My suggestions for improved Audio Post support …

[Marcus Moore]

First off, “place” doesn’t matter, since there’s no tracks. In your situation I’d just select the element I need to change the Role for and change it’s role. It doesn’t need to move, I don’t need to find room for it amongst the other dialogue tracks, and I don’t have to create a new track and bump everything else down to make room if there’s no more space there.

Let me put it this way- my experience in editing on X after 3 years, and after editing in FCP Legacy since 2002, is that any time I may loose in having to make those occasional Roles adjustments, is WAY outpaced by all the times I don’t have to worry what I’m doing with my edit, and what effect that has on the audio components below.

It’s not a perfect system yet. I would love to see Roles dictate a visual order, grouping Roles together- but never forcing me to worry about individual audio clip conflicts.

On your other point, there’s no trick to dissolves on connected clips. Select the end you want to dissolve and hit “t”, and it adds a dissolve. This puts it into a container called a storyline- but that doesn’t represent any extra effort on the editors part.