Apple and databases

[Marcus Moore]

Yup. Just another one of the MANY times I’ve suggested nesting so solve all timeline ills…*

*If you’re looking for a non-snarky answer, see my answer below to someone who’s interested in carrying on a decent conversation.

[Marcus Moore]

[David Lawrence] “Sure, but as you know, this prevents you from being able to do any mixing in context of the overall program. Stepping in and out of CCs is a bag of hurt.”

Exactly. And I’ve often wondered about the an option to play an compound clip “in context” of it’s parent timeline. Not as an overall solution to the mixing problem, but just generally as a feature.

[David Lawrence] “Yes, something like that would be great. I just don’t see a clean way to do it without making the window the time frame-of-reference.”

I agree. It would seem to be “mixing metaphors”. The thing is, for most purposes, I find connected clips to be unbelievably more intuitive than what I was doing in 7 (but not for visual organization at present). Of course, there are always exceptions- but I rate those on the scale of the whole. Overall I think the magnetic timeline structure is allowing me to work faster across a whole edit, weighing the pluses to minuses. Audio organization and Mixing is undeniably FCPX’s weak point.

[David Lawrence]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “I’ve been very hesitant to dive in on anything large (quite aside from the relinking issue). Any details worth sharing?”

Franz,

It’s nothing you don’t already know, I was just surprised at easily it reared its ugly head.

My Premiere project management workflow is straightforward. Instead of opening separate tabbed projects like in FCP7, I create a master project and import any source projects I may need. I set up the imported project bins as tabs in a Pr window. It works well enough and in some ways is even an improvement over FCP7’s tabs (the Pr tilde key is pure win). So far so good.

So here ‘s what happened – I was copying clips from a source sequence into my new project sequence. Out of habit, I often cut clips from the source so I only have unused clips remaining. As I’m working I decided I want a clip that I deleted a while ago. In FCP7, I could go back and revert the source project. In PrP, I have to reimport the entire thing. And now I can’t delete the reimported project once I get my clip back because the clip is linked to the newly reimported project.

There are many ways I could have avoided this scenario, but when working fast, it’s really easy for things like this to happen. Like everyone says, PrP project management has a major case of the stupids. Hope it gets better in a couple weeks.

–dhl

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