Re: Editing scenario

[Jeremy Garchow] "I guess I need to ask you. How do use i or o separately? Is it not to do a three point edit?"

Well, there are two parts to this answer.

One is that I often use I OR O as very temporary placeholders, as I'm sure a lot of editors do. I don't want to have to use a favorite for this. Chiefly because using favorites for something so fleeting means continually having to Unfavorite (this gets very necessary when you are trying out different source edit points in the same clip which must be pretty common and certainly is in my experience) - and to worry about overwriting existing favorites which will always happen if I'm only interested in EITHER the I OR the O because the untended I or O will always default to either the beginning or the end of the clip.

The second point about three point editing in FCPX is that (unless it's something I've been overlooking all this time) you can't backtime a three point edit using only and I or an O in the Browser. (You can of course do this if you set a range in the Browser and use Shift/Edit Function, but that's different.)

The point is that in FCPX every selection MUST be a range whether you like it or not. And a lot of the time I don't actually want a range. I only want an I OR an O.

Simon Ubsdell
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