Re: Final Cut Pro 7 wishlist

[Paul Dickin] "XML data structures seem to me to be sort of a 'linear' system, and that's fine for the metadata in a linear entity, like a movie file.
It should be embeded in the media assets, fully transportable.

But what an NLE suite's Project File structure should be is non-linear - obviously!! ;-)
A robust non-linear random access database structure."

Paul,

Believe me, I am no expert on this stuff, nor do I play one on TV, but it occurs to me that we have reached levels at which processing power and massive RAM can easily handle the linearity of metadata, such as XML, because it's comprised of a miniscule amount of data that can remain loaded in memory at all times. Isn't that one of beauties of 64-bit and multi-threading?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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