Re: One year later... NOW: standardizing on one tool or using them all?

David-

If you read this subthread, I have answered your questions.

A zillion ways to move a clip in the timeline maybe, but there was not a zillion ways to do anything, especially as the video and computing industry around it started getting more advanced around it.

Chris is right, it's how you define flexible. My flexible might be your limited, and vice versa.

You might hate the FCPX Event structure, I might find it one of the most powerful "next steps" shown in an NLE to date that reflects the current and future state of media. To each their own. it has nothing to do with price, it has noting to do with level of professionalism or lack there of, it has to do with usefulness.

It's the reason Mark Raudonis chose Avid, and it's the reason I am still waiting to test all the latest offerings. Let's remember that CS6 and Autodesk aren't on the market yet.

Fcp7 was flexible as long as you followed certain rules. XML was the most flexible part of fcp7 as it allowed you to control data outside of fcp and bring it back in, but FCP7 itself didn't have those controls built in to it.

My idea of flexibility may go beyond a bin structure, which in my opinion may have had a place and time along with subsequent metaphor, but not so much to me anymore. But that's me and how I operate and it might not apply to everyone.

Fcp7 was great in its day, it's now time for something different. I'm not saying it's necessarily fcpx, or cs6, or smoke, but I will know it when I see it. Fcp7 stills works for us today as well as it did on June 21st, 2011. Eventually, it won't.

Jeremy