Precision Editor

[Scott Witthaus]

[Jeremy Garchow] “The advantage to chiclet view is to allow very large timelines to be viewed on one screen as well as to get rid of the performance slow downs of picons and waveforms”

Exactly. I was tagging spots for various locations around the country yesterday and chicklet view is perfect for that. The base spot itself is ‘locked’ so there is no need for thumbnails and the various end cards have unique names. Much cleaner timeline and a bit better performance. I just want to have to ability to size the ‘chicklets’ like you can in any other view mode (meaning adjust the clip height with that slider).

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Robin S. kurz]

[Scott Witthaus] ” I just want to have to ability to size the ‘chicklets’ like you can in any other view mode (meaning adjust the clip height with that slider).”

Hmmm… but doesn’t that pretty much defeat the purpose of that display-mode? I’m also not clear on what you would stand to gain without thumbnails and/or waveforms showing, since that’s all that is affected by the scaling. But again, then why not simply use one of the first three modes as described above? And if thumbnails and waveforms are actually that much of an issue, simply collapse everything in the roles panel in addition (⌘clicking one collapses/uncollapses all at once btw)… bingo, best of all the above worlds and you can even use all five of the other options for varying results or “customization”, no?

Have still yet to hear how or why that isn’t a solution to the “problem”… but I’m fairly sure I know why. 😉

And I just showed a class the PE the other day btw, for fine-tuning their roughs and they absolutely loved it. Having the handles visible directly in context was extremely helpful for them. One even asked why PPro didn’t have something like that. And even if I might not use it every day myself, when I do, I love that it’s an option and a very unique and useful one at that imho. But an optional two-up while skimming the handles would be nice, yes. Whereby I don’t see how it qualifies as “eye-candy” either, since you don’t even SEE it unless you’re using it. And if you don’t use it, why should one care if it’s there or not? Or is just anything I don’t need or use automatically eye-candy on principle? 😀

I’ve also heard many calls for the PE in secondaries (which I would second), so it’s being used and appreciated by many apparently.

– RK

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