[Gary Huff]

[Bill Bruner] “And you are correct, focus peaking is not available with system lenses.

I need to see verification on that.

[Gary Huff]

[Daniel Frome] “However, I thought it’s been the consensus for years that Adobe products perform better on Windows if the specs are evenly matched.”

That has been my experience (I am dual platform).

[Gary Huff]

[Tom Laughlin] “The other question I have is about the 50 MB/s recording and how much of an impact that requirement is having, or how much US Broadcast is adhering to this?”

It doesn’t and I would be willing to bet they don’t really.

[Gary Huff]

[James Ewart] “I’m led to believe that saloon and rally car drivers more often than not bypass the clutch and jam the gear in to save time.”

I do that when I’m late to work.

[Gary Huff]

[Tom Sefton] ” surfaces that change from tarmac, gravel, grass, mud, snow and ice!”

Not like those pansies and their asphalt! :-p

[Gary Huff]

[Charlie Austin] “Adding an audio/video clip from a multichannel source to a sequence with dozens of audio tracks and/or stacked video tracks without overwriting something would be impossible.”

Well, the difference is that I am incredibly organized. I setup my sequences in as efficent a manner as possible, mostly so that if someone else has to take a look at it and work on it, they can get up to speed quickly without having to decipher a bunch of procedural b.s. Probably stems from my programming background.

I also don’t work with multichannel audio. Never been asked for anything more than a stereo mix.

[Gary Huff]

[Charlie Austin] “I was talking about patching tracks. Whether putting something in an empty timeline, or making revisions to an existing cut/version/whatever. I’m surprised you never need to do that.”

I rarely have to use track selections unless I am doing copy/paste operations, and it’s not something I feel like I actively think about.

When you work in FCPX, you have “tracks” as well, as you have to position clips if you use the mouse so that they don’t jump into the primary if that’s not what you want, or use a different keyboard shortcut if you are editing from there.

I find I use the keyboard more often in FCPX, but it’s not to the point where I feel that the workflow is so much more revolutionary than how I handle tracks within Premiere.

[Gary Huff]

[tony west] “He was talking about first putting something in the timeline and selecting the track that you put it in.”

I don’t work that way.

[Gary Huff]

[tony west] “Come on now Gary, you know you have to pick a track at some point.”

I don’t have a problem worrying about overwriting clips already in the timeline.

[Gary Huff]

[Charlie Austin] “Before you cut something in to the timeline in your NLE, do you have to make sure that the correct audio tracks are included or not,”

No.

[Charlie Austin] “and make sure you’re not going to overwrite existing clips in the timeline?”

Seriously, who has this problem?