Re: Editing scenario

[Chris Harlan] "I think, for me, the thing of it is that when I have any kind of collision its usually because I have two things that are fighting for a space that only one of them belongs in. So, one of them has to go anyway. I just really don't understand the fracas over clip collision at all."

Clip collision is only half of the benefit of the magnetic timeline. The other half is simplified selection.

With a traditional timeline, you have to make a complicated selection based on implied clip relationships when you want to make an edit around that point in time. With the magnetic timeline, because those clip relationships are explicitly defined, so making an edit around the parent automatically deals with the children correctly.


[Chris Harlan] "Everything still needs to healed a bit, doesn't it?"

Sure, but FCPX preserves all the original durations for you to massage, whereas FCP7 will clobber some of them in collision.

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