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Browser feature request
How hard would it be to make the icon view in the browser more like a clip viewer? similar to the way you can view QT Thumbnails in the OSX finder column view? Or the way avid does it where you can set poster frames, JKL control and even be able to set ins and outs without having to go to the viewer to do that? If a picture is worth a thousand words, then moving video is worth 30 thousand words per second!
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You have to click on the clip to mess with the image in a browser view, and you have to double click on the image to do those things in the viewer.
It doesn’t seem like much of a difference.
Did you know you can scrub the clips in the browser, using the scrub tool (shortcut hh)? Maybe that will help some.
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Right click in a blank space in the Browser, select Icon View, either large medium or small. You can set the Poster Frame as you want. You can set In/Out points manually in the Browser by typing them into the respective fields to the right of each clip.
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yeah, I know all that. But the point is it would be nice to be able to actually play the clips in the browser instead of having to load them in the viewer. An example of where this would come in handy is let’s say…
when you have a 50 different talking heads that all look the same and you can’t remember which one a certain sound bite came from and you need to find it quick. If you could just tab down to the next one and play a few seconds of each clip you could find it faster, rather than having to load each freakin one in the viewer before you can play it. As far as scrubbing in the browser, I can’t seem to get audio to scrub or play.
And YES I do have audio scrubbing activated in the view menu.I just thought it would be pretty cool if each Icon was a QT Thumbnail Player similar to what is available in the OSX Column view of the finder.
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OK Maybe I’m crazy but….
what if the browser looked more like a mini version of the iTunes movie browser… with cover flow/list combo view with Audio and Video scrubable thumbnails.
You can’t tell me that wouldn’t be cool and useful
They already have everything layed out, why not use it in FCP?
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Cover flow. Interesting idea. Though I bet most editors (especially the Avid converts) would say – too flashy – takes to long to “flip” thru your clips.
Maybe good for iMovie?
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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