Re: Best Nonlinear Editing System Report

Hey Alex

Flow is certainly interesting software, but it exceeds my needs and it doesn't do what I want when editing, or maybe it does, but then that isn't clear.
Let me give you a corny example,;
You have to edited a program about the Beatles, they have interviewed 5 people for 1 hour. If you are lucky (or insistent) you get transcripts of all the interviews, (really handy when things get complicated)

In an editor (FCP, MediaC or what ever) you can set markers in the clips.Usually an interview is a very long clip.
So, Person 1 is reel 1 and he talks about the beginning, the end , ringo star , paul, john and ringo again.,
for Person 2-5 it's more or less the same.
If you could export this info(these markers) to a dbase you can very quickly find in which reel at what timecode people talk about Ringo or Paul or John and you could even set up some sort of relation with the transcript files. (I mean a relational dbase = but that might be overkill)

This really pays of when you have over 30 hours of material.

and it's doable
Because the sad thing is, is that what I describe you can do in Sony Vegas, it's true. You can script Vegas in a way that it automatically exports to FIlemaker. (A friend of my did this)
And in Vegas you can even type marker names without stopping the playback of your clip,
pretty amazing.
However the flip side is, that you can't edit in Vegas unless you are autistic and never have interact with the outside world. (besides Vegas is unstable, ugly, and it lacks a whole bunch of other things)

I hope this made clear why you really need markers in an editor and what more would be nice in this respect.

René Hazekamp