browser limitation question

i'm working on a doc with LOTS of interview tapes. i've been breaking things
down using markers to denote subject matter breaks, useful soundbites, things
like that. i've been doing this without issue for quite some time. just now,
however, i've added a marker and noticed that the browser window is at the
bottom and will not scroll further. if i collapse the media clip in the browser to
hide all of the markers, then the rest of the media reveals itself as having
been out of sight, below the bottom browser item. the scroll bar behaves as if
there is nothing below this last item, even when i know there is. i seem to have
hit some limit i didn't know about. adding additional markers puts them out the
bottom of the browser and unreachable, which, of course, means i can't rename
them, since the scroll bar indicates it's at the end of the browser.

is this a bug? a known limitation?
how do you work around this if you've encountered it?

thanks,
BabaG
v6.0.5
mac pro
v10.5.7

Strange. I just tried it out, and I am able to add markers, and still scroll.

Workarounds- you could try creating subclips.



www.strypesinpost.com

thanks strypes.

update: i was able to close out and restart and everything came back
to normal. for what it's worth, this only happened after adding and
naming hundreds of markers.

BabaG

as i continue breaking down interviews by the use of markers,
i'm finding that this behaviour is continuing. i just finished
another hour long interview, adding somewhere around forty
markers. by the time i finished, the scroll bar would not scroll
to reveal media i know to be below my last added markers.
the browser indicates thatit is at the bottom of the window
but i know there are additional items below what the browser
is showing. a save-close-quit-reopen procedure corrected the
issue but this is getting very annoying.

has anyone else seen this?

just for info, the project has around 230 pieces of media so far,
mixed dv and hdv. many of these are hour long interviews,
each being broken down with up to around forty markers.

thanks,
BabaG

This is a long-standing, extremely annoying FCP display bug. The contents of the Browser should be intact; FCP just has trouble showing it. I've never found a consistent cause or solution for it.

You can try copying and pasting to a new project file, dump preferences and repair permissions, the usual suspects, but it hasn't happened enough to me for me to find a consistent solution.


www.derekmok.com

Yes, a long-irritating bug. I believe the "solution" is to double-click the bin you can't see all the markers in, which gives you a new window dedicated to that bin, and then the scroll limitation goes away. Or maybe it just sets the bar further out; it's hard to know where the limit might be until you reach it, but so far I've never had this solution fail me.

Scott

thanks derek and scott. will try these the next time i run into this,
which seems to be happening more frequently now.

BabaG

the solution i've used is to flip across to another browser tab, (the effects tab, say)
then back again.

i think it's all about "refreshing" the browser view.

option-double clicking on a bin opens it in it's own browser tab,
which should give you a bit more room,
as well as giving you another tab to flick to.

default keyboard shortcuts for toggling tabs:

Shift + Apple + [ and ]

my suggestion, for ease of use, is to remap to:

Shift + Apple + left arrow and right arrow.


i wonder if you are using two monitors?
having your browser in a second monitor gives you a heap more room to move.
doesn't have to be an expensive one, either.


nick

thanks for the tips nick. i actually have four monitors so display real estate
is not the issue. keyboard tips are appreciated, though.

thanks again,
BabaG