site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com ky On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Rainer Standke wrote: Rainer On Feb 9, 2009, at 15:02 , Helena Ju wrote: If the file in the viewer changes, we have to close the viewer. Regards, Helena On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Nelson Shawn wrote: Thanks -Shawn _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... To echo what Helena mentioned, FCP closes the viewer item when reconnecting ( because that is what is going on... updating the clip to match the new file ) because the clip in the viewer may be going through dramatic changes. It could be argued that the viewer should be smarter to handle the change dynamically or that FCP should reopen the viewer after some delay. This behavior has not changed since 1.0 as far as I am aware when reconnect was a much more static operation. I am not familiar with FCP Apple Events, but the key would be to know edit which is being viewed ( kFCPOpenItemInProject may be what Rainer was suggesting). Knowing only the file is not sufficient because of course a file can be used in many project in many different places. Even a standard file that is edited only once exists in both the browser and sequence. Isn't there an Apple event that loads an item? You could call that after your update. Might have to introduce a little delay to allow for FCP closing it first. I have a QT file located on a network drive that gets updated (it’s a growing file). I can either change focus outside of FCP or send the Apple Event kFCPMediaFileKey and FCP will successfully re- load the now bigger file (it has the same name). But the big problem is that I lose the file from the Viewer window! The process of reloading the same file happens instantaneously and kicks me out of it. Is there a trick to get FCP to not freak out and boot the file from the Viewer? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com