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

[Craig Seeman] "Normally when organizing one might create keyword collections, smart collections, favorites of course. There's are times in the decision making process where I select a range in the event browser but, before making the edit, I either find myself going to the timeline or, sometimes, to another clip in the event browser to check something. At that point you've lost your range in the clip you initially selected in the event browser. Sure you could remember to this the F key but all to often, some of us have a tendency to check something someplace else and lose the range. The problem is in those situations, hitting the F key, puts a mental brake, an interrupt, in my thought processes."

I guess since this is the way that FCPX works, I literally hit i,o,f when setting ins and outs in the Event.

It's much easier to simply save it up front. I don't worry about it, I save the favorites range and move on.

If I don't want it later, I hit u.

I guess I have made it part of my workflow and don't really think about it anymore.