[Craig Seeman] "I've been trying to explain to people how AV Foundation impacted the fundamental changes in FCPX GUI/paradigm but couldn't have said it as elegantly as you. Trying to model FCPX with tracks would have been an awkward and technology defeating shoehorn."
Craig, I'm still not sure I follow here -- what is it in AV Foundation that suggests a
required magnetic timeline to you?
You have been so adamant about this that I've dug through the AV Foundation documentation a bit to try to understand this better. I suspect you're looking at
AVMutableComposition [link], which has the very magnetic-timeline-like features of being able to ripple-add and ripple-delete time ranges -- but there's also the lower-level
AVAsset [link] and
AVComposition [link] classes, in which tracks exist in specific time ranges almost exactly as they do in QuickTime.
In any case, aren't these are just the frameworks that the applications use to read and write the media? Why would they necessarily dictate an application's own internal data model for media?
What am I missing?
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