Michael Cioni of Lightiron talking about Metadata, Hollywood, FCP X, and Premier.

[Bill Davis]

I understand Andrew,

But the key for me is that Keyword collections in X are fluid and additive. So tagging, un-tagging, re-tagging and “multi-tagging” (which is a nice shorthand for the way X lets the same range/partial range exist in as many keyword collections as you like) is not a thing you do, so much as a state you live in as an X editor.

For me, the Menu Bar tags (Favorite, Reject, Untrated) are just convenient initial buckets. Yes, I *might* use them as finals. But most often I don’t. I use them as separators to gather classes, before I proceed to move the targeted ranges of those clips out of those “gross buckets” and into their eventual “home” keyword bins.

That way, you get to use the blue line in X, (actually the lack thereof) to tell you when you have a clip that hasn’t been dealt with. NOT just it’s UNRATED status.

One system, nearly infinite flexibility!

And it’s flexibility that each individual editor gets to use deploy in their own special way.

That’s part of the true brilliance of the X design.

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[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “So Oliver, respectfully, I don’t think this is about the tool – it’s abut how the user conditions themself to use it. Not re-visiting Rejects is a user choice. NOT a software feature”

I completely get that. I’m not saying the design is wrong in how it work. Rather that the design makes it easier for the editor to engage in bad habits as a by-product of the ease.

– Oliver

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “I completely get that. I’m not saying the design is wrong in how it work. Rather that the design makes it easier for the editor to engage in bad habits as a by-product of the ease.
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You could say that about FCP7 too.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Jeremy Garchow] “You could say that about FCP7 too.”

You could say that about ANY NLE for that matter, yes.

Want “ratings”? Set “*” all the way up to “*****” on your CTRL-1 to 5 keys. Done. That’s what it’s there for. Need it ALL the time? ⌥-drag the keywords to any and every event you need them in. Done.

If you know how X was conceived to be used, no one should need to be taken by the hand for that kind of thing. And every exotic, personal niggle most certainly doesn’t need to be a pre-manufactured feature.

– RK

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