[Craig Slattery]

[Rafael Amador] ” I don’t make videos for the people to watch while drinking a coke and eating pop corns. Not all video production is about filling the empty time of people with an empty brain in front of a TV.”

That’s true Rafael, to be honest I make proper brainy TV for BBC Two audiences, but lets face it,at home Id rather be watching Big Brother. My argument is not about content, I cut TV all day everyday, mostly documentary for the BBC. I just think there is no ligament reason to stick with track based editing. I’m not saying its difficult, or that it hampers creativity. Its just boring and completely unnecessary, its true! I have seen the light, and its in FCPX. I predict that this argument will be obsolete in two years, because all the systems will have adopted their own version of the magnetic timeline.

[Craig Slattery]

[David Lawrence] “I wouldn’t hold my breath ;)”

Only time will tell. But Im very rarely wrong.

[Craig Slattery]

[andy lewis] ” I do a lot of documentary and really don’t like the idea of an NLE forcing me to be less open-ended and democratic.”

This makes me laugh. What we do is take a bunch of footage to make a story and people watch it on their telly. It’s pretty simple.

[Craig Slattery]

If I would edit with some kind of script, probably I would edit FCPX.
rafael

Couldn’t disagree more

[Craig Slattery]

That’s the point. Edit assistants prep the work before it goes of to audio dub. I don’t get involved. To that extent the audio editing in FCPX is completely fine, no different to FCP7, Avid. Don’t make things more complicated than they have to be.