[MacDV] Re: FCP favorites

[sb]

It's a bug in FCP 4.5

You can't use the Make Favorite from the menu, you have to either drag it
(the altered transition) from the Viewer (using the hand) or from the
timeline into the Effects>Favorites folder.

As for saving favorites in case of re-install or upgrading, a good trick I
learned from Tom Wolsky:

Create a new empty project called Favorites. Drag the favorites folder from
the Effects Folder of the project with the modified and saved favorites into
the Browser of the new Favorites Project. Save it.

You can also apply favorites (effects and transitions) onto video in the
timeline. 

Keep this project. You can open it up anytime you create new Favorites and
add them. This way all your custom work will be readily at hand.

 HTH,

 sb

On 2/24/05 9:07 PM, "James Asherman" <jimash at optonline.net> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 24, 2005, at 10:19 PM, sb wrote:
> 
>> Or, just save a tweaked transition to use again and again?
>> 
>>  sb
>> 
> 
> Yeah that. I set the default to a 2 sec. dissolve easily.
> I confess I delayed my Panther upgrade because I like the look or X2.8
> better.
> But once I did it, of course I did the FCP 4.5 , and iLife '05.
> Did all that and associated online upgrades (including the 4.5)
> All easy.
> Most of my settings were importable in FCP. Some were already there.
> But certain things like the favorites just dissappeared.
> So I am doing a project and trying to rebuild my favorite transitions
> and filters.
> I set one up, highlight the viewer with the transition set, and choose
> "make favorite effect" from the menu.
> What I set does go into the favorites menu and when I check them in the
> bin they are there and load as effects.
> However, when I highlight a cut (even with the cursor there) And choose
> one of the favorites, nothing happens.
> If I choose a raw effect from the lists that will load into the
> timeline at the highlight.
> I looked around for some setting that I might have missed, But I can't
> find on that pertains to this.
> Thanks
> Jim
> 
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