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

[Oliver Peters] "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.
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Isn't this precisely what Auditions is built to enable? Build P1 with C1 and C2 in Auditions - do the same with P2. Arrange and re-arrange magnetically as you like, and pick your Cutaway. What's the problem?

[Oliver Peters] "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.
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Not sure I'm understanding this second point either Re-trimming the clips in the precision editor to new lengths seems like all you'd need to do - and magnetism keeps the connected clip relationships intact globally.

I must not be understanding what you're trying to do that X makes unnecessarily difficult.

(But maybe that says more about my lack of understanding of your issues than anything else! ; )

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