Re: Editing scenario

[Walter Soyka] "I guess I don't see the problem there, at least with respect to FCP7. You could only have one "favorite" per clip in FCP7 anyway, since you could only have one set of markers."

I guess this is true but implementing favorites as a tool for maintaining persistent I or O means that you effectively throw away the other benefits of having favorites in the first place - because now they can only be used for trying to retain IO rather than for their opresumably original purpose.

[Walter Soyka] "Do you have another use for single, unmatched I/OPs besides three-point editing (which isn't bothered by the extraneous end point that you didn't pick)?"

Absolutely. As Oliver has pointed out (and I think I have too) on more than one occasion, there are editors who use I and O as temporary markers all the time in pretty much every edit situation of the day. (The whole three point editing digression was not relevant to this discussion at all.)

Markers could be used instead but I'm not sure they would be as handy. A persistent I or a persistent O is half way to being an edit decision that you can use, whereas a marker isn't and would involve extra steps.

[Walter Soyka] "
A big -- and seemingly inexplicable -- limitation. I'd love to see that addressed."

One of the many things that needs work!

Simon Ubsdell
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