I was trying to describe this to someone recently - the demise of the dual screen paradigm - and in a way, it's not that unusual. It may SOUND revolutionary and crazy, but most edit suites already employee this, at least at the "client monitor" level, right?
The client - or editor, on his one big, expensive "TV monitor" - sees the source OR the sequence displayed in a single monitor. As an on-line linear editor, this is certainly what I was used to before Avid. You saw your source or your sequence in one big monitor. You may have had some ancillary monitors to display multiple sources or your record tape at all times, but your MAIN monitoring was all done in a single monitor.
And of course, probably the model for this rumor is iMovie, which utilizes a browser, a "sequence" and a single monitor for viewing both source and sequence.
I'd never used iMovie much, and someone was just saying that they could never use it professionally because of the lack of trim functionality, but I just played around with it a little bit more over the weekend because I'm going to teach a "film camp" at my church for high school kids and iMovie is the cheapest way of getting a half-dozen edit suites up and running and "trained up" (we already have the Macs). Anyway, I discovered "Precision Editing" on each of the transitions in iMovie and that interface, though limited in many professional ways, is actually very intuitive and provides as much fine control as you could possibly want. I'd always tried to trim with the more "gross" controls in the timeline, because I thought that that's all there was, but the precision editor mode is very nice, actually.
So, some of these iMovie concepts - or other concepts outside the "norms" of Avid and FCP - could provide some real power and speed and accuracy if people were willing to embrace a new way of doing things. Judging from the reaction to "SmartTools" that day may not be here, at least for Avid editors. (I'm not saying the new TOOLS are bad, just that getting "buy-in" from the users is tough and must be discouraging to the Avid employees that spent time developing them.
Steve Hullfish
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On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:22 AM, oliverpetersvidy wrote:
> One of the ideas being discussed in the FCP8 rumor mill is a re-imagining of the UI. Possibly the loss of the dual-screen paradigm. That reminded me of a past blog post about using custom screen layouts to your advantage. MC allows that (sort of) with Toolsets, but the current FCP is a bit more freeform. In any case, here were my thoughts at the time - using layouts other than the typical viewer/canvas/timeline arrangement.
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