[Robin S. kurz]

[Tim Wilson] “NOBODY cared. Look around the web. I defy you to find that ANYBODY wrote about this at the time.”

Hmmm…

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2469078/windows-pcs/ten-years-old-today–how-mac-os-x-changed-apple-s-world.html
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/05/mac-os-x-revisited/
https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/macworld-feature-ten-years-mac-os-x-3483890/
https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/03/the_next_ten_years_of_mac_os_x
etc. etc. etc.

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[Robin S. kurz]

But then… why even use that (most of the time)? If you want to insert something, simply do it. Remember? It’s the magnetic timeline. 😉 A “double-arrow” tool would be both redundant and superfluous. Which is why it obviously will never happen. I’m very surprised to hear anyone that knows their way around X (or claims to) even actually ask for it. Weird.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “You can use the timeline index to select everything on your right or left from the playhead.”

If you need to SELECT everything, yes. Otherwise, again: option-W at the beginning of whatever you want to MOVE, done.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Oliver Peters] “Yes, even though Apple had it in FCP “classic”, they chose not to implement it in X (yet).”

Nor will they. Ever. Because making an extra TOOL for that would be nonsense.

Have you ever simply considered option-W? It’s the magnetic timeline, remember?

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

Unfortunately for Premiere, “looks like” and works like” are two entirely different things. 😛

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Simon Ubsdell] “namely Record Voice-Over and Background Tasks.”

Damn. You got me there.

Okay… but you know what I mean. d-; Those of course being probably the only functions/areas that you’ll not want open beyond a glance or single use, so embedding them into the interface like everything else I’d say would be counterproductive.

And sure, if you wanted to be pedantic, then there are in fact several plugins that invoke a floating window (which I actually don’t think is always great either) as well. So there’s that.

But there you go! So Apple does know when to let go of basic GUI principles and convictions! ;-D

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Simon Ubsdell] “The height of the Inspector is at all times constrained by the height of the Timeline […] but you can toggle the Inspector to full height as needed.”

Yes, I actually mentioned that further up. 😉 That would be one of the tweaks I would love to see that makes a lot of sense.

[Simon Ubsdell] “but it does suggest that Apple don’t always design things in the best possible way.”

I don’t believe there is a “best” for anything. No matter HOW you do it, it’ll always be a give and take in one way or another and you’ll never make everybody happy. I just personally feel that the way it is (incl. the headroom for improvement) is one with the overall least “takes”. Turning to floating and/or randomly swappable windows and tabs most certainly is not a solution imho, quite the opposite. And if you look at ALL of Apple’s apps, there is not one that has floating anything anymore, where they ALL used to have floating everything. Aside from maybe Motion’s HUD. Which I in fact find difficult to work with, since there’s never a good spot for it. It’s a constant on/off… or just plain OFF, as incredibly useful and clever I find it in principle. So they could even dock THAT for all I cared. 😀

So I think it’s pretty delusional to think they’ll suddenly “come to” and go back to floaters etc. anytime soon, if anyone actually believes that or thinks it’s somehow a good idea or could pose an actual improvement. Do you?

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Michael Paul] “How do I copy my LUT settings to another clip?”

Simply select all the clips that are to be assigned the LUT and set?

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Simon Ubsdell] “you thought that it was impossible to improve on the rigid layouts”

Aside from them not actually being rigid but already pretty flexible, I only meant that I think it’s pretty obvious that Apple isn’t in the “if everyone else is doing it, it must be right” game and therefore won’t just blindly follow others, yes.

[Simon Ubsdell] “for the last 5+ years.”

As opposed to what Adobe has had for, what, the past twenty+ years? 😀

Either way, I can’t think of any time where Apple made changes of X’s magnitude to anything, software or otherwise, and then just said “Oops” years later only to do an about-face. 🙂

Avid on the other hand strikes me as (maybe) having had actual GUI designers sometime in the late eighties, possibly nineties. Since then the engineers have made all the icons, any and every other interface element and related decisions. 😛

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

Wait… are you talking about in FCP? Or in the Finder? You need to be a tad more precise. Because now it sounds like you’re talking about in FCP. In which case, yes, if all you do is drag a project or clips to a new library i.e. event, then no folder structures are maintained. How could they be? They’re not tied to the media, but to the event. If you want the folders, drag the folders.

And sorry, but FCP does not delete keywords either when moving from library to library. Those ARE in fact tied to the media (inside FCP). If you’re seeing something else, then something is wrong.

– RK

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