Re: Editing scenario

While I respect Jim's faux tracks, I wouldn't use them, but that's just me.

I think it breaks X's strengths, and breaks them good. No offense, Jim. Keep fighting the good fight.

I know you David, and Walter, and Aindreas have major issues with X's timeline. I have a few.

Time is not one of my concerns.

[David Lawrence] "Think of it this way - one of the great new features in PPCS6 is format agnostic audio tracks. Standard audio tracks happily let you mix whatever audio format you want on the same track."

Mm, ok? So a stereo track can go on a mono track and vice versa, along with surround. Have you exported a multichannel QuickTime yet? How'd it go?

[David Lawrence] "Apple could raise the bar even further with media agnostic tracks (or storylines). Create a new track container and put whatever you want inside. How cool would that be? I'd definitely want to check something like that out.
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How can you not do this with a secondary already, or a compound? You can zip tie whatever you want together.

[David Lawrence] "Multiple primaries seem like the easiest way to accomplish this within the existing data model."

No, it's just the most familiar. If you're going to have multiple primaries, just use tracks, really. The convention is already built, no reason to add tracks back to a track system.

Keep trackless trackless, and build on the data control. Bring more power to Roles. Bring better implemented multichannel audio. Bring a click sortable audio visualization system. Bring Better XML control and field exporting/importing. Bring more native format support, but keep the current optimization system. Bring a few more controls like clip swap, timeline ins/outs that work better, secondary storyline targeting system so editing works in secondaries just like the primary. Basically, start to finish the ideas of the trackless timeline instead of trying to make more tracks. And of course, fix any stability issues.

I will also say this, I don't think it's the magnetism that bothers everyone, it's the connections.