Could Adobe (or someone else) adopt magnetic timeline features in a tracked timeline?

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “The big downside with multiple primaries is that you constantly have to manage multiple time functions, meaning if I move stuff in primary 1, primary 2 isn’t coming along for the ride. “

That’s the whole point. If you want stuff to move with primary1, put it in primary1. You don’t need to use primary2. Only use primary2 is for the stuff you don’t want to move with primary1. I don’t see the difficulty.

I manage multiple time functions every time I work. It’s called “editing”. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “That’s the whole point. If you want stuff to move with primary1, put it in primary1. You don’t need to use primary2. Only use primary2 is for the stuff you don’t want to move with primary1. I don’t see the difficulty.”

The difficulty is “primary 1, primary 2”. The idea of being able to pin to sequence time would solve this without adding any random secondary primaries or whatever you’d call them right? Of course, a secondary pinned to FFOP does this now anyway, but I guess that’s not “tracky” enough.

[David Lawrence] “I manage multiple time functions every time I work. It’s called “editing”. 😉
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Wow, me too! I never knew that’s what it was called… 😉

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Lawrence] “I manage multiple time functions every time I work. It’s called “editing”. 😉
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Right. Something us plebs can’t even comprehend.

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Right. Something us plebs can’t even comprehend.”

It was a joke, Jeremy. No offense intended. 😉

I think this debate is good and I’m truly interested in your and Charlie’s point of view. Apologies if my remark came off wrong.

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “I think this debate is good and I’m truly interested in your and Charlie’s point of view. Apologies if my remark came off wrong.”

No problem here. Jerk! <—- kidding! 🙂 I really think this all comes down to differences in opinion. You think using a secondary to lock a clip to sequence time is a workaround. I don’t think it is at all, it’s how it works. I mean, I could make a similar argument about fixed tracks. I think having to drag or use the KB to move clips around to keep them from colliding is a workaround. You likely think that it’s not, it’s just how it works right? (We could go back and forth like this for hours… lol)

But I’m pretty sure if you ask anyone who uses X for real, and — at the risk of sounding condescending, by that I mean every day, all day, with multiple gigs and deadlines and clients over your shoulder etc, — they would have a laundry list of things that could be better. But I’d bet that most of them wouldn’t say they have a problem with getting a clip to stick to a fixed point in a project.

I also think they’d all say “sure, that would be nice” to possible features like being able to pin to sequence time, or have expandable-in-project comps so you could “connect” connected clip/secondaries to each other and keep them editable etc. But as Jeremy points out, there are many other things on which they’d think Apple should be spending their time.

You want the timeline “fixed” because you don’t like the way it works or it doesn’t suit your workflow. We want it to be better because we do like the way it works. Or something like that.

And having said all that… I’m enjoying this topic, some cool ideas popping up. Maybe Apple is lurking….

EDIT: Just thought of this… How about everything stays the same, but you could right click a clip or clips and choose “disconnect” or something. Like the tilde key function, but for individual clips, not all or none like it is now. I’m gonna submit that one….

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[Alex Gollner]

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