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

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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

Come on Oliver. You of all people know that MC allows me to ripple or not ripple, since I can add markers to any media track. One place I work has a convention of creating a dedicated locator track. Since MC allows me to decide which tracks stay in sync with one another, I can decide to have this track ripple or not. I can also add locators to individual media tracks as in FCP, but these locators I can actually see in the timeline, unlike the FCP ones, which require me to double click on the segment to open it in the Viewer. Moreover, MC gives me all the wonderful functionality of the locator window, which allows me to sort by user, locator color, track, timecode, or comment. Excuse me, where does FCP do that?

Sorry, I just can't see how anyone could advocate for the FCP model when it comes to this feature. In my view, sensible software is the software that gives you options, and MC just has many more.

Shirley

-----Original Message-----
From: oliverpetersvidy <oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 3:59 pm
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?

> Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

> 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.

I think you are starting from the position that one approach is right and the

other wrong. They are merely different approaches. For example, what if you

DON'T want sequence markers to stay locked to a clip on the timeline, but rather

to a point in absolute time?

- Oliver

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