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The magnetic timeline sucks! ;-)
Or not…
Here’s my Thesis… One recurring criticism of the X timeline is that is has a “parent/child” relationship with vertically adjacent clips. This is seen as a bad thing. I’m not sure why, but it is. Anyhoo… I find that “parent/child” relationship actually makes editing orders of magnitude faster, especially when one has a timeline with lots of “tracks”
A cut is, of course, a linear/horizontal/time based thing. But that “thing” is comprised of lots of chunks of vertically linked clips. An on camera bite (picture/dialog/room tone/foley/fx) cuts to an action scene (picture/dia/8 different effects/foley) etc. All linked in time, but also individual… I dunno… pods if you will. Maybe they overlap, maybe not, you know what i mean… you’re editors. 😉
So, for me, the X timeline makes manipulating the “pods” so much faster and easier it’s almost ludicrous.
That’s my thesis. lol
So… I’ve been messing with Pr CS6 (New to me for the most part) and MC 6.5 (New version of an old friend) for a bit. And just for giggles I did a little comparison. It’s not scientific. 🙂
Same spot in Pr and X. I want to move a “pod” a few seconds later in the spot, pull up the hole it leaves, and fit it into it’s new position without changing the timing of anything else. Then undo it all.
The result is below.
To be fair, since I’m not a Pr speed demon/KB shortcut wizard, I sped up the Pr video to 200% between dropping the “pod” and the last trim move before undoing it all. I also grouped all the “pod” clips in Pr before I started, and didn’t clean up the random bits of clips that got split doing the move in Pr.This kind of stuff is why I like X, warts and all. 🙂
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Is this supposed to to play as a video?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “Is this supposed to to play as a video?”
Yeah, doesn’t it? Works here… It’s not that groundbreaking though. Just a time-waster. 🙂
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Just sits there like a still without a play bar or start icon.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “Just sits there like a still without a play bar or start icon.”
Weird, cow converts it to flash or something… can u see it if you click the link?
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Must be a Flash/Safari issue. Fine in Chrome.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Works for me in Safari 6.0.2 and OS 10.8.2.
Perhaps it’s one of those recent Flash issues. Make sure you’ve update to 11.6.
I noticed I was getting “blocked plugin” on some sites. Apparently defending against Flash security holes fixed in an update. -
It was the AdBlock Safari extension.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “It was the AdBlock Safari extension.”
Ahh, someone doesn’t like being marketed to.
Don’t you know if they can’t sell you anything they’ll all go out of business or otherwise be discouraged from moving their ad dollars to the web. 😉 -
Magnetic timeline: solution in search of a problem
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It solved some fundamental problems for me going back to around 1990 or so. One is the conflict between tracks for compositing and tracks for organizing. The other is a much prefer the default rippling.
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