a white background.
Message was edited by: somanna
somanna wrote:
I guess that you should have first done this and can even do it even now:
Have the entire project selected first; then open your preferences and choose your white background. This should allow your entire work to have a white background.
That is NOT the way it is supposed to work. The background color preference is global to the application, it does not work on a project by project basis. This preference setting determines what FCP X displays in the Viewer in areas where you have no content (or where the content is transparent) - as in the present case, where the photos do not cover the whole viewer area.
You can easily confirm this. Open some project with a transparent area, and set the background to say, white.
You should see white showing through any transparent area (that's what the OP was expecting, and it should happen!).
Now close this project, open something else. Switch to, say, checkerboard background.
Open the previous project and see the checkerboard (not white!) background.
One workaround for the present problem is to place a custom generator behind the content, and set its color to white. But of course this should not have been necessary.
Hello Luis,
Let me explain why I wrote what I had written.
In my last project, I had a few clips in which I had wanted the background to show and the background was black. A little into the project, I had need of having a checkerboard background temporarily [useful as guides for placement of trimmed clips]. After selecting the checkerboard background for that sequence, I went back to the previous clips to observe whether their background had changed from black to checkerboard...I found that the background had remained black. After placing the clips in their correct positions, I reverted to the black background once again.
I have not yet come to grips with FCPX and I apologise to all if what I have written earlier and even now is faulty.
I have changed my background canvas color... but it hasn't changed. HELP
