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

[Jeremy Garchow]You can add roles en masse in the browser, think of it as preassigning your video and audio assignments before you even edit.

It's easy to say this, but probably won't be as easy to do. What do you mean by "en masse"? Let's say I import a bunch of clips (audio and video) into FCPX. It will "sort" them in the most basic way possible and then I have to still select groupings of clips to assign them. I.E. I may have imported video b-roll, video interviews, music, audio clips, ect. There is no "en masse" way to assign anything to this because FCPX has no way of knowing itself what each clip is until I assign it personally. So, before I can edit a single frame of footage, I have to click on or otherwise select a grouping of clips, and assign them that role.

Then when editing, I don't have to stop and think and click which Video and Audio tracks of the incoming clip are mapped to which tracks in the timeline.

But you haven't really saved any time because you had to spend it all at the beginning prepping footage...and again every time you have to import some new asset.

Are you shocked at that conclusion? You still haven't used FCPX, right?

And neither have you...at least not the FCPX you're talking about.