FCP-X timeline

[David Roth weiss]

[Michael Gissing] “f Apple are listening, then take an old trick from audio DAWs and have small peak meters that align to each audio track. Left hand side is industry standard.”

I didn’t say they were listening now… In fact, I’ll bet their in hiding now.

Save your good ideas for June and beyond… They need us, and they know it.

David Roth Weiss
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[Craig Trevithick]

I think they’ve just renamed “nesting” and made it easier.

If certainly seems like they are dumbing it down. There isn’t a viewer anymore, I guess so the interface can fit all on one screen.
It looks more like imovie than Final Cut.
What happened to compressor, DVD Studio Pro, and Motion?

As a FCP editor since version 1.0, I’d like them to release FCP 8 and add the 64 bit interface. Leave imovie for the consumers.

[Mark Suszko]

I barely ever used the viewer for much anyway, myself.

[Craig Trevithick]

Did you ever keyframe anything? like a filer?

[Craig Trevithick]

Did you ever keyframe anything, like a filter or transition?
Whenever you doubleclick something in the timeline it opens in the viewer and lets you adjust it. How did you type out text?

[Tom Daigon]

Calm down everybody. According to informed sources elsewhere on the web …there is a viewer. you can mark in and out, you can 3 point edit and you can turn off any new option you dont like. And if you turn most of them off you have something that looks a lot like FCP 7 so quit PMSing 😉

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Eric Wescott]

I’m more concerned about the ability to assign clips to tracks that can be muted, mixed, and solo’d. I don’t see any way around this being an absolute requirement for serious editing.

It looks like it will all be based on “tags”. You will be able to assign tags (some tagging appears automatic) to audio clips. Then if you want to mute, mix, solo you do it by selecting tags.

I was a little concerned about being able to keep music, dialogue and additional audio organized visually but it looks like the time line attempts to keep similar tagged items grouped on horizontal lines..