Re: The Position Tool Does Not Disable Ripple Mode - Here's Why

This is overly simplistic I know...

However, if one of the coders in FCP-X simply wrote a call to CoreGraphics and let you switch the appearance setting metadata tags of all your gap clips to "transparent" you'd have exactly the same visual representation in the FCP-X timeline that you do in Legacy, wouldn't you?

What you wouldn't have is the ability to tie those gaps to ANYTHING. They are just mostly useless forced pictures of time representation - which, while comforting for all of us conditioned to "see" time in the traditional timeline representation - really have no practical function beyond acting as "visual comfort food"

As "gap cliips" one could presumably write some code to "return aggregate time of all gaps in my project" and other DB functions that might be very useful at some point.

Essentially I'm saying that the difference between viewing a particular timeline aspect as a discrete "thing" or as "not a thing" is a primary concept. I can do something with a "thing." I can't do much with a "not a thing." comforting as it may be visually.

(thanks for indulging me - it was kinda fun to write that last paragraph!)

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