Marcus Moore
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All good ideas.
“Soon” is a relative term, though. Since we’ve just had a big feature update, I’d suspect 10.0.7 will be a maintenance and bugs release (maybe January?). That puts 10.0.8 well into March/April territory.
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I’m aware of that. I’m just not sure we can rule out that kind of behaviour at this stage. Every version of FCPX is adding new windows (multicam viewing, event viewer), HUDs, etc. It seems to me the the platform is much more flexible than FCP Legacy ever was.
Let’s not forget that FCPX already runs some Logic based plug-ins. Who’s to say that they can’t pull some of the non-clip based processors over as well.
You may be right, FCP Legacy survived for 10 years with it’s audio toolset. If people needed more, export OMF/AAF to ProTools.
I’m just saying IF there’s going to have a mixer, that’s what will need to happen.
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It can’t be nesting. You can currently take a bunch of audio clips and put them in a compound clip (basically nesting), but once you do that any individual clip connections you have to the primary storyline are broken and replace by a single connection to the compound clip.
What I’m talking about is only a visual collapse to keep the project timeline clean. 1 “track” per Role until you need to do detailed work on it’s elements. But while you’re editing in the primary storyline, any connected clip will continue to keep it’s position.
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I wonder if the solution might be that you can expand and contract a role, much like how the multichannel audio expands now in 10.0.6. Clip connections would be maintained, but the role would be only 1 “track” high. For example, all sound effect would be visible as a since block with all the clip connections still visible and active. But if you need to add, delete, move an element, expand the role for access to the individual clips.
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You’re right there’s no way to do that currently. But I’m not sure how you could ascertain if it “could” be done.
Visual organization of roles I would like to see sooner rather than later, but as for the more involved mixing tools; that’s a function I would imagine we might see in a 10.1 release next year (NAB?).
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I’d start by deleting your project render files.
Also, any compound clips that originated in 10.0.5?
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It’s not convoluted at all. Roles (or sub-Roles as needed) could be assigned to sub-mixes, then to master mixes. With the editor being able to apply adjustments or effects at either the clip, role, sub-mix, or master-mix level.
The elimination of hard tracks is necessary for the magnetic timeline and connected clip conceit to work. But a “Role” is really just a virtual “track” that potentially allows for multiple layers of information at once.
The biggest problem with it’s implementation in FCPX at the moment is that the Roles metadata isn’t used to automatically organize material in the project timeline. Roles should not be sea of green waveforms that they are now, but color-coded and stacked in an order defined by the editor.
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Forestall oversees iOS development on all fronts. Not the hardware, mind you. Just software.
John Browett was head of retail, but he’d only been with the company for 8 months, and he’s no big loss as it didn’t seem it was working out. He replaced Ron Johnson who basically grew Apple stores since they started in the early ’00s.
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I don’t think it’s quite that opaque- we know what these guys do in the company.
People will link Forestall’s departure to iOS’ Siri and Maps launches (and they might be right). Mark Papermaster was let go after the seeming failure of “antenna gate”.
Ego? Personality conflict? Wanted to move on?
In the end we’ll never really know, of course.
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Practically, I’m not sure how much of an effect this will have on FCPX; Randy Ubillos’ position of head of video and photography seems pretty secure, and despite the rough-start, FCPX is making strides.
The impression was that there was friction between Ive and Forestall. Ive WAS NOT a fan of skewomorphic design while Forestall (and supposedly Jobs) was. So we’re likely to see a lot less leather and simulated torn pages in iOS and OSX UI in the future. And that’s fine by me.