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Key Grip dust left in Final Cut Pro?

By S Simmons. Filed in Editing  |  
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While thumbing around and doing to much needed housekeeping today in my favorite Finder replacement tool Pathfinder, I noticed what might be a little evidence left behind for the days of old when Final Cut Pro was owned by Macromedia and called Key Grip. This is long before it was ever released.

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It looks like every type of file created by FCP (projects, Quicktimes, render files, cache files) gets labeled as KeyG as it’s “creator.” I’m no coder so then again maybe it means something totally different.

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3 comments to “Key Grip dust left in Final Cut Pro?”

  1. Comment by Philip Hodgetts:
    Monday, December 4th 2006 at 10:51 pm

    You are correct. An application’s creator code is set very early in the process and it’s quite difficult to change it later. So KeyGrip will ever have it’s tentacles on Final Cut Pro: you can change the name but the creator code is a constant.

    Cheers

    Philip

  2. Comment by Lewis:
    Tuesday, December 5th 2006 at 3:04 am

    Yup – in older versions the Type code also started with KG, like KGPF for Key Grip Project File and so on. And if you take a sample of the FCP process with Activity Monitor, or attach a debugger to it or whatever, you’ll see that all the functions names begin with KG, KGMainEvent and suchlike.

  3. Comment by editblog:
    Tuesday, December 5th 2006 at 11:41 am

    That’s great to know. Coding an application as complicated as Final Cut Pro can’t be an easy task. I respect these people greatly!