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Why doesn’t FCP have an Undo History List?
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[David Roth Weiss] “The only argument is whether a better undo is actually better, and since Herb and I actually had the capability for years, it would be impossible for those of you who have never had it to convince us that it’s not a significant improvement.”
I still put it at “would be nice, but not something I’m going to write Apple about.”
I have to agree with Raffy on this one. Undo History, if it’s like Photoshop, just means you can step back to a certain point and start again. I have my Undo set to 50 so I can step back very quickly with Apple Z. In After Effects I leave it set to 99.
So it would be very difficult for me to call “Undo History” a significant improvement since it’s just a variation on what we already have and it’s something I hardly use at all in Photoshop. Different folks need different things, but this is something that if it was released, it would be a “that’s nice, but did you fix Media Management yet? Can I do an offline / online workflow without the need to hope and pray Media Manager actually does its job? Is there a reason why you can’t design the offline / online workflow to be as simple as Select timeline, Select Codec, Redigitize ONLY that material in the timeline (like Media 100 has done since 1996 at least).”
anyway, enough of that, I’m obviously on the side of “would be nice, but not significant.” Y’all have fun!
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[David Roth Weiss] “since Herb and I actually had the capability for years, “
Not only on the Discreet. Avid had it for years. My use for it is not exactly to undo 30 steps at once but for it to tell me what i am undoing! I have to watch the timeline like a hawk one slow undo at a time and many times I can’t see what it is undoing because the actions are small. But if it tells me “Undo trim 4 frames” or “Undo mark out” or “Undo replace edit” then I know 100% what it is undo-ing. It’s a everyday time saver.
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Premiere Pro (like many Adobe apps) does have a history panel. However, I’m usually removing it from the interface myself.
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All ya discreet editors are forgetting the very best thing about the edit undo. Every timeline and bin had it’s own SEPARATE undo history so you could go back to a timeline you cut long ago and still have relevant undo.
One thing that bugs me about FCP undo is that it counts changing the timeline zoom as an event but doesn’t visually change the zoom when you press CMD-Z. You end up having to undo what are essentially phantom events to get to the relevant event that you are looking for. It ends up being a brain teaser …”did something change or do I have to push it again? Where the hell am I in the undo/redo.”
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