Late-Breaking Issues in Final Cut Pro HD

Editing

Previous and Next Keyframe Commands Follow Auto-Selected Tracks In the Timeline, navigating to the previous or next keyframe now follows the currently auto-selected tracks.

Capture and Output

"Disk Full" Error Message Final Cut Pro preallocates disk space just prior to capturing media. Final Cut Pro HD has a higher minimum disk space threshold to prevent some cases of the "Disk Full" error message.

For best performance, use a non-boot disk for capture, render, and final output to tape.

For most situations, it's best to select journaling for your system boot disk. For your scratch disk (which is ideally a non-boot disk), you may choose to select journaling or not depending on the level of media integrity you require. Of course, all of your media is critical to your project, but some media files are easier to recapture than others. For example, media captured from tape can always be captured again (assuming proper timecode exists on the tape and in the clip).

What Is Journaling? Journaling is a technique that helps protect the integrity of the Mac OS Extended file systems on Mac OS X volumes. It both prevents a disk from getting into an inconsistent state and expedites disk repair if the server fails.

When you enable journaling on a disk, a continuous record of changes to files on the disk is maintained in the journal. If your computer stops because of a power failure or some other issue, the journal is used to restore the disk to a known-good state when the server restarts.

For more information about journaling, see the AppleCare article at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107249.

Timecode

Batch Lists Always Export Clips Using Native Timecode Display Format All timecode columns in batch lists always export in their native timecode display format.

Note: This change restricts exporting batch lists with alternative time displays such as frame display mode.

EDL Timecode Support

The following sequence rates are supported for EDL export:

Note: Final Cut Pro always uses the source timecode of the sequence.

Timecode Fields in the Time Remap Parameter in the Motion Tab in the Viewer When adjusting time remap (speed) parameters in the Motion Tab in the Viewer, the following timecode fields have the following options:

• Duration: Always shows clip time mode (as opposed to source time and View Native Speed is always deselected.
• Source Duration: Always shows clip time mode (as opposed to source time) and View Native Speed is always selected.
• Time: Shows the timecode of the current sequence.
• Source Frame: Always shows time with View Native Speed selected.

Note: To experiment with the time remap timecode fields, try using a sequence clip instead of a Browser clip.

Tutorials

Documentation for the Final Cut Pro tutorials is available on the Final Cut Pro HD installer DVD, in /Extras/Final Cut Pro Tutorial.