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The exponential greatness of the magnetic timeline in FCPX
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[TImothy Auld] “Anyone have any comment on the lead pipe cinch fact that Avid has had the equivalent of the magnetic time line for 30 years or so? But you can turn it off if you need to?”
I have mentioned that in one of the earliest threads around here, but it didn’t seem to phase anyone.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “For me it’s a pro and con. I object to the fact that removing a dissolve at the head of a timeline causes a shift in timing by half the length of the dissolve.
I’d love to see a way to lock storylines or clips in a position relative to time, not each other. Like turning on track locks in other NLEs.
In general I like the magnetic timeline for roughing in an assembly, but really cumbersome when polishing the edit.”
I agree with all of that. I think you can pros and cons about the timeline without being a hater…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Well, we’ll see if it fases anyone else.
Tim
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[Scott Witthaus] “Three months? You should know much faster than that.”
I don’t know about that. Look through all of the forums across the ‘net related to X and you’ll see a re-occuring theme. That of people struggling with X for quite awhile until something “clicked”. I’m not sure 1 month is enough unless you are solidly involved in a complex project for that month and are using X in ernest.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “I have mentioned that in one of the earliest threads around here, but it didn’t seem to phase anyone.”
Non-X users here. Isn’t the action of media moving out of the way (automatically ‘making a hole’ if you will) as you drag a clip around the timeline one of the big features of X’s timeline? Avid’s timeline certainly doesn’t do that.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Are we talking one month or three?
“One month is the trial period.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Isn’t the action of media moving out of the way (automatically ‘making a hole’ if you will) as you drag a clip around the timeline one of the big features of X’s timeline? Avid’s timeline certainly doesn’t do that.
Yes. This.
I’m not aware of any NLE except X that overlaps the clips to avoid collisions. I think the name “magnetic timeline” is a poor choice, since the “magnetism” is really just ripple editing, which any NLE can do. What might be a better, more accurately descriptive name?
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[Andrew Kimery] “automatically ‘making a hole’ if you will) as you drag a clip around the timeline one of the big features of X’s timeline? Avid’s timeline certainly doesn’t do that”
Actually in its simplest form, Media Composer does and has since the earliest versions. You have to have a simple cuts sequence of aligned audio and video. You have to switch the timeline to the heads view. This lets you rearrange clips on a single track in pretty much the same manner as simple clips in the FCP X primary storyline.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Oliver –
But overlapping clips in Avid results in overwriting the non-selected clip(s) that collide with the selected clips you’re moving. Which is normal if one assumes “I’m doing this because I mean to.” But it’s all too easy to do it by accident, and it’s an ongoing pain in the @#% to move the clips out of the way in order to protect them.
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[Jeff Markgraf] ”
I’m not aware of any NLE except X that overlaps the clips to avoid collisions.”Sony Vegas does… but you can also turn it off.
Shawn
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