Please can someone help me to turn off every single piece of magnetism or stickiness or whatever it's called on the Final Cut Pro timeline. I know it's useful for many many people, but for what I need to do it's 😭
Even the squiggle key doesn't free things up.
Thank you for any help at all. I'm at my wits end 😳🤞
Select all your clips and type Command-Option-Up Arrow. Then type Command-Shift-G.
⌘⌥↑ will move ALL your clips out of the magnetic timeline into a "secondary storyline" (placing gaps into the magnetic storyline), ⌘⇧G will "break apart" the secondary storyline "grouping" — then you can put your clips wherever you want in time.
Select all your clips and type Command-Option-Up Arrow. Then type Command-Shift-G.
⌘⌥↑ will move ALL your clips out of the magnetic timeline into a "secondary storyline" (placing gaps into the magnetic storyline), ⌘⇧G will "break apart" the secondary storyline "grouping" — then you can put your clips wherever you want in time.
I am puzzled as to why you can't use the magnetic timeline as it is one of the "selling points" of FCP.
If you really need a conventional editor you should try the free version of DaVinci Resolve. It has more features than FCP and allows infinitely finer control of every aspect of editing.
The only things you would miss in the free version are the Magnetic Mask and Voice Isolation.
Yep, perhaps I should have tried that first. To be honest I didn’t try it cas it looked complicated.
Music videos. Need to sync videos of DJ to audio plus few pics. I slide things around matching on waveform. FCP keeps moving and grabbing things and won’t let go…. till now thank you 🙏
if you mean, the snapping behaviour of clips in the timeline, you can Turn snapping on or off by default shortcut "N" thats it. you should see the highlighted magnets in the image bellow go grey (off) instead of blue (on). otherwise you can also just click it.
Yes!! I'm no longer locked in timeline concrete \\o//
Thank you so much for your speedy and marvellous advice.
Nice one fox_m 🙏
Cheers 😁
Put the audio on the magnetic timeline and put the pictures wherever you want above it.
Do what Tom says and it will be a doddle! I knew there was a simple solution but I couldn't remember it.
Thank you all Gents for the suggestion. Much much better, it worked fine 😎🙏
Turn off all Final Cut Pro timeline magnets
