Neil Goodman
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It’s amazing how differently we all see things, but is it any coincidence your same post on Reddit got pretty much the exact same response with the very similar comments?
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[Andy Field] “This connected clips can only happen in FCP X is nonsense — heard of nested sequences? Want everything connected forever and forever — line em up – nest em Done.
Everyone loves their NLE but it seems only FCP X users feel the need to defend their using it.
“Nesting is a pain in the ass – collapsing as it’s called in avid is ok but you still have to drill down into to make changes which is an extra step.
I did just find the “group” feature in premiere today tho and that sort of acts like connected clips does but not nearly as elegant.
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[Tony West] “People often describe the program as “getting out of your way so you can focus on the story.”
When actually, it’s participating in the edit with you like some sort of assistant editor.”Thats a great description of how it actually works instead of all the other mumbo jumbo. I would read your article.
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[Bill Davis] “Which causes me to wonder, what’s the point in artificially constraining time markers on any story assembly system to a linear array of NEVER-changing tick marks. What’s the point of THAT?
“Im not sure I’m following correctly – but you do need absolute time. At least I do. I dont think about it while Im creatively doing my thing besides making sure Im not going over, but nearly everything I edit has to be to the frame a specific time.
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[Bill Davis] “Prepped assets that can be imbued with the editors actual EDITORIAL INTENT before they arrive.
“Again, how is this different than another NLE.
Even in Imovie, I can set the in and out, on a bunch of clips and organize to my hearts content. Then when its time to put stuff down, ONLY the things I as an editor choose go in thetimeline, and the exact point in the story or point of reference that I CHOOSE.
Welcome to non linear editing ????
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I did, all the points about time/ versus story etc. That was in my post. Also the stuff about prep making your timeline editing easier which is relavant to every NLE, that was in my original post. I guess you missed that.
It’s not a tracks/trackless argument. It’s about basic editorial principals.
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It sort of is a big deal because like Shane pointed, The writer assumes a lot an out the way people edit in and outside of X and I feel like they were horrible assumptions.
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[Bill Davis] “Yes, but your PROGRAM doesn’t honor and preserve that decision across any possible future changes you might make. X does.
“Seriously, what does that mean?
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Good write up but something new? Not really. Same thing people have been writing about X for the last couple years.
My only issue with the article is that he assumes people weren’t paying attention to story simply because time has something to do with tracks? Doesn’t make a ton of sense to me, and for shortform editing where you have to nail your spot to the frame, time is something you can never ignore.
The other thing that keeps coming up is how when your setting in and outs and keywords and ranges before hitting the timeline in X this makes you much faster. how is that different than the prep you do in another NLE, besides keywords which can be very simply replaced with markers in other NLE’s?
As someone who has been working in X more consistently lately to a point where everything is pretty fluid now, I can defiantly see some benefits but as far as real world applications of getting people to switch, I really don’t think its different enough from the competition.
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The weird thing going on with Avid right now – is that it is the fastest developing NLE on the market right now hands down. They have a monthly release schedule and bi weekly . releases for bugfixes.
The problem is there adding some really helpful features and little enhancement tweaks constantly – but their not the big ticket items everyone’s been asking for, for years that seem rather simple to implement and that have been promised.
Me..Im pretty stoked on the Avid toolset – theres a few things that Id like them to deliver on – but overall Im a huge fan as some of you may noticed.
For the first time in 10 years Im using a different NLE at work and its driving me nuts!
Someone please tell me if theres a way to make keyframes on multiple stacked audio clips at once, and then select and manipulate all those keyframes at the same time. That would really save me a ton of hair!