Magnetic Timeline Intervention

[Bob Woodhead]

Well, yeah. But his friend insists on spitting into the wind, tugging on Superman’s cape, etc.

[Tom Brooks]

Great ideas, Bob. All of ’em.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “Using the gap clip in the primary seemed like a popular idea right after the release of X until people got more comfortable with how the app worked.”

Like many, I did that as well when i first started cutting in X. Now? It’s like a freeform pallete. 🙂 Though the UI is still maddening at times. Like, cursing at it maddening. But still, I’m now used to using the primary, secondaries, quick comps to defeat magnetism if I’m rearranging “pods”, popping in and out of the primary depending on what I need to happen, sticking connected audio above the primary if it’s getting “lost” in the timeline. I cut with *lot’s* of audio so it’s difficult to fit it all on a 27″ monitor in anything other than labels only height. Not saying it’s perfect or all inclusive, but It really is like having the best parts of all NLE’s. I’m still figuring out and/or finding new ways to do stuff.

I sometimes miss tracks when I’m in X. But I can’t stand that I’m locked into them when I’m cutting in something else. 10.1.1 still has some annoying issues, but for me, the magnetic timeline isn’t one of them.

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[Bret Williams]

You talk about audio above the primary, but what about video below it? When I first did that it was quite the awakening of sorts. Being able to slide the primary image to the side, to reveal a background layer without having to move the primary up a layer or slice offa piece and move it up a layer, etc etc made me realize that X wasn’t this limiting thing but somewhat liberating in many ways. Putting video under the primary is like having a -V1 track.

Speaking of not having screen real estate, Premiere hasa great toggle where no matter what window you’re in, you press a key (tilde?) and that window fills the screen. Press it again to go back. Great for hiding the source/viewer and making the sequence fill the screen. Especially if you’re monitoring via BMD or other device anyway.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “made me realize that X wasn’t this limiting thing but somewhat liberating in many ways.”

One word…Clip Skimming. Well, OK, it’s two words, but I must say, that feature alone is worth putting up with X’s quirks. 🙂

[Bret Williams] “Speaking of not having screen real estate, Premiere hasa great toggle where no matter what window you’re in, you press a key (tilde?) and that window fills the screen. Press it again to go back. Great for hiding the source/viewer and making the sequence fill the screen. Especially if you’re monitoring via BMD or other device anyway.”

Yeah, i like that, though I generally monitor onscreen so I don’t use it too much in Pr. There’s some good stuff in Pr. It’s just way too “fiddly” for my taste. Yes, you can have all sorts of layouts for all your different windows. There’s just too many damn windows/tabs/whatever. X could stand a couple more maybe. Or at least the ability to remember my arrangement when I put the viewers on my second screen and then back to the main screen… :-/

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~