[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “But I’ll note that there are other X communities with 10s of thousands of active members and we both know lots of very experienced X editors who don’t EVER come around here. So it’s reasonable to wonder why.
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Do the very experienced Editors go on any of these “other” Forums. I keep an eye on quite a few of them and none of the ones I have seen match the quality of discussion both here and on the Techniques forum

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “I’d invite him to drop by to discuss it – but sadly, after my prior experience with doing that kind of thing – the general feeling in the X community is that this particular Forum is pretty far down the list as a place where high end X users want to spend all that much time.
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Perhaps he could discuss workflow in the Techniques forum instead?

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Wilson] “btw, I really loved talking to Glenn. When I say he’s razor sharp, fast, and funny, keep in mind that he also wrote Bad Santa. (What? That was 12 years ago?) I mean, he’s written and directed lots of other stuff, plenty of it kind, generous (directed Crazy, Stupid, Love.), and even for kids (Angry Beavers, Wild Thornberrys), but duuuude, Bad Santa. I’ll get this posted as soon as I can, honest.”

Looking forward to that

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “Would love to hear from the non-manogomous editors out there how they manage to remember what keystrokes to use as they move from ap to ap.”

I don’t remap PPro to match FCPX and I jump between the two a lot, like you I prefer the full immersion too.
It isn’t a problem – eventually!

[Steve Connor]

[Phil Lowe] “I hate the trackless, magnetic timeline. I hate the audio controls (I much prefer Avid’s audio mixer), and I can’t stand skimming in the browser. But then, I don’t like the latter feature in Avid, either. I don’t like thumbnail view and rarely use it, even in FCP7. In short, there’s virtually nothing about the interface or controls I like. Having remapped the keyboard to match my Media Composer settings has made basic editing tolerable, but only so. For basic editing, that’s all I need. Going any further with FCPX, quite frankly, doesn’t interest me in the least.”

You really should have lead with that

[Steve Connor]

[Phil Lowe] ” I will have no use for it. Therefore, since I already own a Steinway Grand in Media Composer, I have no problem using FCPX like a cheap knock-off of the real thing, if that’s what it takes for me to use both. “

I think you’ll find FCPX is a modern Synthesiser, not a knock of of your old Steinway

[Steve Connor]

[Phil Lowe] “Well then I must be really confused about FCPX then, Oliver (and thank you for your reply) because everything I’ve read on these fora (mostly from Bill) indicates that you’re not really fast with it unless you use FCPX as it was meant to be used, that is by keywording every clip and range.
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This is a very important comment Bill

[Steve Connor]

Time to take this particular argument offline?

[Steve Connor]

[Jeremy Garchow] “It is true you can’t stack one timeline atop another. But you can still browse between Projects with the Project Browser, they just aren’t tabbed, they are arrowed.”

It would be great to be able to edit from projects in the browser window.

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “The ONLY distinction between a Menu Bar Tag (Favorite/Rejet/Unrate) and a user generated Custom tag is that there’s a simple filter stage built into the Menu Bar tags that lets the users filter the EVENT DISPLAY by that class of tags. You can Hide and Show Rejects and Favorites in the Event. Period. Other than that, they are JUST tags. They work the same as all other tags. “

I watched your MacBreak Episode, I think using JKL slows you down a little, I use the skimmer for range marking and I think it’s faster.