Managing which projects are in the timeline.

File menu, close library.

I feel your pain. I've been forced to convert to FCPX and, mother of all that's holy, I hate it and I deeply resent Apple's redesign of a perfectly fine, historically valid paradigm kist because they could. But don't let me get me started.

I think there is a misunderstanding in thinking of "projects open in the timeline".

There is only ONE project in the timeline at any given time.

The arrows are sort of "history", like the forward and backward buttons in a web browser.

It is not like an application like TextEdit, where you can have several windows, each corresponding to an open document.

If anything, it is the libraries that are FCP X's "documents", not projects.

You can open and close libraries, of course.

Projects are more like FCP 7's sequences; libraries are more like FCP 7's projects.

(of course, these are only approximations, since the paradigms are different, but I believe they may lead to a better understanding of how FCP X handles things)

I was not about to suggest compounds or storylines - though come to think of it... just kidding :-)

I understand what you are asking for, but I don't think there is currently such an option.

You can use the "Provide Feedback" command in the application itself to make a feature request.

I would think that going back and forth to erase items from the project navigation history might in the end be a bit clunky, though.

What I was going to suggest, though, is that if this is some kind of template, like a title, it would probably make sense just to create your own and have it there in the Titles (or Effects, or Generators, as may be more appropriate).

For example, if always do the same kind of modifications to a title, like changing font, size, position on screen, etc, then it makes sense to have your own version with all your settings as wanted, instead of doing the same changes over and over.

That assumes that you have Motion, or can have someone with Motion creating that title for you

(you only need Motion to *create* custom titles, effects, etc, NOT to use them)

Jim / Turnip Video wrote:

I am prepared to accept that this is not possible in FCP X. It's not the end of the world, but I'm surprised there isn't some way to manage this.

My response was correct. You close the library. That's it. Can't have more than one timeline thingy open at once. The illusion of the history arrows is misleading.

Everything I do in FCPX is requires accepting the things I cannot change in FCPX, or, my favorite litany today, it takes me ten or more clicks (expand audio, select audio info, turn off unwanted tracks, collapse audio, wait, I need to do an L-cut) to accomplish what a single click did in 7.

I was never scared of or by FCPX. Only ticked off. Still am, after three years. Every day. Every click.

I've got an Event (caps Apple's) that has four Projects. I ca bounce between them by double-clicking on them in the Browser.