Making speed changes without shifting all following clips

[David Bogie]

[Tom Wolsky] “I’m curious what other NLE’s do. If you slmo a clip, what do they do, truncate the clip to its current duration? If you speed up a clip, extend the clip’s marked I/O to fill the sapce? What if there isn’t enough media? Leaves a hole in the timeline?
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Ye Olde Media 100 was supremely forgiving in many of the situations in which FCP assumes the editor is an idiot. Anything the user told the NLE to do, M100 would do it and calmly indicate where media was missing. M100 presumed nothing except you nknew what you were doing and knew what you wanted. If the operation couldn’t be executed completely, M100 did what it could and served up the obvious shortcomings of your decisions.

Applying timing changes to a clip is just one example. Changing transition lengths, removing gaps, or replacing media are others. Place a 5 second dissolve on a clip that only has only 2 seconds of handles? M100 did it but indicated the missing media with a crosshatch.

I have a long list of silly things in FCP that insult me to the core. They are intrusive, disruptive, presumptive, and they say really awful things about how little FCP’s designers respect our skills. There should be a Child-Watch Switch in FCP that allows the mature editor who is comfortable with tanking risks to turn this babysitting junk on or off.

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