[Tony West]

Mine crashed on me yesterday.

When I opened it back up it was like a brand new app.

All events and projects gone.

I restarted the computer and then everything was back to normal.

I don’t know if you have tried a restart.

Very scary.

[Tony West]

Thanks for the cool article James.

I to got a kick out of those neat notes also. It looks like you used a line leveler to do it : )

Jokes aside, that’s a great idea to put the notes up.

I thought X was a perfect fit for news right out of the box. That timeline is perfect for it.

I think X can be used for more jobs than it can’t be used for.

I like the roles export also.

When I first got X I just dove right in. I wish now I had taken more time to learn short cuts. I was just gong to learn it while doing projects but I think I could have saved myself some time and frustration had I did what you did.

[Tony West]

[Richard Herd] “Ain’t this really about stopping the race to the bottom?”

yes

[Tony West]

[David Lawrence] “[tony west] “What somebody did then, you should be able to recreate with 2012 technology some ten years later.”

2012 technology has nothing to do with UI design. The UI metaphor is whatever the designer chooses. A trackless timeline is a design choice, not a technology.
“

I don’t know if I agree with you on that one David.

technology |tekˈnäləjē|
noun ( pl. technologies )
the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes,

But more to the point, was that video supposed to be an example of something that could not be done in X?

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[Aindreas Gallagher] “how can there be no onus on the makers of editing software to respect a notion as basic as this?”

I don’t know if we can tell them how to run their business other than to not buy their product.

I think they owe it to themselves as a company to separate themselves from the competition and try to be profitable.

I think the only thing a company owes to anybody else is to try to be a good contributor to society while doing it.

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[Lance Bachelder] “I don’t think they’re gonna lose the race in the long run, they have far deeper pockets than Avid or Adobe and can literally wait until the current crop of kids using FCPX as second nature, enters the work place and eventually replaces us all.
“

Yes, Lance.

That’s why I decided to at least learn it. I can’t bet against a company with that much money.

[Tony West]

[Richard Herd] “and also secondary storylines are tracks.”

Yes.

I really don’t do things that differently than I did them before. I still stack clips up on top of clips.

It still has tracks, they just move out of the way when you drag one toward another.

That video was really cool, but it was made in 2002 in (in SD no less)

What somebody did then, you should be able to recreate with 2012 technology some ten years later.

[Tony West]

Liam, I can only tell you how “I” got around the in out frustration.

I think what threw me off was muscle memory from legacy.

Before, you had to do more clicking and dragging with the playhead needle, to get around clips and timeline.

Now you have the skimmer, so you don’t have to click on the source to see it.

Once I set my I and O it stays there, unless I click on the source clip or another source clip.

My mm was to “click” on the source clip to look at it again or to adjust the i and o but as you know, that makes the i and o go away.

So I just don’t do that and it doesn’t go away.

It took me a while to get out of the habit of clicking to adjust the source i and o instead of grabbing the
i and o handles like they want you to, but once I got that down pat I never think about it.

You could hit f like some have suggested but that’s an extra step that depending on how fast I need to go I might not take. I love the hitting f when I need it, I like that it’s there.

As I edit, most of the time I don’t hit f and I don’t worry about my I and o going away because I know what it takes to make it go away and I simply don’t do that.

Many people have the skimmer turned off because they don’t like it. If you turn it off that makes you have to click, and that makes it harder to do what I talked about.

I don’t know if this will help anybody out there but it sure helped me.

[Tony West]

I had to rent a laptop for a project the other day. I went to a small mom and pop place that does work on macs, rents them and sells them. (I bought my current mac pro from them)

For the heck of it I asked a woman who works there who I have worked with in the past if there would be a new Mac Pro.

To my surprise she said “YES”

I asked, “will it be a tower, like that?” as I pointed to a tower on the showroom floor.

She said “yes, it will be a tower”

I was struck by how matter of fact she was about it.
They are independent and this is all they do. They have been in the biz working only with macs for years so I would have to believe they have contacts who are suppliers and stuff.

She didn’t have a date of when.

We will see.

[Tony West]

Good points Clint.

It would be cool to work on some experimental type stuff you described.