Re: With FCPX magnetic timeline,the non-linear is linear again!

Thanks Chris. That's the kind of thing of functionality that originally appealed to me in the Supermeet Demo, and the visual clutter issue you mention is important when I teach my video class to high school students. The KISS rule "keep it simple stupid" really applies there. If you throw too many layers, options, waveforms, keyframes and such at them too quickly, it can become soup. Which is frustrating to them because the kids are taking other art courses like photography and drawing, painting etc. The idea of a heads-up display of info superimposed over all the visual work they are doing can be depressing to some; it's so distracting from the visceral FEEL of the visual arts.

Doug D