![]() ![]() Avid is now a car that sometimes turns right when you steer to the left, sometimes accellerates when you hit the brakes. That is what made Avid a success, and that is what has been abandoned in this 5.0 release. It is absolutely KEY that the user-interface is predictable. But especially with the Smart Tools, the Avid user-interface has become so unpredictable that I spend probably 10% of my work-day cleaning up after Avid, resetting tools. I need to know what will happen when I click a button or push a key. I have bought QuicKeys in order to remove a lot of these so-called features, so that when I Paste in the timeline, I actually run a macro that resets the mode so that I ALWAYS, ALWAYS get an Insert. This is supposedly based on some context, but since you're mainly thinking about your next step and not your last, you really don't know which mode you're in. I no longer know if I'm in Insert or Overwrite, I do Copy/Paste all the time, and now it's completely random and a total surprise if it will result in an overwrite or an insert. Now you have made the IMO highly misguided choice of adopting everything that makes FCP an unstable user-interface. You always knew whether you were in Insert, Overwrite, Snap, Trim, this or that, and it was FULLY PREDICTABLE what would happen when you pressed a button. The beauty of Avid for all eternity and until you released this 5.0 version, was that you always knew in ABSOLUTE TERMS where the user-interface was at. Am I in insert mode? Darn, I was in overwrite, did I ruin anything? This results in the following thinking when you use the software: Am I in snap mode? Oh, no I'm not, let me toggle it, no wait I already was, now I disabled it, let me enable it again. Add to that that all modes are *toggles*, and it becomes completely impossible to ever truly *feel* where the user-interface is. Having just spent a year in hell working on an FCP show, the primary flaw with FCP as I see it is overload of modes. I'd like to offer a GUI-theory to why the Smart Tool, and all the context-sensitiveness is bad: ![]() I'm also incredibly frustrated with the Smart Tool, and would like to be able to disable it permanently. ![]()
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