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Tracks are Indispensable.
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[Richard Herd] “Do you mean audio clips and/or picture in picture and composites?”
Audio. Great piles of it. 🙂
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[Bret Williams] “but then you usually end up having to trim lots of clips.”
True, but in this case not so much, All SFX, no music, and the heads/tails of the audio wasn’t really a big deal. Long rises to hits, hits with tail outs, designed sfx under pix etc. Ya know… typical horror film :30 TV. 😉
[Bret Williams] “I do miss extending multiple layers with the g tool.”
Yeah, there are some things I kinda miss about 7 when in X, but there are lots more things I miss about X when I’m in 7 or Pr…
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[Charlie Austin] “Not sure that helps Bill… And to be fair, there are plenty of workflows where tracks serve a purpose. Mine isn’t one of them.”
Yes, that is certainly true. But, don’t say that here, the insecure people will be offended.
Last week I had an occasion to visit FCP 7 on a project that was shot 12 years ago and transferred to FCP7 some time after that. I had no problem working in 7… the tracks don’t scare me, but then I don’t scare easily, I guess. Even though I hadn’t seen 7 in at least a year, I had no problem operating it. I guess it all depends on how good you were in 7? A lot of people I know that love X weren’t all that competent in 7, though they seem to think they were.
Yes FCP7 was slower than FCPX in terms of raw speed, but then it’s on a 2008 machine, not the flame-throwing nMP. Almost makes me want to try FCP7 on the nMP. Almost…
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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[Mitch Ives] “Yes, that is certainly true. But, don’t say that here, the insecure people will be offended.”
Yeah, :sigh: what is it about software that brings out all this angst? Mac vs PC, NLE vs. NLE, Gamer vs Gamer, Spy vs. Spy?… wait, what?. Guess it’s just a guy thing. :shrug:
[Mitch Ives] “Almost makes me want to try FCP7 on the nMP. Almost…
“well, a friend is running 7 (and other things) on just such a machine. Due to the architecture of 7, it’s really probably about the same as your 08, maybe a bit snappier. It runs OK on my 2012 iMac. As does Pr, MC, X etc, some of which have tracks. Which suck. 😉 They don’t scare me, they make me angry. lol
Say what you will about X, but it never tells me something I want to do “isn’t allowed” dammit!
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[Bill Davis] “But Charlie,
They’re so organized looking, and, like, I know what they all MEAN, and they feel so, well, COMFORTING, and you know, HOW CAN I TELL WHAT THE HELL ANYTHING IS WITHOUT TRACKS! – cuz, you know.
They’re TRACKS.
for gods sake.
How can I get stuff done if you take my TRACKS away? ……….. (i’m scared)
(said way too many people over the past 4 years)
“Tracks arent nearly as annoying as this post. SMH
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Yes. Especially since the vast majority of us have to deliver tracks.
Tim
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We need a setting in every NLE not just Sony Vegas apparently that deals with audio clip collisions as crossfades. The default setting should always be “if two audio clips collide, then crossfade them.”
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When NLEs start using tracks as well as a DAW like Fairlight this argument might be interesting. However given the rubbish implementation of tracks and the failure to capitalise on the major strengths of tracks by most NLEs, then I think X has got it right for editing.
Post finishing I still prefer to have tracks.
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