Re: [Avid-L2] list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?

"Check. FCP has workspace layouts that can be keyboard assigned. It

doesn't have users though."
I know they have window layouts that are keyboard assignable, but do they recall timeline views as well, like workspaces do? Accessing the timeline view is huge.

"Soloing has been supported in FCP since at least version 4."

Video track soloing? Sorry I wasn't clear, but that's what I meant. I use audio track soloing all the time,
and have for years. And I would want this to be on a track, not individually selected segment, basis. I suppose
you could use the track forward select tool, and then use solo selected, but I dislike selecting entire tracks. It's
just to easy to do something you don't want when all that stuff is selected.
Also, I wouldn't really want FCP to be a "clone" of MC; I would settle for it being just a tad more practical.
And you're right, as a non-programmer, I find it really hard to imagine why it has taken ten years to get functional
markers, especially now that I've seen all the new functionality in the past two versions of MC.
In the end, if you start by designing sensible software that actually works, perhaps you don't have quite so much
clean up to do in the long term.

Best,
Shirley

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Hodgetts <philip@intelligentassistance.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 3:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?

On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

> To your list I would add:

>

> 1) The Avid trim tools, including the four frame display in slip/

> slide, JKL slip/slid, trimming on the fly, isolating sides easily

> with a key command (i.e., playing up the cut and stopping, or

> playing from the cut forward), being able to SEE when you trim shots

> on different tracks (imagine that!)

> 2) Workspaces!

Check. FCP has workspace layouts that can be keyboard assigned. It

doesn't have users though.

> 3) Phantom marks, but also the ability just to align to the fourth

> mark of a three mark edit by using a "go to in/out" key, even when

> phantom marks are not enabled, as in MC

> 4) Avid's monitoring flexibility. Yes, I know you can turn of

> playback for individual clips in FCP, but this is pain in the ass.

> And what about soloing?

Soloing has been supported in FCP since at least version 4.

> 5) Selective sync locking of tracks, without constantly having to

> work around this unbelievably stupid, Draconinan, PITA global sync

> lock that FCP stuffs down your gagging throat whether you like it or

> not.

> 7) Track auto patching that actually works.

> 8) Locators that actually work, including MC's powerful locator

> window. The only locators you can actually see in FCP without double

> clicking to open up segments are timeline locators, but they don't

> stay in sync, so they're absolutely useless. I've heard this has

> changed in 7, but come on, why did it take ten years?

Because software takes work and changes are frequently very difficult.

Usually way more so than non-programmers ever imagine.

> 10) One version of any given clip extant in the NLE. Let's say I

> have a clip which I've edited from in a few places, and later when I

> have time, I go back and place a bunch of markers. When I match back

> to that clip from one of the early, pre-markers timeline instances

> of that clip, it takes me back to some forever young version of that

> media that doesn't show all the markers I have since painstakingly

> added.

Largely depends on what you match back to FCP 7 got additional features.

>

> I'm sure there's more, but that's all I can think of right now. BTW,

> this is cathartic of course (a good FCP rant always is), but what's

> the use? Will anyone at Apple ever see our comments? And do they

> even care? Most of their user base is kids who don't have any basis

> of comparison. Why should they care about what a 30 year veteran

> thinks?

There's zero value making FCP a clone of MC (and vice versa) as there

is already MC and FCP, so that's why you're not getting heard :)

Philip

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