Re: Motion TRACKS versus FCP X Trackless

Well, I'm glad final cut pro has caught up after 20 years. Kudos to the ProApps team for ripping off a truly great idea!

In all seriousness though, it's not just about scrubbing a thumbnail. 7 had it, it didn't work that well.

[Oliver Peters] "While I agree it's nice, I don't see the tremendous leap over FCP 7."

I do. It's different for me and works differently. I cannot setup 7 like X and have it work as efficiently. Perhaps you can. I constantly have to use timelines in fcp7 to see what I have, I don't have to in X. Via key wording/favoriting/compounding, I have access to either clips, collections of clips, or timelines of clips AND my master timeline in one interface. 7 works differently.

The keyword system is hugely dynamic, the bin system is not. I cannot get access to every piece of media in my event like I can with bins, unless I dump everything in the root level of the 7 project, and then that destroys all of my organization, not so in X. Even if all my clips are at root level in 7, there's not much I can do to them until I load them in a viewer, not so in X. There are master clips I have to be mindful of, not so in X.

I could go on, but in my opinion, 7 and X (and Avid) don't work quite the same way. I favor X's approach. It fits me. A big pool of data, rather than shelves and hallways that I have to go pick up what i want, take down off the shelf, set in on a workbench, and return to the shelf, or return part of it to the shelf, leaving behind what I need.

I agree about batch expo, and source side effects. I would imagine, all in due time, although I am hoping for a step up in real time LUT/color transforms than baking proxy media, but there's advantages to both sides. It'd be nice to be able to bake that stuff in when "creating proxies" in X. Man, that'd be sweet. In the "create Proxy" dialogue, the ability to add an effects stack. Sweetness.