Trimming with the Selection Tool

Will Clegg

Will Clegg

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Ok, I have a weird one here... In 8 years of FCP, I have never seen this happen.

I want to trim a clip that is already in the timeline. Usually, when the selection tool is active i just move it to the edge of of the clip and it cursor changes to the trim tool. Then I can click and drag to trim or extend the clip, right? I do this every day, many many times a day.

Except now, it doesn't change into the trim tool. This is a free-standing clip, not trying to overwrite any adjacent clips (there are none), and there is plenty of footage on either side in the master clip. I assume that I inadvertently turned off an option that allows me to do this, but I have no idea how to turn it back on if that is the case.

Please someone, help (or make me feel stupid by pointing out the obvious solution - that works too. I'm on a deadline here and this is slowing me down so much that it's worth posting).

EDIT: I'm using 6.0.4
 
happens to me sometimes too. i always end up fixing it but i dont know how. i think i go focus on some other clips and when i come back to it and it magically works again.

hopefully somebody knows what causes this?
 
Alison, are you on 6.0.4? I'm starting to think that I should just roll back to 6.0.3 as it seemed to work better all around.
 
So the cursor just stays an arrow then? Try unlinking the audio just to see if it's related to something like that.
 
Yeah, exactly. I tried a few things and then trashed preferences, which fixed it. Had to keep moving - but if anyone else notices this happening, maybe we can pin down the cause.
 
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