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

On Jun 5, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

>
> "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.

What timeline view settings are you looking for?
>
>
> "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.

Yes, video track soloing

> 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.

The trouble is, when you're designing software, you often have no idea
what will be needed in 10 years time. :) Only then do you discover
that the foundations built a decade earlier aren't really suitable for
some modern function. Then it's an engineering/managerial decision as
to whether or not you demolish and start over (which Adobe did with
PPro) or progressively rewrite (as Avid have been doing with MC) or
build new stuff in the expectation that the older Cocoa code will be
running in 64 bit only to discover a year later that it won't.

And sometimes engineers are lazy :) (That's not a swipe at any current
engineering team that I know, but corner me after a few drinks in
private and I'll spill!) ;)

Philip

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