My timeline moves to playhead as soon as I press pause, it's really confusing when I'm trying to make some precise adjustments while zoomed in, so I have to zoom out and zoom in again to find where I was.
Is there any setting to change this playhead focus and stay where you are on the timeline?
Not sure if you will be able to achieve what you want, but you may:
a) try making a range that you want to work on pressing the forward slash key to play "around the playhead".
b) set a marker (M) at the point you are interested in, and then quickly move to that marker using Move to Previous Marker: Control-;
or Move to Next Marker: Control-'
I place playhead to the point where I edit, zoom in a lot to see more, then press play. But when press pause to make little edits I wanted, timeline jumps to playhead because it is already out of my screen bounds. Any way to stop FCP from jumping to playhead after I pause?
Because I want to loop audio and have to move two audio clips one pixel here and there to match perfectly, and for me it's handy to be zoomed in. Playhead disappears in one second on my 13-inch display, therefore I have to zoom out and zoom in to find where I was, as I said earlier.
Sure I can click on the timeline right before these two clips over and over without a pause, but this is only one example. Timeline jumping to playhead position was driving me nuts in a lot of cases.
The playhead is meant to be at the point you are editing.
What are you doing?
Whenever you are trying to select a precise spot on the timeline it helps to turn off Snapping by pressing the N key.
Why are you pressing play when you have zoomed in?
If it is not spot on you can either grab the playhead with your cursor/mouse and drag it or else grab and drag the timeline to the frame you want.
Playhead is in the position where I edit, in case you think it's somewhere in random place and I completely don't know what's going on.
Sorry! Didn't see that you had already jumped in!
This may help, thank you!
Playhead
