FYI iTunes/FCP bug
FYI iTunes/FCP bug
- Subject: FYI iTunes/FCP bug
- From: Martin Baker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:44:14 +0100
I've just filed a report on this and while I guess there probably
aren't too many other developers using iTunes and FCP together it
might be useful to have on record.
For a while, we've had an issue with our Loader product where dragging
a track from iTunes onto Loader results in FCP misbehaving during
playback. The playhead doesn't move and the timecode display and audio
meters don't update. This only happens from iTunes - dragging a file
from the Finder onto Loader is perfectly fine. Interestingly, dragging
a source clip from Browser to Viewer always seems to reset FCP and
cures the issue. Double-clicking a source clip to load it into the
Viewer does not reset FCP in the same way and the issue remains.
So after much head scratching and going around in circles, in
desperation I just wondered what would happen if I moved the Loader
window to my right monitor. Success. This time dragging a track from
iTunes didn't cause these playback issues. What's different? I don't
have FCP windows on my right monitor...
So it turns out that dragging an track from iTunes anywhere over the
FCP UI causes this issue and by its design, Loader is designed to sit
over the Browser window. So every single time users were dragging from
iTunes to Loader, they were crossing the FCP UI and firing the
problem. Cue huge forehead slap!
Martin Baker
www.digital-heaven.co.uk
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