The Mother of All NLE Demos

[Bret Williams]

I wouldn’t go back to tracks any time soon either, but IMHO “maintaining sync” is something that X does not excel at. The king daddy of that is Avid and utilizing sync locks. If they still have that feature. It’s been awhile. This was instantly apparent to me when I saw the demo presented 4 years ago, (where you can view Randy knocking audio out of sync whilst he demos how it keeps everything in sync), and after 4 years nothing has changed.

[Claude Lyneis]

Like stepping into a time machine. I remember borrowing a camcorder, buying a firewire cable and hooking it up to my Mac. iMovie came with the MAC and I was amazed how easy it was. I had only done crash editing with a VCR before that. The pace and progress in these technologies over the last 20 years is mind boggling, tracks or no tracks.

[Steve Connor]

[Claude Lyneis] “Like stepping into a time machine.”

I started on a 2 machine U-Matic suite!

[David Lawrence]

[Mark Raudonis] “I laughed at the concerted effort to try to explain how different this “MPS” was from traditional editing systems. We really have come a long, long way.

This video belongs in the NLE museum of history … right up there with the Wright bros first airplane.”

Thanks Mark 🙂

For me in the role of as editor/test pilot, it was a combination of Wright Bros. and the Mercury Space Program. I was using the system for a commercial product for an important client and responsible for client deliverables on a fixed production schedule. All while the system was evolving every day as I was using it. Plenty of nights crashing on a couch at the ranch after discovering a days work lost to a corrupt database. Fun times! Anyone complaining about the beta nature of software updates today doesn’t realize how good they have it 😉

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[David Lawrence]

[Bill Davis] “Tracks were clearly the terminus of the collective NLE imagination … twenty seven years ago.”

So were databases. 😉

Glad you enjoyed!

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[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “[Claude Lyneis] “Like stepping into a time machine.”

I started on a 2 machine U-Matic suite!”

At about the same time, I was programming (editing) video wall presentations for concerts/trade shows etc. All the sources were on Laserdisc. Wish we’d had the fancy UI that David did, all TC number punching for me. 😉

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[Bill Davis]

Touché!

Tho I still kinda believe that tracks and roads are critical – right up until somebody invents an affordable, easy to fly helicopter. Then not so much.

And so it goes.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Oliver Peters] “Tossing in the argument that tracks are somehow old and no longer valid and that those people are “clinging to the past” is exactly the sort of unproductive thing said here, that most FCP X-enthusiasts deny ever saying.”

With a few, vocal exceptions, most FCP X-enthusiasts are probably just teasing if they say that. And those that really believe it are… unhelpful IMO.

[Oliver Peters] “There are plenty of things that X is not well-suited for, just as there are things that tracks are not well-suited for. Rehashing this blind obedience to some concept that X is the most brilliant way forward seems pretty closed minded – just as much as adhering to tracks without recognizing the value of other approaches.”

I think most people who actually use more than one NLE for real work would agree with you. I do. Though I still maintain that tracks suck when editing. 😉 I’ll concede that they have their uses when mixing. Though a Roles revamp could change my mind. 🙂

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[David Roth weiss]

[Bill Davis] “Tracks were clearly the terminus of the collective NLE imagination … twenty seven years ago. ; )”

Audio tracks go back well beyond twenty-seven years Bill, and like it or not, they remain the industry standard for the vast majority of editors and audio technicians worldwide.

David Roth Weiss
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[Bill Davis]

[Carsten Orlt] “FCP X is a genius piece of software that shows that you don’t need ‘rigid’ tracks to work comfortably and in actual fact gain functionality that wasn’t there before.

Happy editing
Carsten”

Dude,

Prepare to be demonized. You literally can’t stand up in the church of the historic timeline and espouse that ANY of the existing dogma might be dated.

It’s like poking a wasps nest.

Trust me.

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