Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Chris Harlan] "Give me something concrete. I bet you can't find it.
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When I use X on my laptop - every single edit decision I've made previously in my event brewer - no matter which events or projects those were created for - can be instantly available to every single project I choose to create from that point on - with all my pre-edit decisions as to trimming, color correction and key wording intact.

That capability didn't exist in Legacy that I ever uncovered.

The X approach is infinitely more flexible and clearly superior in my view.

And when you're out on the road with Legacy, how exactly do you handle Capture Scratch management? I don't recall a way to have a dozen projects with a dozen capture scratches associated with those projects live simultaneously - the default state of X with multiple Events available along side multiple projects as the default.

I can be editing away on one Project, realize I need footage from another project, or another event, mount a drive, and edit the new material into my timeline in seconds. No launching prior projects, no shut down and re-launching FCP legacy edits.

In fact, in Legacy I couldn't even SEE the contents of a timeline when I had another one launched! I could open an exported MOVIE - but that give me NO reference to the original timeline since movies and their parent timelines were always cut off from each other. I remember spending lots to time looking for clips by opening and closing FCP-Legacy projects until I could find the one that had the clip I was looking for if I couldn't remember the ID tag I'd used and wanted a visual reference.

Legacy had no visual reference other than shuffling through bins and scanning thumbnails for the open project ONLY.

Former projets were just "dumb icons" on the desktop. Unless you create and maintain some kind of clip database outside the program, each edit defaulted to a "closed book" state.

In X, all your prior work can be open and available for visual search with a few clicks - all from within the live app.

I could go on, but those are a few of the important things off the top of my head.

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