Re: Editing scenario

[Jules bowman] "Clip collision, as described above, is something that makes sense and something I tout of when the whole thing was released, but instead they took a good idea and made it into something that isn't usable for many many editors, or something that many many editors don't want to use because of its limitations and the need for workarounds. The fact there are all these discussions about primary this, secondary that, connected the other when none of these issues ev existed for the.... Woah, magnetic timeline.... Makes a pretty good case for it being folly.

I bet you there could have been tracks and clip collision that made things move around like a magnetic timeline (though do magnets move like that?) so you'd have had a useful tool for the very few times you did have that clip collision issue, you'd be able to lob clips at the timeline and other clips would make way for them, which would be great, but you'd have tracks and all the advantages that come with them.
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Fixed track options would have certainly helped the software gain wider acceptance and I do understand why some people aren't comfortable with trackless.

I still wouldn't be surprised if tracks or something similar make an appearance in FCPX in the future though.

Steve Connor
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