[Tony West]

[Walter Soyka] “I sincerely don’t understand why bins are bad, but events are good.”

I prefer the Event over a bin because with Events you are tagging an element so that it shows up in multiple “virtual bins” instead of dragging an item to different multiple bins.

I can tag it to be in 6 places faster than I can drag it 6 places.

Library Blues 2016

Event Blues vs Blackhawks
Tag goals
Tag Hits
Tag Fans

Event Blues vs Wings

and so on.

The more you narrow things down from the beginning, the faster you find things.

Think of an Event like a zip code. You could find a street address without it, but the zip code narrows it down to one spot on the entire planet.

[Tony West]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Aside from that I find events a very welcome and very logical organizational tool. I do an episodic. Instead of making one library per episode, which would make for a complete mess, I make one library per season and one event per episode. Exponentially better and easier to handle.”

Exactly how they were meant to be used in my opinion and how I use them.

Very simply and fast to get to things that way, but if someone would rather dump thousands of items into one event they have that option also.

[Tony West]

It seems like it comes down to how many elements you have in the project you are working on.

It can seem a little redundant if you don’t have that many elements, but if you are working on a project with thousands of elements that you need to get to in just two clicks it’s great.

As others have said, it’s another layer of organization that is very handy and fast.

[Tony West]

[Tim Wilson] “Which raises the question, Tony, what would a pro computer from Apple have to be to answer your question in the affirmative….

…AND to not chase people off the platform the way the trashcan did. ????”

I really just want maximum performance with the highest quality formats used in the market today.

No matter what I throw at it, it just performs smoothly.

I’m not sure, but if they have lower end computers that are cheaper and they want to sell higher end computers for a higher price, why should I buy that more expensive computer? Whats the incentive to buy a higher price computer if it can’t do more than a cheaper computer? How do you showcase that it can do more? With Pro Apps doing things that require more power than a cheaper computer has?

[Tony West]

I guess what I would say Tim is, if they replace X with something that I like even more I won’t be upset. I liked Legend right up until I started really enjoying X

I think as long as they want to sell Pro computers they need Pro apps to go with those computers.

What is your guess on them wanting to sell Pro computers in the future?

[Tony West]

[Tim Wilson] “Dude, you did NOT just say that Apple will keep something around just because it’s popular. In THIS forum. ?”

hahaha indeed I did Tim.

I don’t doubt Steve Jobs made those comments and I’m sure he believed he knew better than most people.

They are not in business to go out of business. It would matter to them if nobody bought their products and they went under. So I don’t buy that they don’t care at all about customers. That doesn’t even make sense to me. Them thinking they know better than you and not caring at all, are two different things I would say.

There are just too many people out there who want to edit video and they are gong to step to that in one form or another. Will X become Y or Z in 5 years? Maybe. I just think they will be a player in the field of editing for a long time.

At the end of the day, neither you or I have a crystal ball. We are just guessing. I made my guess and you yours. We will have to wait and see who comes closest : )

[Tony West]

It’s going to come down to how many people are using the program like any other product and I think to that end their changes are going to cause even more people to start using the program.

I don’t think Shake is a good product comparison because not even enough editors used it. It was a niche of a niche market.

I try to pay attention to marketing. Heck, that’s what many of us do for a living. It’s all right there on their page.

They are using the product to sell their latest hardware.

This is almost the first thing you see on the page, unlike the consumer iPhone and watch that you have to scroll almost to the bottom of the page to see. Placement folks.

Look at the first 4 apps showed. That’s pretty much what people do, take pictures, shoot video, email and search the web.

[Tony West]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “[Oliver Peters] “Well, maybe. It’s not a fundamental change, but rather a reworking of what already existed in roles. Since you could already export with roles summed into audio stems shows that this architecture was there, pre-10.3.”

I agree with that point. “

I think It’s a huge change.

Folks who liked tracks were not really arguing about roles that much. They wanted to be able to look at their timeline and see what was what at a glance when it came to their audio.

Some said color coded roles would help. (they did that and then some)

They addressed those exact concerns and pretty much took that argument off the table. Like they did with multicam.

Huge change.

[Tony West]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “And I still don’t understand how the people got it to be viewable in the review if it wouldn’t be possible at all…
“

I have not been able to recreate that either Mathieu. I know what you are going for and would like to know the answer also : )

[Tony West]

I think it’s an interesting question, not so much because I’m looking for his approval (I made my mind up years ago)
while he is a great editor, there are people on this forum who have way more expertise with the program than him.

One of the main reason he didn’t like X was because he likes to organize his audio in tracks.

At this point the way X handles organization of audio is pretty impressive and very organized.
They really kind of took the best of both worlds.

As far as feature films go, I think that was more about people saying “I told you so” because many people (myself included) knew that it could be used on one if somebody really wanted to.

He still may not want to use it because he has spent years developing a skill set that he uses with certain programs.
As good as he is, he would be starting from square one with this program and that doesn’t appeal to many people.

That’s something that’s always going to be a challenge for X, no matter how cool they make it.

I think years ago people may have asked about him using it before they started using it.
Like, “will you use it, maybe I will then also” I think now it’s more like “have you come over to my side yet?”