Hypothetical

[Scott Witthaus]

[Mark Raudonis] “I’d argue that FCP-X is a tricycle.”

This is just hilarious. I guess Henry Ford could have put mechanical hooves on his first cars, because back then they just wanted a faster horse.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Oliver Peters]

[Scott Witthaus] “Can’t you simply just cut them back to back and keep all b-roll at one level (connected clip level or a second “track” if you will)? Why have footage “underneath” other b-roll shots?”

Not if you leave the out points long with the initial edit. You would have to be in a secondary storyline to avoid this. The trouble with also doing a video-only edit to the primary storyline (with the intent to leave audio) is that often it wipe out an a/v clip with a v-only clip. In addition, when you do an overwrite edit to the last point of the storyline, is that you cannot make an edit longer than the in-out on the primary storyline. You have to append and then trim back.

With a secondary storyline, everything is pinned to one point at the beginning of the secondary. This defeats the benefits of connected clips, because you are trying to create “fake” tracks. In that case, I feel like moving b-roll clips around in the secondary is even harder than with tracks. MUCH harder, in fact.

With a stack of vertically cascading connected clips, the footage that’s “underneath”, is merely the excess that was not cut off by the next edit.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com