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Prayers from the Church of X
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[David Powell] “I use it everyday. I didn’t say that users were amateurs.”
Understood, sorry for the knee jerk sarcasm. 🙂
[David Powell] “The IU is less customizable. That’s a fact. It takes away power from the experienced user and learning curve from new users imo.”
Agree about the UI, and I hope it regains some customization, at the least the ability to save window layouts…
[David Powell] “I’ve worked on trailers before in X (not on your level) and didn’t need the features I mentioned much. And for corporate vids I don’t need them either. But for other cuts, being confined to one bin at a time and one timeline really stinks, as does the lack of trim features which would not fly in the way of the design should they be implemented.”
Bah, I’m just a hack. 🙂 I have a lot of respect for folks who cut long form… not sure I have the attention span required. 🙂 And I do see your point. I guess I just feel like it’s more of an evolution happening (slowly) than a “let’s take away things we feel people don’t need” decision. I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first time…
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[David Powell] “But for other cuts, being confined to one bin at a time “
Why not select multiple collections, or throw your collections in to a folder and select the folder? I do this all the time.
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What about Bruce? I greatly miss his presence.
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That would be basically the same as having the clips all in the same bin. It’s a matter of visual organization for me to have them separated. I miss there being several ways to skin a cat. That’s what I meant about restriction in the UI. The “messier” NLE’s allow the user to make a setup that fits his style. And over the years both Avid and PP work spaces have become more customisable not less. I have to assume this comes from user requests.
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They could borrow all the functionality from Motion. I wish Motion would allow you to open a “group” in its own timeline. And by the same means, it’d e great if AE could open a precomp like a group in the same timeline.
How is it Avid is still the only one doing it both ways and has been since, always? At least 1997 when I first used it.
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A lot of things here I’d like, though honestly, my own wants are fairly slight. Or at least, I can’t recall so many this early in the am. That said, here’s my non-exhaustive list:
TIERED MATCHFRAME LIKE AVID: Many people would like a better matchframe, but I specifically want one that works like Avid’s, only better. Matchframe a clip in timeline takes you to the keyword range of the clip in the browser, matchframe again from the browser, and it takes you to the master clip. Matchframe a multiclip in timeline, it opens the angle editor and matches to that frame and assigns that track as the monitoring track. Matchframe again and it takes you to the browser and the master clip. Same with compound clips or synchronized clips. Basically, you can keep matchframing until you’ve found the most basic element of your video.
MORE SHORTCUTS: We need more shortcuts and for more things. Charlie mentioned one for selecting clips vertically which would be great. Also, I’d like one for increasing the size of the timeline clips. I don’t mean changing between audio only view to the tetris view, I mean adjusting the clip size in the individual views. Not all of us are cutting on 30″ monitors and I hate using that slider. I hate using all sliders because they’re so imprecise.
PROJECT SCRUBBING/EDITING: We used to have this and it was took it away. I think it would be nice to be able to scrub a project like a clip and even mark IN/OUTs and edit that project into another project that way. As a corollary to that, Having tabs in the project pane similar to FCP7 where you can have more than one project open at a time and copy paste that way.
RANGE RENAMING: I’d love to have the ability to creating keyword ranges and then renaming the clip in the collection without it changing the master clip name. This could be as simple as having a new meta-data column for range names that’s the default view inside collections. But then all the people who use subclips in other NLEs to say, label interview bites would have a clean, simple workflow for the same inside X.
Andy
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[David Powell] “That would be basically the same as having the clips all in the same bin. It’s a matter of visual organization for me to have them separated.”
I don’t see it that way at all. It’s not having the same clips in a bin, it’s allowing to see all the clips at once, or by one (to two) bins at a time, just as you do with Pr, just arranged a little bit differently, and it takes up significantly less screen real estate.
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Keep praying boys. I’m sure Apple “pro” is listening.
For me, FCP (all flavors) doesn’t pass the stink test.
It smells bad for a few years, then it disappears unannounced.
That’s a feature I can do without.
Re-calibrating my business around the whims of a consumer products company is undesirable.Thank you very much. Have a nice day!
Perry Trest
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[Perry Trest] “Re-calibrating my business around the whims of a consumer products company is undesirable.”
We are all at whims of companies though, Perry. In the past few years Avid delisted (then re-listed) on NASDAQ, Apple dropped the X bomb and Adobe went subscription only. Lots of upheaval and all for different reasons. IMO getting too dependent on any single vender or workflow is risky business.
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Move along. Nothing to see here. Mind the gap.
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