James Ewart
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[Oliver Peters] “Just one little example of the value of 25+ years of accumulated user input and product development.”
Would the playhead being in the middle of the timeline be too difficult a thing to do for Apple instead of constantly having to use the hand tool? (I’m sure there’s a shortcut somebody’s going to tell me I don’t know about here). Having the playhead disappear out of the Timeline “window” is annoying too isn’t it.
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[Oliver Peters] “The empty timeline window is just that – a timeline window or pane of the UI. In X, the content within that pane is the project.”
So to ask you the same question I asked Jeremy. What is a project over and above being a Timeline?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Funny. I can do it in three key strokes. Sometimes, two.”
Thank you I’m going to try that Jeremy. A little nugget.
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[Oliver Peters] “I believe Apple refers to the window as the timeline, not the content within the window. That’s still the project. If you look at the Event Browser, it separates clips and projects. Are you more confused now? 😉
So is an empty timeline with no content a project or still a timeline?
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[Mike Warmels] “but I want my NLE not to be an obstacle.”
I get you. All I can say is I am cutting stuff at the moment and occasionally thinking. “How would I have done that in FCP7 so easily” (really).
I do believe I am faster now but do understand where you are coming from. If you are battling the software to do something you could do before without even thinking about it, it can be distracting, slow you down and get in the way of your thought process.
Of course there is an adjustment process but there is a beautiful simplicity and elegance to FCPX although of course some things still annoy me.
The primary one for me is not having instant access to the opacity bar. And that does hold me up but not by more than other stuff speeds me up, which is principally sync and not having to worry about B roll getting knocked out of place, which saves me incredibly amounts of time.
Not having to worry about a section of the timeline if I cannot actually see it is really great. With FCPX you can have absolute confidence if you drop a shot in or lengthen a few frames nothing else is going to be impacted.
I love that.
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[Mike Warmels] “My biggest issue is: is FCPX really better or faster.”
.. of course therein lies one of the the big differences between all the users and all the different ways and areas we work in.
Faster by how much? You save an hour a day in Avid over FCPX? You may have incredibly tight deadlines to turn round a news piece. But in any event I don’t know how you measure faster. Is editing a race? For some people in newsroom I guess it pretty much must be. I think you are always going to be faster (for a while at least) working within an app you have used most because you have learned to do things its way.
in FCPX you might find you have to think differently.
In any event I don’t care a whole lot about how many cuts I can do in an hour.
Does it help me think more about shape, structure and pace without worrying about keeping things in sync or what’s going on ten minutes or even three minutes down the timeline?
Yes it does.
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[James Culbertson] “I can see it being irritating until someone gets used to it. But I’m not sure how it would be immature.”
So what is it I wonder?
“Clever” “Provocative” “Insightful” “Well Considered” even?
Perhaps “Playful” would be better?
For sure they must have thought about it a lot and decided it would rock the boat. But it’s needless and a bit silly in my view.
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[Bill Davis] “The reason they have Storylines and call Projects Projects instead of calling timelines projects isn’t an accident, IMO. It’s a calculated decision to construct a new set of ideas and adapt the existing the language to reflect that.”
Absolutely get that. But the thing that I called “immature” (somebody took exception to that but I think it is) was their decision to take a word in common parlance within the editing community (and the previous version of their NLE) and use it to describe something quite different. “Project”.
Yes they are nailing the colours to the mast an good on ’em but to use the existing word “project” for a “Sequence” has not done anybody any good (least of all them) and serves no constructive purpose.
They could have called it a “Timeline” in the Event browser or “Edit” or even “My Movie”. Just not “Project” please it has caused so much confusion and here we are still talking about it.
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[Oliver Peters] “I believe Apple refers to the window as the timeline, not the content within the window. That’s still the project. If you look at the Event Browser, it separates clips and projects. Are you more confused now? 😉
FWIW – Sony also calls timelines “projects” in Vegas. You can only have one timeline/sequence/project for any given open instance of Vegas; however, you can have multiple instances of Vegas open.”
I can never understand who you manage to keep your head around all the different NLEs Oliver. You are a veritable NLE polyglot.
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Do you think if we we all signed a petition they might …. just might … climb down on this one?