[Mark Bein]

Apple Folks will compile macosx on a hackintosh.

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[Luke Hale] “What features do you demand are put back into FCP before you will use it again?”
Wrong Forum?
I think most here use it.

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[Gary Huff] “”Please specify encoder complexity.”

“Please specify H.264 level.”

“Please specify quality level.”

“Please specify audio codec.”

“Please specify audio kilohertz”

“Please specify audio bitrate.”

Yeah, quite the timesaver.”

Do you always wade through all the options?
I use the same most of the time.

SIRI knows a bit about context.
How about “Use the same settings as the movie I did yesterday, upload to my server and call me when you’re done”

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[Walter Soyka] “Apple put the burden of interchange on the rest of the industry “

That’s almost what XML is all about!
It’s not a file format – it’s an eXstensible Markup Language.
A readable, well documented description of a fcpx project.
It cannot have the same flavor as fcp7.

XML makes it very easy to import/export for the rest of the industry.
That’s why it didn’t take long.

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[Marvin Holdman] “putting news media in the hands of the untrained is poor idea socially”

Is this an official statement from the chinese government?

[Mark Bein]

I was actually just about to answer your post,
but then decided to scrap it for reasons you mentioned.

So here it is:
It is misleading when Walter Biscardi writes Apple should stick
with established XML versus their new flavor of XML.
XML is not a standardized video editing file format.
XML is designed to be a language that is easy to understand and
extensible when needed.
If you have well documented XML, practically every software developer
should be able to translate any flavor of XML to another.
So if AVID does not support (FCP)XML you could even have someone
program a translator for you.
Since it’s so easy I expect some solution to appear soon.

Also – as Chris Harlan mentioned – Roles might just do
the trick for you.

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[TImothy Auld] “You do not have to fill up a bar with pauses before you go on to the next.”

That’s not how a score is written or printed. if the bar isn’t full you write rests.

[TImothy Auld] “And because music notation is so mathematical and precise, that cymbal crash to which you refer, always happens at exactly the same place within the context of that piece of music.”

“Within the context” means the time that crash happens is connected to the underlying beat.
Unless the conductor is a machine the time it actually happens will vary each time
the score is played.

[TImothy Auld] “These are conventions that have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. They are understood by musicians the world over.”

Still not shure what that’s got to do with the timeline of fcp7.

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[David Lawrence] “In fact, to take the analogy further, if a musical score behaved like the magnetic timeline, it would mean you’d have to write special “gap notes” between each of your regular notes to indicate silence. “

In a musical score you have to write pauses to indicate silence.
You even have to fill up a bar with pauses before you start a new one.
A musical note only defines pitch and duration, not an absolute starting time.
So each note is played directly after the note or the pause before ended.
Now, it is possible to indicate wether a note within its time frame is to be
played short (staccato) or connected to the following note (legato).
However, the physical space on paper stays the same.
If you want a crash cymbal to be played in bar 100 in a musical score, the absolute
time it is played is depending on how far the orchestra has progressed.
In FCP7 the crash would sound at 04:15 regardless of wether the orchestra started
a second late or the score/conductor had changed the tempo at some time.

David, I’m not arguing wether the magnetic timeline is good or bad.
I just think the musical score analogy doesn’t work for an open timeline
and may even work better for the magnetic timeline.

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[David Lawrence] ” Each object was simply placed where it needed to be in time, like a note on a musical score.”

A musical score needs gaps (pauses) just like fcpx.

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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I’m going to tell Robert Wise you said that, and he is going to get up out of his grave and find out where you live.”

He is going to strangle me, shouting
“HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WORK WITHOUT SPEED RAMPS?”
“WHERE ARE MY SHORTCUT KEYS?”