Is there a way to make range stick?

[Bill Davis]

I’m going to make this as a general suggestion, NOT as a specific comment to address the workflow being discussed.

But really, on a project where you’re not on deadline and you have some time for pure learning. Try doing ALL your visual scene focus work in the Event Browser rather than ANY of it in the timeline. Learn how to apply Reject, Favorite and develop a personal strategy for keywords that sort, ID, bucket, and collect scenes into various groupings and sets of your own design. It forces you to think about the power of the relational database and how it work both with, and more importantly “ahead of” the timeline – to make editing much easier.

If you’re thinking exclusively of being IN the timeline when you do your organization – it’s kinda downstream of true design of the workflow in X.

I know it’s not particularly natural since prior to X, all serious editing work happened in a timeline – but if you can wrap your head around the power of working INSIDE the database for as much of your selection and trimming work as possible – rather than exclusively on the timeline – you’ll truly thank yourself later.

FWIW.

FWIW.

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