Re: macbook air and fcpx- the new portable edit suite

[Jeremy Garchow] "You mean how the Events work.. or how they operate in FCPX"

i mean the basic fact that we're dealing semantically with events as persistent entities, that default as time based events - it makes sense in photo applications because the items are singular and self similar, literally snapshots, and my understanding of what has taken place is based in part on my participation in it - it was an event, I took some photos at it. I am now doing some adjustments and storing them in my DAM.

If I walk into an editing house to do some freelance, or I'm handed a brief by my boss, the event that is taking place is me walking in the door, firing up FCP and setting the preferences appropriate for the project I'm being paid to cut and reading the brief - that's the event. the idea that the first thing I see is everything that ever happened on that machine is nothing short of a joke. An editing system is a clean repeat machine - it is not supposed to function as a full blown persistent digital assets repository like iphoto or aperture - editing systems cycle repeatedly through new projects afresh - the idea that FCPX accretes everything constantly, every piece of media its ever used and every project that has been cut on it, and exposes all that to you unless you pay phillip hodgetts to turn it off is really annoying and deeply sad.

Its sad because its a stupid, stupid idea to do that to an editing system, even a single user system, its stupid - and all that means is that there isn't much of a pro apps brain trust left in apple. I said above in the thread that there is stuff out there saying the XML spec is a mess - its barely documented, and it doesn't even reliably carry DB levels. The whole thing just reeks of bad news brown.

If apple want a DAM they have to put it in back like adobe bridge - in terms of what's actually going on in the top left of my application - its one of the things that is wrecking FCPX - if we pull the event DAM back out somehow maybe some space gets freed up up there and they can figure out how to fix all the filmstrip mess and the lack of a source monitor.

I personally think there are massive problems with this software. Big ol' cracks running up all the supporting walls.


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