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[Alex Gollner]

Given that Apple seem to want to avoid leaning on the old A/B roll editing metaphor used in established editing applications, there’s a good chance that editors will get the feature they want with a different user interface.

So there may be multiple skimmers (using different modifier keys) that can, in some cases, be locked together in various ways for trims, rolls and colour correction. These skimmers would then populate various viewers in preparation for a series of edits using mouse, trackpad, gesture or keyboard. This implies some more window control via retrievable layouts too.

It’s a matter of each FCP X update having a balance between two kinds of feature: features ‘as good as or a little better than FCP7/Premiere/Symphony’ and features ‘Adobe/Avid/Autodesk cannot implement because of internal application structure or UI metaphor’.

One concept of classic screenplay writing is the hero not getting what they want, but getting what they need. There is plenty of evidence that Apple don’t plan to give editors what they want or need, but I’m glad one of the ‘As’ is attempting to try something new.

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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