Preferences won't save in 10.3?

Well I've tried lots of things. Luis mentioned something about all the computers on the same network... figured it might be a plugin. But, my colleagues are in totally different parts of the state in their own offices and own systems and they're experiencing the same thing. For the sake of testing though, I installed FCPX on a machine for the first time... FCP has never been on it (my wife's MacBook). I did not install any plugin effects, nothing. Worked with a few fresh project on that laptop and I continued to experience the same thing. Generally, after shutting the computer down and starting it back up an opening FCPX, all of my Index preferences (Start, End, Duration, Camera Name, etc.) would reset, and, how I wanted the files organized would reset from 'File Type' to 'None'.

So preferences are not sticking, even with a 'virgin' version of FCPX (no plugins... everything native).

I'm stumped and can only hope Apple addresses this in future updates.

Thanks for your advice, Geoff!

I know the color correction will remain open as long as the color board stays open, but I often go back and forth on things so it would be nice if it would always be there whether I keep the color board open or not.

As for the preferences, I've tried trashing my preferences using Preference Manager, but that hasn't helped. What do you mean by an app 'reset'. Also, what will the option and command keys do upon launching? Do I do that when opening FCP or upon start up of my computer? I'll give your recommendations a try once I know exactly what to do (spoon feed me... lol!).

PS- Another odd quirk I noticed is if I import a WAV file with one channel (I use WAV recorders like a Zoom H1 with a lapel mic for recording of wedding vows... only records to one channel), and turn it into dual-mono, it takes a lot of time to analyze the audio file before I can adjust the loudness or make other adjustments. In the previous version I could work on that stuff right away without the audio clip being analyzed first. My workaround... create a stereo file before importing it into FCP. Seems easy, but when you have to do that for hundreds of projects, that time adds up over the course of a year.

This may have solved the preferences issue! Tried it yesterday on one of my computers and so far, so good! Preferences seem to be 'sticking', even when migrating from one library/project to another. If it continues to stick, across all my machines, I'll come back and confirm this as 'solved'!

No, that's not checked. At least not that I know of (I've reset all my FCP's now... lol). I'll be importing another one of those projects today so I'll report back if that could have been indeed the issue. But I was pretty sure I made sure nothing else was checked other than import and create optimized media. However, there is one 'new' checkbox that I don't recognize. What is 'Audio Roles> Assign iXML track names if available' mean? That may have been checked in previous imports on my end.

Also... I certainly appreciate you taking the time out of your day to respond to my inquires!

Awesome... doubt that had anything to do with the WAV issue then.

Just to report back after almost a week of monitoring some of the possible solutions to get FCPX preferences to 'stick', it would seem that resetting the preferences by either the Digital Rebellion program or by doing the Option>Command option at start-up of FCPX has only yielded mixed results.

Although it doesn't seem to be happening as often, the preferences still do not completely stick. The timeline view will still randomly change from a preferred view to the most basic view and clip designations such as 'Duration', 'Content Created', 'Camera Name', 'Start', 'End'... etc... will still revert back to native settings order randomly as you go from library to library (which would subsequently reset the order if you go back to another library you had already ordered to a preferred order).

Organizing the file type also randomly resets. I'll set it to Group By 'File Type', only to have it revert back to native settings.

This is happening on three different mac's of mine. On all three machines I've deleted FCPX, re-installed it, reset the preferences multiple times... all to no avail.

Definitely a bug.

Figured the WAVE issue out... by highlighting one of the mono channels, the adjustment controls re-appear without having to analyze the clip!

I wish I've heard otherwise... another person on my team is also using FCPX in his home studio on two different machines and is experiencing the same problem. Another colleague of mine (and competitor... lol), is also having the same issue. She, in fact, is migrating over to Premiere it's frustrating her so much.

It's more of a nuisance to me and not that infuriating.