Walter Murch and FCPX

I just want to point out something that I noticed the other day while watching a video with Walter Murch.





See that wall there with all those clips on it? That's how he organizes his footage. It's also the same way that FCPX organizes footage. Seems like the new design in FCPX was somewhat based on his workflow...

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But that is nothing new and it is not only Walter Murchs way, I have seen this since day one in a Editing facility plus could be a storyboard of a scene.

I remember reading about his method. He selects representative frames from each scene and puts it on his wall. I think this would be more like legacy FCP, where you can select your own thumbnail for each clip in your bin.

You cannot select a thumbnail in FCX.

However, I also remember his description of running a reel of film through a flatbed, and appreciating the visual feedback he got from the lights and colors he saw skimming through the footage.

I think he'd appreciate the visual feedback you get from the filmstrip. It's sort of like holding a strip of film up to a light table, except we can compress and expand the time to see as much or as little detail as we'd like.

I'm learning to love the filmstrip view, especially since I can see footage from multiple clips all laid out for me.