[Jules bowman] "Perhaps you're just foolish enough to think the emperor's new threads are hipster fashion. We are all aware the fool is butt naked Bill, and we giggle at your inability to see it.
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Giggle if you like, but
And let me make this crystal clear so there's not mis-understanding...
You - do - not - understand - how - to - edit - in X.
Period.
You can absolutely "save" in and out points for any edit. You simply select a range and apply a key word to it.. You do it in the Event Browser. You do it before you start putting clips in the timeline. Doing it this way preserves your in and out points for EVERY edit you'll ever do with the clip from that point into the future. These are "saved edit points" Period. They're precise. They are persistent. They are re-usable. You can use these persistent in and out points to do 3 point editing all day long. You can used the IN - and/or you can use the OUT - and you can do a 3 point edit from an IN or an OUT on your primary storyline using either a standard insert or even a back timed insert.
I'm sure you don't believe me - so here's a Steve Martin lesson show you how.
I'm so tired of people who keep coming here and trying to tell me that I can't do stuff I do all day long simply because it doesn't work right in the timeline in EXACTLY the way they are used to it working and they simply can't break out of their pre-conceptions long enough to look at whether the new way might actually be valuable if they can just stop being so intransigently stuck on how they think the want it to work. (Yeah, yeah, who am I to tell you how to edit - I get it. But the reality is that YOU are the one trying to edit with X and having trouble. I'm not.. And in your frustration, you're the one coming here in the public square to tell us you "can't" do something (in this case, "preserve in and out points") that is pure BS.
If the software keeps in and out points - it keeps in and out points. If you can't figure out how to make it work for an edit, and I can - it's on YOU. Not on the software. All that means is that X doesn't work the way YOU think it should. You see that as the programs failure. I see it as yours.
It works in X the way it works in X.
If you are not adaptable enough to use the software it the way the software is structured, it's NOT the software's fault.
It's your fault.
That my sound harsh and dismissive and even downright rude, but I'm merely matching rude with rude based on your not very subtle attempts to besmirch me as an individual that appear directly above this post.
I think you don't like X because you just can't figure out how it actually works - and that's making you frustrated.
I understand that. After 10 months, I'm still learning it. So I know it's not easy.
The difference between us is that I know enough about how it works to understand whether or not it actually does something objectively confirmable like "save in and out points" - and you got stuck when you thought it didn't do it because it simply asks you to do it in a different operating part of the software that will be more powerful as you learn how to work with the new design.
Simple as that.
"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor
