Am 21.11.2011 01:54, schrieb Eli Billauer:
> ....But the point is that this is an operation that depends only on
> information which is output to the EDL file, so there's no question about
> the feasibility.
Maybe you /should/ first question the *usefulness* and the *correctness*.
A lot of things are "feasible" and can be done somehow with the informations
available. But for professional use, the key point is if a proposed feature
(a) helps achieving a real world task
(b) doesn't create additional liabilities
(c) doesn't misbehave and destroy other work.
Unfortunately, your proposed feature fails on these criteria.
And you did already mention yourself why this is the case:
> This simplistic flow doesn't say what happens if there's more than one video
> track found in (2), or even more complicated, if there are two segments of
> the same asset in the video track, both overlapping the audio segment (which
> is quite common, e.g. sound bridge).
Plus add to that the fact that material isn't organised in *tracks*,
but in *clips*. Plus add to that the fact, that usually you have a mix
of *multiple* video tracks and *several* audio tracks. Plus add to this
the fact that the majority of the work for syncing audio goes into
syncing externally captured sound tracks, like spot mikes, music
recording, noise samples from sound libraries.
OK, so to conclude....
(a) it doesn't address quite common tasks, just "fixes" one special corner case
(b) which, instead of helping a professional user, now creates the liability
to check *which* things got fixed and *which* ones weren't --> more work
(c) will *destroy* any non-trivial use of the sound material and
erroneously move sound clips to wrong positions, whenever the editor
used either video or sound material from one capture to suit another
purpose within the same mix (e.g. ambiance noise, image inserts
etc etc etc)
Most editing suites I'm aware off thus take another approach: they represent
a "link" between individual clip objects and when one clip object is moved,
they move the linked-to other objects alongside. And, usually I'd expect
an option to break that link explicitly, and to re-establish a new link
between previously unrelated material. At least, I'd expect that from
an application claiming to be "professional"
Cheers
Hermann V
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