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

"But FCPX already has an index, right now. Today."

I thought you said the effects index was something you could foresee but didn't exist.

"Have you used it? Is there evidence in the program of those features?"

Like I said, dreams are in the eye of the beholder. Have you used your audio sorting yet?

"You can add roles en masse in the browser"

I work a lot on cooking shows. I never know, until I lay it in the timeline whether a piece of audio is dialogue or effects. I then often break up and change parts of the tracks as I refine the edit. How am i going to tag that in the browser.

And how do I look at your trackless timeline (because FCPX has tracks, they are just visually meaningless and inconsistent) and automatically know which track is which:

Say I have 2 audio elements, neither in sync to the video - one is a vo, the other is frying sounds. Later I decide I want to move the vo - with tracks I know, without clicking on anything, exactly which clip is which. How would I know which is which in FCPX - how would roles help me here without my having to click on something?

"You still haven't used FCPX, right?"

Still haven't hit myself in the face with a hammer, but I can guess it's gonna hurt.

"This process of patching the a/v in PPro is convoluted by the way, why do I have to patch it "twice"? Takes longer than it does in FC"

There are many things I don't like so far about PPro which is why I'm still cutting on FCP7. 2012 awaits.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions