Re: The Magnetic Timeline -- What's The Paradigm? On Clips and Tracks

[David Roth Weiss] "There you go Chris, ignore the context of the thread and try your best confuse the message by making the discussion about semantics and the history of word processing if that's what it takes to make yourself look and feel knowledgeable. "

The thread context was the value (or lack thereof) of using positioning on the vertical axis of the 2D space provided by a traditional multitrack timeline as a way of organizing different types of clips. There is nothing WYSIWYG about ability, because the timeline itself does not show up anywhere in "What You Get". Calling this WYSIWYG is like calling writing HTML code WYSIWYG, because, hey, I can see the code for a header there, and when the page renders I get a header.

This is not a meaningless semantic distinction. It is critical to be able to control every aspect of the appearance of the final program, because otherwise it can't reflect the creative intent of the editor. No such concern comes into play with the arrangement of the timeline.

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