Re: Thank you Apple - and don't change course. Please

I'm in the camp that likes most of what FCP X does EXCEPT the editing. The magnetic, trackless timeline causes more juggling inside the timeline than any other NLE I know. This is especially true when a client is sitting over your shoulder. Here are but two small examples:

1. Two primary storyline clips, each with a connected clip attached. P1 with C1, P2 with C2. Now, swap the P1 and P2 clips with each other WITHOUT swapping the order of the connected clips. So P2 with C1 and P1 with C2. This would require 1 keystroke with a modifier in most NLEs. It takes 3 or 4 with X and the exact locations of where C1 and C2 end up are very imprecise.

2. When you have a nice, tighly organized timeline and the client asks you to "open it all up a bit", letting it be longer. This is reasonably easy with asymmetrical trimming in most NLEs. In X you end up adjusting primary storyline clips, often have to change connecting points and adjust each and every connecting clip.

- Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com