Love the Cow for this endless debate on the merits of editing systems. I guess that’s the point. It’s an end in itself, and most of it is about the technology and different variations on the same task by the NLE systems. That difference is actually not that big. That’s where this debate sometimes turns tedious. Because no matter the differences between the NLE tools and their iterations, editing is and will always be about visual storytelling. The language of motion picture storytelling, editing, will always be the same. The future of editing is the past of editing.
So what I look for in an NLE is the ability to stay out of the way and allow me to put a story together in the most efficient way. The best NLEs should strive for that. None has come close yet, though it seems Apple is creating a path to go in that direction.