Timothy Auld
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Sadly I’m not nearly as good looking as the pictures at the top of these forums.
bigpine
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If Apple had included support for legacy projects, XML, multicam, and a way to turn off the magnetic timeline this forum might not even exist. The land of if is a magical kingdom where all things are possible. I still maintain that most of what I see on this forum is healthy, productive – if sometimes heated -discussion. There are abuses by a few on both sides of the issue. I think they are far from the majority.
bigpine
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Perhaps I am wrong but my perception about this particular forum is that, since June 21, it was a place for people to post opinions about how X works, whether or not it works for them, if they like the way it works or not, and to voice frustrations about it. And that is what people have been doing here. There are a few exceptions on both sides who flog their blind loyalty to one thing and another, but for the most part what I see on this forum is healthy discussion that could only help to speed improvements to FCP X, if that it is indeed Apple’s intention. That is I believe why the Cow started another forum for FCP X techniques which from my reading gets a lot of traffic with people posting problems and getting excellent feedback from the Cow community.
bigpine
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Andy,
I just wrote a long post about how the magnetic timeline was not the only problem, etc. and then on re-reading your post realized that you were talking specifically and only about the magnetic timeline. I hope I edited this post in time to not seem like a complete idiot (at least in this particular situation.)
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Anything’s possible if you are willing to spend the time and the money. The fact that FCP exists at all is due the fact that Apple was out to destroy Avid for having the bad form to want to abandon the Mac platform. Your suggestion is a good one that would make a lot of people happy but sadly I don’t think it’s going to happen. The shortest way to that end would be to simply begin selling and supporting FCS 3 again. But I don’t think that’s going to happen either. I hope I’m wrong on both counts.
bigpine
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Yes, if a bar is not otherwise filled up with notes you must insert rests to make the number of beats
conform to the time signature. But that’s not what you said. You said you must fill up the bar with pauses
before you go on to the next. Not entirely clear.Unless the percussionist is behind the conductor (which in most orchestral situations will get you sent
immediately down down to the minors) that cymbal crash will happen in the precise place it is notated to happen.As for what conventions that everybody understands has to do with the FCP X timeline, I’m going to let you think about that for a while.
bigpine
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Music is mathematical. You indicate silence by inserting rests of a very strictly defined duration. You do not have to fill up a bar with pauses before you go on to the next. There most certainly are ways to indicate whether a note is to be played stacatto, legato, sostenuto, or otherwise. 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. These are conventions that have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. They are understood by musicians the world over.
bigpine
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What are you talking about?
bigpine
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Nor can I. I’m Interested. I’m open. But I’m not hearing anything that tells me I will be able
to continue to make a living with X. The very few words emitting from Cupertino do not make
me optimistic about this.bigpine