Re: Editing scenario

[Jeremy Garchow] "I see what you're saying, but if you need the music to stay at 1:30, why not just put it in the primary @ 1:30?
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I'm speaking to the FCP7 model that so many editors are used to, where various audio elements go below a Video Track 1 and stay there unless you want to move them.

Why would I want to put a simple music track that supports my story on the Primary? It's just another audio effect in that regard. In so many instances film isn't being cut to the music track but the music cues begin and end at certain fixed points relative to the story (or for the full bed in the instance of TV spots) and you want it t stay there for all the reasons you want anything to stay in place.

And then there are the times when you want things to travel together which X does very well.
But it doesn't do both, without unnecessary manipulation. But it could and, obviously in the opinion of many editors, should.