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

[Jeremy Garchow]In what program?

Adobe Premiere CS5.5 primarily.

Imagine being able to sort the timeline as you want

I never really need to "sort" a timeline in the way FCPX does it, but under Premiere/FCP7, I'm currently editing a mini-doc (in FCP7) and I have different segments of the interviews as nested sequences. I've been playing with the order and the clips that bridge them with ease. There's not been another way I've wanted to sort the timeline outside of what I can already do.

being able to add/remove effects as you want,

Do this all the time. Click on a clip in Premiere's timeline, select the "Effects" tab, I can delete it, adjust it, copy it or even turn it off temporarily if I need to speed up the response time of the NLE and it's a CPU-heavy effect. I find Premiere is easier in this regard than FCP7, though about the same with FCPX (except for the copying aspect which is much quicker in Premiere as you can copy only selected effects).

export only what you want (by Role, or whatever)

I haven't played around with Roles in FCPX yet, but I've constantly had to export either a screenshot of a frame, isolated audio, video segments, ect. Just select the range, go to export and adjust for the right format that I want. I fail to see how it could be substantially faster than what I already do. Only difference is that I do have to be organized if I want to, say, export only video or only motion graphics or whatnot, but I'm organized and so I can just turn off and on tracks to get what I need. I wouldn't be surprised if assigning the Roles in the first place evens out the time spent with assigning by tracks.

arrange Roles in the order you want to export to other programs.

I have no idea what you mean by this. Off the top of my head it doesn't sound like something I've needed a solution for.