Re: Todays FCP X announcement

hi craig,

"Timelines have been used for certain functions that FCPX endeavors to obviate the need for."

do you mind me asking what endeavours these are?


"Organizational needs will be managed by metadata."

i'm willing to adapt to this mode of working although i used to organize my media via sequences.

"Visual feedback some might still want be the function for that is already diminished."

this is a big problem for me. i am working in a VISUAL medium and need visual cues to remember what i have and where.

"Basically you have to look at WHY you need one clip on top of another. There are other ways to fulfill most of those needs."

to composite/layer (its also much easier to organise visually but i dealt with that above)

"Roles, while still a work in progress, allow you to disable clips that perform a specific function. They provide control based on function rather than track layer."

to be honest i have no clear idea what this means but it does seem to me its another step towards conceptualising (and hiding from the eye) what one used to be able to see and make more immediate desicions based on this vision.

adam