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

[Gary Huff] "Jeremy, this is part of the reason I don't believe you really know how much "faster" FCPX is in this regard. Moving audio to an entirely new track is just as fast (if not slightly faster) than re-assigning a role.

Do you know how to create a new audio track? Click and hold on the clip you want to move to the new track, pull down to below the last track, and release. 1-2 seconds max. How much faster do you think this can get?"

You are assuming there is room for this. What if the tracks above and below are not effects tracks or aren't empty? Then you have an effect dangling that screws up your whole export, right? I guess I am assuming greater than a simple stereo export.

You can not believe me, that's fine. I am not saying all this because I am trying to trick you, or convince you, or tell you what's best for you. I am simply reporting my findings after having using both devices. I guess you can only take me at my word, on a forum it's really all I have. In FCPX the audio stack order simply doesn't matter, you can put it anywhere. I find this method, in the whole of the edit, much faster from input, organization, edit, to output. I spend less time managing, more time with the edit and eventually I hope more power will come with more control.

When going back to FCP7 from FCPX, everything is way more slow, more mechanical, and more importantly, less creative. That is important to me, maybe it isn't to other people.

Sorry if I'm not explaining it well enough, perhaps I should never go in to sales.