One Sequence Per Project?

[Larry Asbell]

Reading some more and I see that the name of folder to move in and out of may be Final Cut Pro Projects, but we’ll get that cleared up in time.

There are plenty of reasons FCP media management needed improvement. For one: change the media folder location and everything became unlinked.

[Philip Van dyck]

I see it more as someone pushing me to do everything there way.
I can’t think of any project that I’ve done in the past that could work in the new system of editing. I need lots of sequences for many projects. I live in Belgium and everything we do here (corporate commercial,…) must be in different languages because of Frenh (south of Belgium) Dutch (north) and English and sometimes German.

I like FCP7 as it was/is, It just needed the speed bump we all had been waiting for and a few new features. It didn’t have to reinvent editing.

[David A fenton]

I come from a non-video editing background and while I finally figured out the FCP nomenclature/terminology it always seemed bizarre.

I think the “Projects” as they exist now in FCPX are much more intuitive to a person new to the software. Not sure I agree with “Events” though.

[Chris Harlan]

I agree. The more I look into this, the more I do not understand why the decisions behind this were made, other than to augment a consumer experience, and as an extension of the social media experience. I can see no other reason for this kind of architecture. It is a really great idea, following that thinking, if all my video revolves around me or my experience or a company’ experience. I see how media collects, congeals, interrelates and gets “brighter” as more connections and associations are made. It is the kind of thinking that makes iPhoto increasingly “smarter.” But, MY production needs don’t easily fit into or really require in any way this paradigm. I find all of this effort under the hood an intriguing exercise in complexity, but why? And why should I have to come to terms with a whole approach to video? I’m an interested sort of person. I like puzzles. So, if there is something here, I’d really like to find out. But I really cannot see any reason for all of the effort put into this shift, other than as relates to “social media associations.” I see why that would be great for iMovie. Why is it great for Final Cut Pro, other than logging potentially useful metadata? The contortions it has has to go through, conceptually, don’t seem worth the trouble to me. And, by the way, I really am asking. I’m not making a statement.

[Chris Harlan]

J., I’m actually in your camp with my feelings about this. A thing I want to mention to you though, is that this forum has currently been set aside specifically for technical and usage discussions since the main forum has turned into a furnace of anger. Despite my own feeling, which–as I say–are similar to yours, I’m trying to respect this area and engage in discussion. I don’t like the program, but I AM curious about the thinking behind it.

I certainly wouldn’t want to tell you what to do, but I thought I would let you know what the thinking is behind this impromptu forum.

[Chris Harlan]

That’s a piece of good news.

[Chris Harlan]

Thank you guys for having this conversation. I really enjoying it. The use of the event library really perplexes me. I really can’t get it out of my head that it is a social media organizational concept. It makes a great deal of sense at the center of something like iPhoto, which builds on experience. I don’t get why it is here, unless this program really HAS been designed as a consumer program from bottom up. I mean, if I’m building my life with home movies and iphone footage and photos from friends and songs I really like, and I’m making project along the way, the all-inclusive event library makes sense. If I’m working on Promos for three different clients next week, all from different networks, and my art documentary on the weekend–what does the event library get me? I understand that I can do some intense indexing to create very precise bin-like behavior, but, while this has some advantage, the overall added complexity does not seem even half worthwhile.

The approach only makes sense to me as a consumer experience tool that has been rewrapped as a professional tool. Any thoughts?

[Chris Harlan]

Exactly! That’s what I’m seeing.

[Chris Harlan]

Very interesting discussion. I have to say I’m glad you got it started. I’m still grumpy and not quite over the shock of FCS3’s retirement, but I do find the thinking behind this very interesting, and I’ve had a pleasant few hours reading through everyone’s posts.

[Stephan Walfridsson]

[Chris Harlan] “If I’m working on Promos for three different clients next week, all from different networks, and my art documentary on the weekend–what does the event library get me?”

I would actually think that your “Art documentary” and any other projects that have a slightly more nonlinear creation process could benefit from the Event based library and the expanded metadata handling.

So if they had just kept “Projects” as the top level organizational concept it would make a lot more sense.

Stephan