Bonus Tip – Less rounded corners in the timeline To save that time, be careful as you make changes. As a last resort you can delete your copy of Final Cut and go to the Mac App Store and reinstall a fresh copy if needed. Make original copies of any elements you change in case things go wrong. Please remember MODIFYING THE INTERNALS OF FINAL CUT PRO X CAN DAMAGE IT – be careful with the changes you make. When you next open Final Cut Pro, you’ll find that you can drag markers along clips and also drag them off clips as shown in the video above. You are likely to get an alert stating that ‘Modifying “Resources” requires an administrator name and password.’ – Authenticate using your password. Save the file to keep the change to ‘ist’ and quit Xcode.ĭrag the modified ‘ist’ into Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/amework/Versions/A/Resources In Xcode, expand the ‘TLKMarkerHandler’ section by clicking its grey disclosure triangle.Ĭhange the ‘NO’ to ‘YES’ by clicking the pop-up control to the right of the ‘NO’ From the context pop up menu, choose ‘Xcode’ (I need to do this on my Mac because I have multiple applications that can modify. Open ‘ist’ by control-clicking (or right-clicking) its icon. This unmodified version will help you restore Final Cut if needed. Navigate to Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/amework/Versions/A/Resourcesĭrag a copy of ‘ist’ out of Final Cut to another folder or the desktop.ĭuplicate ‘ist’ in the Finder using the Duplicate command in the File menu (or option-drag it to a different folder). In the Applications folder, control-click (or right-click) the Final Cut Pro icon and choose ‘Show Package Contents’ from the context pop up menu. An example is ‘Pref Setter’ from Night Productions. plist documents or ‘Property List’ files. If you don’t want to use over 2GB of storage, search the internet for applications that can edit. It is available for free from the Mac App Store. If you have enough disk space, install Apple’s development suite – Xcode. How to turn on Final Cut’s Movable Markers feature The preference is hidden in a property list document hidden within the application – that means to enable it, you will need to use another application to directly modify your copy of Final Cut Pro X. I made the modification in February on my main Mac with no problems, but I can’t guarantee all will be well on your system. Maybe they want to make the feature better before making it public (selecting multiple markers, making markers draggable to other clips). Note that there might be a good reason why Apple didn’t enable this feature – perhaps beta testers suffered mysterious crashes due to an odd clash of code when the feature is enabled. It is possible to modify an installed copy of Final Cut to turn this feature on. One feature implemented but not enabled in version 10.1 and 10.1.1 is the ability to move markers along a clip: As I’ve written before, there are many elements hidden within Final Cut that give hints about possible future directions the application might take.
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