[Steve Connor]

Fair point, I’m putting the time in because I can and if it goes wrong I can always switch to PPro. Apple completely blew the launch, I just wish they would make the effort and give us a proper roadmap.

The .1 release will tell us all we need to know

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “outside of mythical unicorn age of aquarius single new adopters”

Still with the insults then?

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[David Roth Weiss] “I don’t know why, but after reading about Project X27 I get an image of bank robbers jumping into their getaway car, driving to another spot where they change cars, then jumping right back into the original getaway car to make their escape.

Later, their all sitting around in jail wondering why the plan failed.
“

But that’s an analogy for normal XML interchange surely?

In the X27 example they would change getaway cars twice, but be completely unable to get back into their original car.

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Jamie Franklin] “I’m not happy people prefer or are even remotely in compliance to this change, I just don’t understand how they can or prefer to work in this environment.”

Strange comment, why would other peoples method of working make you not happy?

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

Nice summary!

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “That old favourite of these forums, William of Occam, he say: entea non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem or in the plain language of the Angles beatified by Augustine: entities should not be multiplied if not absolutely necessary.

But of course this somehow doesn’t apply to the iMovie/FCPX conundrum, where of course we are talking about two completely different things.

Let us not talk about the superficial similarities of the entire interface which are well known but utterly irrelevant.

Let’s not discuss why FCPX shares the exactly the same idiosyncratic and not altogether perfect project management window as iMovie.

Let’s not talk about how the Transitions, Generators, Music and Effects, Titles, etc. browsers are identical in design and operation.

Let’s not talk about how the FCPX Event library with its underlying metadata management system was so oddly but coincidentally prefigured in iMovie.

Let’s above all not draw attention to the fact that the magnetic timeline with its default rippling behaviour (!), its connected clips (!), its apparently identical Replace modes (!), its Precision Editor (!) and so on and so on, all seemed to have appeared in iMovie long before we knew anything about FCPX.

Let’s not remind ourselves that the very same designer unjustly vilified for his creation of FCPX was earlier unjustly vilified for his creation of iMovie 08 – naturally he would have remembered nothing of what he’d done earlier with iMovie (apparently in another dimension of space and time) when quite by chance he came to work on FCPX.

None of this is relevant, because old William of O. is just plain wrong in this case.

We are talking about two entities which only appear to be the same by the merest coincidence and did in fact, miraculously, arise entirely spontaneously and independently during the same timeframe in exactly the same spot on the planet.

It is of course much more likely that Apple just happened to design FCPX along the exact same lines as iMovie without having remembered that they’d done it all before, than that FCPX, heaven forfend, is in any way descended from iMovie.
“

So you’re saying you DO think it’s related to iMovie 🙂

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “and god knows its dying. This place may yet be its very last echo chamber. There are no mythical part time snowboarders getting on board in droves, there is no industry pickup, no london shop will touch it, automatic duck just fled, and our roundtrip to FCP is now, weirdly, via a random stallion colour corrector. or CatDV.
“

Has learning Avid put you in another dark mood Aindreas?

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Or this. From Digital Rebellion feed:

https://t.co/vDHd298r“

Mindblowing! Hoverboards here we come

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[TImothy Auld] “Maybe I don’t fully understand (and it wouldn’t be the first time) but I don’t see how you can have a magnetic timeline and tracks. Any tracks option would have to disable the magnetic timeline wouldn’t it?
I don’t necessarily hate the idea of a magnetic timeline – When I work in Avid I almost always have the sync locks on which is at least half a magnetic timeline) but I just don’t see how the tracks would work without being able to, at least partially, disable the magnetic timeline.

bigpine”

There is a theoretical possibility that Apple could add the option of fixed secondary storylines, these would act as fixed tracks, the magnetic timeline also doesn’t work by default in secondary storylines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxGbDcnmfZs&feature=player_embedded

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

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[Steve Connor]

I’ve only done simple projects so far, having a few issues with compound clips. I have a more layered project to try tomorrow!

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”