Touchscreen Editing

[Gary Huff]

[Benjamin Mullins] “is it reasonable to expect touchscreen NLE’s in the near future and do you think this would be an even faster workflow? What would you like to see in a touchscreen NLE and how do you think it might work for the user?”

I think it’s reasonable to expect someone to try it. It will be physically tiring to use and you won’t have fine control without having to massively zoom in the interface. It’s something that looks cool, but otherwise isn’t very practical for day-to-day editing.

[Craig Seeman]

I agree with Gary on this. I can’t see picking my arm up for hours at a time. I don’t think Apple would do this either. It doesn’t make ergonomic sense. I can see this on a tablet since there’s no easy alternative on that device (such programs already exist). Even a touchpad would be problematic for fine control. I doubt it would be faster than keyboard.

[Andy Neil]

Touchscreen has some uses, but it just doesn’t make sense for extended computer use. Might as well skip it until you can invent a visual/thought based interface.

However, touchpad editing might be doable. Issues with fine control can be addressed, I feel, without making the interface clunky. And having a dual hand multi-touch pad in front of you would be much easier on your hands than a mouse, keyboard, or other pointing device.

Andy

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[Michael Phillips]

I think you will see better integration of multiple input and interactive approaches to most application, whether it be touch, voice, eye tracking, mouse, keyboard, etc. For now I can see multitouch combined with mouse/tablet as a pretty nice interface. On my Bamboo tablet with touch, I hold the pen a certain way that still allows my two fingers to scroll, tap, etc. and quickly use pen for precision. My other hand is on the keyboard for text entry, modifier keys, shortcuts, etc.

Michael

[Gary Hazen]

[Craig Seeman] ” I can’t see picking my arm up for hours at a time.”

If the touch screen interface really takes off, it will be real easy to spot editors in crowd. They’ll be the ones with arms like Popeye. “Oh man, I did a 12 hour session today and my forearms are burning”.

[Andy Neil]

[Gary Hazen] “They’ll be the ones with arms like Popeye.”

Or else they’ll be the ones with computer monitors at a slight incline to the surface of the table instead of perpendicular.

Andy

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[Timothy Auld]

I can see how that might be fun and useful as an option as long as that was not the only way to work. But for me the monitor would have to be awfully big. Like Minority Report big. Editing and dance could then merge.

Tim

[Walter Soyka]

[TImothy Auld] “I can see how that might be fun and useful as an option as long as that was not the only way to work. But for me the monitor would have to be awfully big. Like Minority Report big. Editing and dance could then merge.”

I can only assume that the gesture for dynamically trimming an edit point to the current time will be a finger snap.

Walter Soyka
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[Jari Innanen]

This one brings back memories. Anyone remember DAR Soundstation? I edited sound with this for a feature.
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[Bill Davis]

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