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

[Chris Kenny] "Timelines are never WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG came out of the print world: you make a page look a certain way on screen, and that's how it looks when it prints. Nothing of the timeline appears in the finished product. The timeline is an abstract symbolic representation."

Hi All, still on the road but wanted to quickly jump in. This statement is factually incorrect because it's confusing literal representation with symbolic representation. A timeline does not look like the media it represents, but it has a direct, one-to-one relationship in space to every frame in time. Where the time indicator is parked in space, directly maps to the corresponding frame. Advance one frame in space on the timeline, advance one frame in time in the media. And so on. Time/experience visually mapped to space -- it couldn't be more direct. More in my next post.

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