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How Apple Has Changed the Paradigm of Editing
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[Chris Kenny] ” While it sort of looks like it does at first glance, FCP X doesn’t have conventional tracks (stacked linear containers for clips that run the full length of the sequence) besides the primary storyline. This is a pretty significant difference.”
To me it looks like it has tracks in the exact same way FCP7 and most other NLEs do. The only fundamental difference seems to be that you have much less control over them. The programs decides where to put things for you. If the paradigm shift is towards less control then I’d personally much rather stay with the “old” one…
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[Michael Pierro] “To me it looks like it has tracks in the exact same way FCP7 and most other NLEs do. The only fundamental difference seems to be that you have much less control over them. The programs decides where to put things for you. If the paradigm shift is towards less control then I’d personally much rather stay with the “old” one…”
Clips on a track have an absolute position relative to the sequence as a whole. Clips and storylines above the primary storyline in FCP X have a position only relative to the primary storyline clips to which they are connected. There is, as far as I’ve discovered, no way to just put a free-floating disconnected clip above the primary storyline. Even if there’s a gap in the primary storyline below the start of a clip, it will just attach itself to the gap (since gaps are sort of slug clips in FCP X).
This is fundamentally different from standard-mulitrack editing.
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[MIke Guidotti] “Apple itself is saying it has changed the paradigm of editing. I am not sure I understand what they have done that is so revolutionary.”
The paradigm shift Apple have created is getting suckers to pay $300 for the privilege of beta testing the trial balloon they’re calling FCP X.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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I was going to reply exactly as you have but I figured since I used the flatbed in my initial post , I would just be repeating myself.
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