> And as to Apple listening, the only way I can think of
> this is to compare them to your old, mostly deaf aunt.
The fact that they are secretive doesn't mean they don't listen.
> How else to explain a ten year wait for this most rudimentary of features?
The same way I explain Avid being dragged kicking and screaming to the party.
> As to the value added part, perhaps I should have
> been clearer. I meant value added to my editing process.
With all due respect, you are fixating on your own, personal workflow, without extending that to what other editors might feel is useful. You asked for some points and I answered. I'm neither advocating nor criticizing. Quite frankly it's not the most important feature for me one way or the other.
>but I'm pretty sure they're downstream of my work.
Again, YOUR work. Not everyone's. I happen to be extensively involved in what happens with my projects after I cut them, including interaction with the sound editors/mixers/composers. I'm often responsible for the compression of the delivery files for my projects.
> Master clip markers showing up in the bin? Whoohoo!
> Big deal. The Avid locator window does all of this and more.
Actually. Not even close. Can you open an Avid bin and see all the locator points, thumbnails and text directly associated with the clip WITHOUT using the locator window?
> Assistants adding markers to QT files? Maybe. I can't recall the
> last time I needed an assistant to do that for me.
Not assistants. Producers, story editors, etc.
> they can be doing this in MC easily enough with
> networked Unity media/projects and a copy of MC
> running in a cubicle someplace, no third party app necessary.
At considerably greater expense.
> Once again, there's no unique FCP value here.
I'm afraid you are turning this into what Steve had hoped it wouldn't be, which is an FCP/Avid debate. You asked for an answer and I gave you that. I can't help it if that isn't suitable for your workflow. It is for plenty of others.
As far as 3rd party apps are concerned, it's integral to FCP and is one of the real strengths of the FCP ecosystem. Apple generally takes an 80/20 approach to software. 80% of the features that fill the needs of 80%-90% of the users. Leave the 20% niche features to 3rd party developers, like Bouke, Philip, Martin and others.
Avid takes a different approach. Both valid ways of doing things. That's how we get some innovative, but niche features, like ScriptSync, Stereo3D, etc. Contrast that to the FCP world, where other developers come up with several Stereo3D plug-ins and GET does a self-contained phonetic app, which may ultimately work for several NLEs.
- Oliver
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