Re: Edit Assistant, I was learning FCP7...

[tom Barton-Humphreys] "Surely once Apple implament broadcast monitor support, more plugins, OMF (not using that plug-in, forgot the name), tape support etc it'll be a contender?"

Maybe. Maybe not...

The magnetic timeline may well prove to be the factor that takes "surely" out of the equation above.

Should proper "tracked" exports in FCP X ultimately be implemented by Apple or a third party, the question is, will long-form editors will really want to work for months with one view of their project, only to look at and implicitly trust an entirely different view of the same complex project just before taking it to their favorite mix facility?

Personally, my intimate knowledge of the layout of every event on the timeline in one of my edits is always quite helpful when I go into a mix, as the mixer is almost always seeing the project for very first time. Do I want to be seeing it for the first time too when I'm on the clock at a mix facility? I don't think so...

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