Re: Help...stuck in Insert/Ripple delete Mode

[Kevin Monahan] "What in the world are you talking about? Advisors to Apple? Apple is Apple. Ain't no one telling them how to run their business."

So you are saying that Apple do not have beta testers?
Are Apple so clever they know all about video editing requirements?
Is it that some of us 'seasoned' editors know jack about what video editing is? Man you DO have your head in a bag!

[Kevin Monahan] "The Timeline must shift if you insert clips into it. That's a basic tenet of editing."

REALLY? Where did you learn that from? Have I missed something in my 35+ years of editing? Maybe you mispronounced the sentence or something - can you clarify?


[Kevin Monahan] "If you don't want your clips to "shift", then don't add clips to the timeline. If you need to replace a clip, ensure that it is the same duration."

Maybe I should get you to do my editing as I don't know any other way of adding clips to a timeline without ummm... 'adding' them?

So Kevin, are you an editor and if so have you ever done 'on line conform'? In recent years so called 'producers' layout a roughcut on a timeline like a storyboard and then call it an 'off line'. Then us poor conform editors have to turn a pigs ear into a purse... and we have to do that by cleaning up the mess they left us with. What we want to retain is the general flow dictated to us by the producers; not have FCP go 'my way or the highway'.
As I said earlier as BAD as Adobe Premiere is, it certainly doesn't go shifting your timeline clips around unnecessarily. And I gotta say I was TOTALLY SHOCKED when FCP moved ALL the 'after' clips when I change the speed of a single clip! Sure there are people here who say its a good thing but they must be editing on the planet Mars. I would say I need that functionality once in a thousand speed changes and thats being conservative. Why not have it as an option or something. All in all I give FCP 40/100 for functionality and 98/100 for stability as compared to AP's 75/100 for functionality and 12/100 for stability.
Where am I going with this? Well these software engineers that write this stuff have either gotta start using it as a 'real world' user or get a better range of beta testers and advisors; yep, there's that word again. I could go on but I don't tend to argue too much with people who have tunnel vision.

Baz
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What would I do without the 'UNDO' button!!!!