Re: Editing scenario

This brings up a BIG feature request for me that would help a lot in these scenarios. I just helped my wife cut a 4 min. wedding sizzle for her best friend and the lack of track locks drove me nuts. I'm used to not having track locks since normally I would use Sony Vegas for these types of cuts - but with Vegas I can right-click on any clip - audio, video, still and select "LOCK". This will lock the media in place until i unlock it. I can also highlight a group of clips and LOCK them or even GROUP them so they stay together.

The LOCK and GROUP features would be awesome to have in FCPX and ease the pain of not having actual tracks. For instance once you have your music edited you can then LOCK it in place and cut away with or without the magnetic timeline - this makes it easy to cut to music similar to locking a track in FCP7. Actually the GROUP/UNGROUP feature is now just a right-click away in Premiere CS6 - something Vegas has had for over a decade...

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California