Re: Editing scenario - Why PIOPs might not be easy

[Jeremy Garchow] "There is today, an I think that's Philip H's point. Everything is associated to that clip. It's how it works, at least for now. Favorites are simply a "sort" or an alternate display of data assigned to that clip. "

But -- the interface can present those alternate displays of data as if they WERE clips, even though it may not represent them as clips internally. This can create a problem any time you might want to consider a clip as an instance of a specific range of content (from a UX perspective), as we see here.

Although your "everything is associated to that clip" line may explain why favorites can't overlap. You'd have to show either a partial range (which would be false and misleading), you'd have to show the entire range (which would erroneously extend the current favorite), you'd have to not show the range at all (which breaks the association back to the clip), or you'd have to come up with a new way to indicate that the other range is incomplete (which could be too confusing or complicated).


[Jeremy Garchow] "An in/out range is no different. So, if X could remember piops on every single instance of one clip, in order to keep track of all this info on the near infinite combinations of data "sorts", it seems that FCPX would have to create some sort of io category, and then constantly track all those changes and update them. Maybe that sort of thing is possible, but is it really necessary?"

Is it necessary? Of course not. It's a feature request. Developers ignore them all the time.

My version of the question is this: is the app better or worse without PIOPs? If users really want them, will it hurt the application to include them? Was it a good idea to design the app so it couldn't have them in the first place?

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