Re: Apple engineers versus an editor's ability to set persistent in to out points in their footage.

You're going to feel how you're going to feel about it.

You see it as a hack, I see a feature as I actually "hacked" fcp7 to be used this way (truly persistent saved "ranges").

No one knows accept Apple if this represents a "broken" database. I tend to feel its not that dire.

You hit f, you have a temp favorite, you can always delete it, just like you can always set a new in/out in fcp7.

It simply works differently. Two means to the same end.

If you really like a range and want to keep it, keyword it. Don't favorite it.

This is why I think we should dissassociate favorites and keywords. They are very different.

You can also add markers to any of these. Markers are text searchable.

The Event system is always changing. It can be much more dynamic than a bin system. I welcome it, perhaps it just might not be your bag.

I don't see this is a glitch in the matrix. "You" can't keep wrenching fcpx to be fcp7. I know that phrase is now cliché.

Really if you don't want to favorite, just add the range to the timeline. Anywhere. The timeline will adjust for it. You decide you don't want it? Delete it.

Or you could simply just favorite it. Save it for later. You decide you don't want that favorite anymore? Hit 'u'. It unfavorites it. It's really f*cking easy. You have to think with intent. Excuse my, Irish.

Could Apple add temporary ranges, technically? Maybe. It would just mean it would have to store a range on all the dynamic clips everywhere in some sort of cache. Favorite allows it to add that decision to the database with intent. So what? Think of it as a "save" action.

Jeremy