A glimpse of the future?

[David Eaks]

OOOH, that looks FUN! FCPX is pretty much “good enough” for my work purposes but I’m still mainly using FCS3.

If Apple really is heading in this direction with FCPX and it gets fleshed out nice and solid (they seem to be doing OK with touch screens so far), I could definitely see such a setup in my edit room. My clients (who know NOTHING of NLE’s) would think it’s cool and impressive as well, always a plus.

[Alan Lacey]

Looks like a lot more work flying arms around than a simple A5 wacom

Alan

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[Steve Connor]

[Alan Lacey] “Looks like a lot more work flying arms around than a simple A5 wacom”

Might keep us a bit fitter though!

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[Eugeny Korkhin]

The future seems to have lost the skimmer.

[David Cherniack]

The Mother of Invention can be quite a ditsy bitch.

David
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[Tony West]

I don’t see the benefit, unless you don’t want to jog around the track and you want to get your workout this way : )

It takes the skimmer out of the mix so that’s a deal breaker for me right off.

Touch screens have their place.

I was in a hotel lobby the other day and they had a huge one on the wall and you could find pizza around the corner or weather. Very cool, but you only use it for a couple of minutes.

You would see editors falling over from heart attacks. The edit session is too long for all that.

I can see tagging footage on an airplane with an ipad but transferring to my computer when I wanted to work.

I think part of the reason X is slimmed downed in that timeline is to make it touch screen ready.

[David Eaks]

I don’t think the touch interface is going to break our mouse/tablet (good god, I hope not). It would just be another method of manipulation at our disposal. Have some fun with the touch interface for assembly/organization then pick up the mouse/pen for the real, detailed work.

[tony west] “I don’t see the benefit, unless you don’t want to jog around the track and you want to get your workout this way : )”

With this “trackless paradigm” you don’t have a choice! J/K

For me, a good portion of my edits are intensely simple. Title, couple cross dissolves, fade to black, and burn or upload. I think it would be fun for that stuff, real complex projects maybe not so much.

[Alan Lacey] “Looks like a lot more work flying arms around than a simple A5 wacom”

Maybe the screen becomes the tablet?

[Mark Dobson]

I saw an earlier version of this somewhere.

Keeping an iPad screen clean is one thing but imagine how grubby a 27″ monitor would get.

Not for me – looks a really clumsy way of achieving a precision job.

I’d much rather edit with a ‘Minority Report’ type virtual screen and really throw things together including the past, the future and the present.

[Shane Ross]

This might be fine if ALL you do is editing via mouse. I do so much with keyboard shortcuts, including precision editing via arrow keys and option-arrow keys, that this would be very unpractical.

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[Chris Harlan]

Maybe. The thing is, after two years with an iPad, I’m not quite as enamored with the whole touch screen thing as I once was. Actually, its really made be value both tactile keys and the nifty Apple trackpads–and, for that matter, a good precision mouse. My gut tells me that touch screen pads are not the future I once saw them to be, though I still see them having an important place, primarily for media consumption and game playing. Of course, it could just be me.