Joshua Pearson
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I haven’t used X a ton yet, just messed around at home… but here’s what I don’t like about the timeline that noone else seems to be bothered by… i don’t mind the horizontal magnetism, which of course can be nullified, its the vertical magnetism, or as i call it the “gravity”, where all clips have this unstoppable gravitational attraction to the centerline… I use the tracks in my FCP7 sequences, especially during very complicated long-form, as reassuring method visual categorization, i.e. all my GFX clips on track 7, all my stock photos on track 6, etc. etc… same with audio, i push all my music down to tracks 10/11/12/13, etc… so can i very very quickly just zoom out to the big picture and SEE what my music is doing, SEE where clusters of photos or graphics are… i find this much quicker and more visually elegant than having “roles” show me where things are in a jumbled X timeline… it helps my brain feel organized simply by seeing the whole thing as an orderly graphic object, rather than the forced jumbled pile of blocks of an X timeline.
In short, I like to put things where I want to put them, vertically, and have them stay there.
Otherwise i really like X.
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Yes I know… I’ve been editing since 1988, first with tape, then with Premiere, then with Media 100, then with FCP v0 through 7… I’ve been at it a VERY long time, and yes you’d think I’d expect these things…but no matter how long I’ve been at it, its till ticks me off when it happens.
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A crappy card, I’ve been told… only 512 megs VRAM… trying to swap it out soon…
Regardless of my hardware configuration, it is always a bummer to have software work fine for a bunch of time, then fail after an incremental update that is supposed to “improve” performance. Nothing else about the project has changed.
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YES PLEASE!…. i work on a lot of documentary TV shows… I have the luxury of having transcribers who use software called Pilotware to make nice transcriptions with TC ins at the start of paragraphs, and for the past year or so i have been literally copying and pasting the paragraphs from the transcript into FCP’s marker comment box… its actually very nice to use markers as a way of jumping from paragraph to paragraph in the sequence and see in a nutshell & quickly what is being said… and of course it is roughly searchable, you can search for a word or phrase and it will take you to that marker… but it won’t highlight the word or anything, and it won’t take you to that exact spot in the sequence, you still have to do a little searching…
unfortunately i just yesterday noticed that for some reason FCP 7 now has a limit on the number of characters that will display in the canvas… after pasting a paragraph into the co0mment box, only about half of it displays in the canvas, unlike FCP 6 where it would all display.
There is something nice about being able to see a whole paragraph in a box, as opposed to a “subtitle” type thing, where you’d have to play it out or scroll to see the whole phrase.