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Just so we’re clear…
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[Jules bowman] “Was there any reason why an event couldn’t have remained being called a project and a timeline a timeline or a sequence a sequence? Did someone have copyright over those terms and were charge apple to use them thus reducing their profit margin?”
Probably not, but too many people seem to be hung up on the name change, they could have called projects “cuddly kittens” and timelines “Prancing Horses” as far as I’m concerned – I know what they mean!
Steve Connor
“Sometimes it’s fun to poke an angry bear with a stickl”
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[Steve Connor] “Probably not, but too many people seem to be hung up on the name change, they could have called projects “cuddly kittens” and timelines “Prancing Horses” as far as I’m concerned – I know what they mean!
“Oh, the client conversations you would have!
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I don’t know – all this changing terminology is getting kind of AVID-esque. A-mode, Attic Folder, double-strand editing – they all come back to me. I’m getting scared! What’s next – meaningless icons where you have to take a course because they’re not intuitive? Yikes!
Joe Bourke
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Isn’t that always what’s next?
Tim
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “What’s next – meaningless icons where you have to take a course because they’re not intuitive?”
That reminds me of the other day. I don’t know when they changed it, but the Avid icon for the shortcut “lift” used to be a bodybuilder hefting a barbell. I was telling my students about that yesterday, thinking that the icon hadn’t changed. Now I’m a little sad that it has because that was damn funny.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Because an EVENT doesn’t resemble a Project in any way. Events are essentially bins. Bins that live outside a Project. I don’t know about you, but I always considered my Project to be all about a finished video. The Project. Bins were just an organizational tool for the source media that lived within the project.
So look at it this way. Projects are still projects. Bins don’t live inside projects anymore, so bins needed to be grouped together in SOME way, so that concept had to be given a name. Event seemed like a decent choice. Would bin groups have been better? Maybe. But since other Apps in the Apple world calls groups of media Events, I think Apple decided that was a good choice.
Having bins exist in only the project was pretty silly in FCP legacy. Avid doesn’t do that and for good reason. If you want to access bins from another project, you simply navigate to that project folder, and open the bin, which exists in the project folder, but outside the project. In your project it lets you know that it’s a bin not associated with the project with a color highlight or something. I foget.
I’d say FCP Xs spin on it is a bit more modern and makes the media even more accessible. Too accessible perhaps. Some sort of built in event manager would be helpful. But it’s easily enough done at the finder level. In legacy I was constantly managing aspects of FCP at the finder level. No big difference.
It’s funny how for 12 years myself and other have been bitching about how the Media mgmt in FCP 1-7 sucked and now that they’ve changed it to actually start making sense everyone complains because we’ve gotten so used to the moronic way it used to work.
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It went away with the new logo.
Tim
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So you know we’re all screwed when the terminology and iconography of software gets given over to the design and marketing departments. Ho boy!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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