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

I do follow that. But the need to render any effects ‘appear’ equally in the timeline and the canvas. And all physical connections have render times, a delay of cause to effect. You flip a switch in the dark to complete an electrical circuit. There is a delay before the light comes on. And when the light comes on, there is a delay before it reflects off the objects around you and reaches your eyes. And when it reaches your eyes, it takes time before our eyes adjust to the increase in light. And a delay before our brain takes this information and makes sense of it.

The canvas and timeline, as designed, are two parts of the same interface. We can drag a clip from the viewer or browser to either the timeline or the canvas to have them appear in both. By design, there is always this connection. And if we had FCP 8 in our hands, the rendering, at least in terms of watching the results of edits in the canvas, would be, for all practical purposes, in real time.

If we could see all changes of our edits in real time then the process would feel much more natural. It would be easier to learn. It would be easier to use. This was the hope in the next version of FC. And in a way it is here and in a big way it is not.

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