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I can forgive apple if…
Having looked at a few early demo videos on you tube and read this forum fairly intensely I think I will be able to forgive apple as long as they quickly add the missing pro features that make the current version useless without.
In any case I may not have have a choice if all the post houses I work at decide to upgrade to it, but on the flip side if they all go back to avid then my life gets much simpler.
Anyway the reason that I am posting and my real gripe is that timeline!!!
Somebody who has used it please please tell me you can disable magnetic editing and adjust the size of the ‘tracks’ so that they are not 10 foot tall (indeed can we have tracks???) and my big big question… can we disable the filmstrip view of the video tracks??? I can’t stand it, not in avid not in FCP7 and not here, it makes the timeline so confusing.
These may not seem like major issues in the grand scheme of things but to me they are essential.
Hope you can help
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You can adjust the size and look of the tracks, but you can’t use them in the traditional sense (ie there aren’t any, just media stuck to a central timeline).
You can’t disable magnetic editing and I can’t see Apple changing any of this functionality.
If you want to be safe, take some time to look at Premiere because all the pros are going over to that and Avid.
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Why would you post a screenshot showing that it is possible without accompanying instructions as to how to make that happen?
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Great, thanks, what are those little grey arrows pointing at each other sitting on your cuts?
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Hey Gary – give me a break. The manual is freely available. And if you need to reference the manual to figure out how to do this … good luck.
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If you feel that way, then you shouldn’t have replied in the first place.
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Francis – the “arrows” are Transitions.
-paul.
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Great, thanks Paul.
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“Somebody who has used it please please tell me you can disable magnetic editing”
Use the position tool, or learn to edit with a magnetic timeline. It can’t be switched off. Everything has to be connected to a continuous primary storyline.
“and adjust the size of the ‘tracks’ so that they are not 10 foot tall”
Switch in the lower right of the timeline window lets you set the clip height.
“can we disable the filmstrip view of the video tracks??”
Same place as clip height you can adjust different ways of displaying in the timeline from only waveforms to clip lozenges.
All the best,
Tom
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[Francis Robertson] “Great, thanks, what are those little grey arrows pointing at each other sitting on your cuts?”
Transitions.
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