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

[David Lawrence] "No, in/outs were the first thing I learned about editing. I'm talking about a different way of seeing editorially. It's the difference between seeing/feeling the cut while selecting vs defining and assembling content chunks then fine tuning after. In my experience, there's a different mindset at work"

Exactly. Editing is about the cut, not the range.

I know when I'm editing alot of the time I just want to select an in point on various clips (takes) of a scene and see if that works with what I've got on the timeline so far. I'm not concerned about the out point at this stage. I'll worry about that later. But first, does this CUT work?

So I've got 20 clips in a bin, 4 angles, 5 takes each of a scene. I just want to scrub, mark in, next clip, scrub, mark in, next clip and so on and then come back and slap each clip down see if it works, moving through like that. Out points I worry about on the timeline.

Maybe that sounds messy but I can do it pretty quickly and it works for me.

Simple as that.
FWIW.
YMMV.

My 2 cents.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia