Gabriel Spaulding
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You are possibly not wrong 😉
Gabriel Spaulding
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I do not understand how you consider this a “mode”. You have different tools just as you do in Premiere Pro or any other software. Perhaps it’s the same tool albeit with a modifier key, but at that point if you’re pressing a key what’s the difference if you press the B key instead? The number of times I have been annoyed by using the blade tool is precisely zero. With the skimmer —not having to drag or scrub a playhead— Command B is super fast as well. I don’t see how this is even a thing, blading a clip is like the easiest thing in the world.
Gabriel Spaulding
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I feel like most people aren’t turned off by FCP X itself but by the positive things that others say about it. How dare they call it forward thinking? What nerve do these people have to suggest that it has made editing fun for them again? Who are you to say you’re editing faster now? It’s a really odd thing. Now it’s “forward thinking” but not forward thinking enough because Apple didn’t rename every tool. We just can’t win. I don’t know any FCP X user that wants everyone else to use FCP X (Adobe is the company with Evangelists…), but just for people to understand that FCP X is a viable and wonderful tool, and after nearly 6 years one seldom hears, “I recognize that it is a really nice tool, I just prefer Premiere Pro (or Avid, etc.)” it’s normally just misunderstanding and vitriol.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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I have no insight into Apple’s naming conventions. I’m not saying they’ve all been given the best possible names.
“Yes…and they are called wheels. It wasn’t changed to some other thing as wheels are in the past. They are wheels, still used as wheels, still called WHEELS. They weren’t changed to ROTATIONAL DEVICES for some arbitrary reason.”
The point of the space shuttle analogy was to demonstrate that the “forward thinking” FCP X (space shuttle) still has legacy tools like the blade tool (wheels). Just because FCP X did not revolutionize every single aspect of video editing and retains some useful legacy tools does not mean that the app is not forward thinking.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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I addressed that in my last post: “That FCP X calls sequences “projects” is an odd choice, admittedly, but this has zero impact on the work one is able to get done).”
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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Apple has added nothing to the Blade Tool, which is precisely why there was no reason for a name change.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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“Add edit” is clumsy. Sure, you’re adding an edit point where before there was none, but you’re really just cutting a clip, slicing it, blading it, whatever. This is nitpicking at the highest level.
“But for an application that people say is so forward looking…that us dinosaurs need to move to the future…” Even the space shuttle has wheels, FWIW.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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Based on that logic, shall we be suspicious of every NLE developer because we still call it the “playhead”? Sure, After Effects calls it the “Current Time Indicator” but that seems like a completely unnecessary and clunky name change. If it’s functionally the same as it’s always been, why change the name? (That FCP X calls sequences “projects” is an odd choice, admittedly, but this has zero impact on the work one is able to get done).
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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” I’m just finding it odd that for an app that’s so forward looking (or claims to be) it still has terminology and icons that refer to film.”
I see where you’re coming from but slicing a clip is a fundamental editing requirement. If Apple reinvents this operation, adds some functionality to it, then I’d agree that it ought to have an updated name. Until then, it seems like a silly argument.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
Videographer | Video Editor | Motion DesignerHow Can We Help You Tell Your Story?
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What’s wrong with the “Blade Tool”? You’re cutting a clip in virtually the same way you’d splice a piece of film. There is no functional difference, no reason to divorce the terminology from its analog counterpart in this case. Blade tool, scissors tool, Samurai sword tool… you’re just cutting a clip. I agree with Steve, who cares what it’s called?
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
Videographer | Video Editor | Motion DesignerHow Can We Help You Tell Your Story?
http://www.aceenterprizes.com