Alex4d on software from the future
By S Simmons. Filed in Blogs and links, Final Cut Pro, software from the future |
We haven’t had a software from the future post in a while but Alex over at alex4d has a great one called Final Cut feature idea: Moving markers. And oh what a good idea it is. In fact it’s almost unfathomable that any editing application would be written without the ability to easily move markers. Premiere Pro CS4 can move markers in an edit timeline but just a click and drag. Final Cut Pro markers actually can be moved too but it require opening the Edit Marker window and typing in a new sequence timecode. Not near as elegant as a click and drag. I can’t imagine that it would be that hard to add that ability to easily move markers but I don’t program software so maybe it is. Check out Alex’s full post on the idea and let’s hope that it comes along in the next version of Final Cut Pro, whenever that may be.
Friday, February 27th 2009 at 1:32 pm
You can actually reposition them without going into the dialog…. kinda.
Just move the playhead beyond the marker in question and go to Mark > Markers > Reposition. This will move the marker to the position of the playhead. The downside is that it will only move it forward, not backward. And if you want to move it a large distance and there’s another marker in the middle, it will move the nearest marker and not the one you had in mind.
So yeah, pretty basic functionality, but it’s a useful shortcut in some instances.
Saturday, February 28th 2009 at 12:27 am
I can’t think now – can you move markers easily in Avid? I probably don’t use them as much as some editors, so I can’t recall ever feeling the need to.
Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 6:49 am
Absolutly. Just Alt + Click and drag the locator in the Composer window possition bar.
Monday, March 2nd 2009 at 1:55 am
According to a Larry Jordan seminar I attended recently, this is because Final Cut is written in Carbon, which doesn’t support this type of thing (easily). He thinks FCP is currently being entirely re-written in Cocoa for the new Snow Leopard OS (which won’t support Carbon) and when this new version emerges it will have this type of functionality (that can be found in Soundtrack).
Interesting!