The new way of editing

[Greg Burke]

[Craig Seeman] “ly I think a large portion of the “haters” refuse to believe a new way might actually be better/faster”

Its a 64 bit iMovie, why can you not see that…that doesn’t mean its a bad program, but to KILL FCS for it was ridiculous

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[Craig Seeman]

Admittedly not “Pro” now and I certainly do see that. It will be “Pro” later but they’ve left many with nothing between now and then. Sure FCS2009 still works but it’s way behind in some areas and some people rightfully can’t wait and others can’t expand.

Though in today’s Larry Jordan blog
https://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/
I’ve had emails or phone calls from three different resellers telling me that Apple has notified resellers that it is offering them a one-time, two-day opportunity to buy as many copies of Final Cut Studio (3) as they want.

While this is not the same as putting FCS (3) on the open market, it does mean that the product will be available from selected retailers for a while longer. If you need licenses, contact your favorite, non-Apple store reseller.

So every few days Apple begins to budge a little more in thinking about extending the life of FCS2009.

[Gary Pollard]

Sony Vegas has only been doing this for at least five years with its velocity envelope.

I’m not knocking FCP X, but I certainly see its developers have taken a long hard look at an editing program most editors haven’t looked at once.

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

[David Battistella]

I’d say we no FCP 7 so well that we are aware of all of it’s editing shortcomings and what we wish an NLE could do. FCPX does answer a lot with regard to breaking down organizing and yes, editing footage. Putting shots together, trimming, seeing all if your footage at a glance, reducing clutter in the interface, etc.

When you start to use it you can feel that they watched editors work. They broke down the tasks and freed things up.

Clip collision. That was a roadblock.

I think we will see more posts like this when the initial shock is over.

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[Misha Aranyshev]

[David Battistella] “They broke down the tasks and freed things up. “

Like separating Overwrite form Backtimed Overwrite? Are you kidding?

[Herb Sevush]

“Clip collision. That was a roadblock.”

I don’t have the slightest idea what you are talking about here. What roadblock?

This whole magnetic timeline thing I don’t get in the slightest. Why would I want to move a clip with both audio and video into the same temporal space as already existing audio and video. Why would you want to have 2 pieces of dialogue occupying the same time, unless your doing a piece about schizophrenia.

What’s the roadblock – you can insert a clip to create new space, overwrite the existing clip, or any of a dozen other variations in a standard NLE – what on earth does the magnetic timeline get you?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions