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

[Jeremy Garchow] "In X I can simply hit a favorite and come back later. It will get me so much closer, faster then double clicking and scrubbing a ton of clips in 7."

Agree but . . .

Typical working situation is one marks a range in the Event Browser and then one goes off to check something in the timeline or another clip in the Event Browser without hitting the F Key. The problem is hitting the F is one more keystroke and it's forgotten too often. For many, hitting the F key interrupts the stream of conscious when one wants to check something else before going back to a range.


[Jeremy Garchow] "Also, auto-fave would turn in to a mess. Then how do you know which ones are truly your Faves, and which one is just the auto-fave? Does that mean when I click on a clip and the whole Range is selected, is that now my auto-fave? "

It "auto favorites" ONLY when one moves to another clip. It doesn't replace the act of favoriting. It's an additional method to favorite. When you get back to the clip, if you don't want to retain the Favorite you select U just as one might hit Shift X to clear in/out in FCP7. If you don't hit U it remains in your Favorites. In FCP7 if you don't hit Shift X that persists as well. One might even make Auto Favorite a Preference Option to be used by those who want a Range to be persistent.