FCP Feature Wish List – Someone else’s.
Interesting list of requests for FCP features found here. Let me break it down with my opinion on it. Why? Because absolutely nobody cares what I think about it, and that’s what blogs are for.
- Timeline Scrolls behind Playhead — YES!!!
- Not sure what they meant by this.
- GUI for audio plugins — YES!!!
- Rock solid roundtripping? Not having any problems.
- Native editing of AVCHD & h.264 — No thank you. Don’t want it.
- Select all render types in sequence menu — meh.
- Scratch disk settings stay with project file? — I used to care. Now I let FCP organize for me.
- FW of HDV to LT & Proxy — makes sense, that’s what HDV is, really.
- Larger graphic file handling — okay, but it’s not that big of a deal.
- Scrolling timeline — well, yeah, but is it that important you mention it twice?
- Finder & Browser live linked? — don’t really need that, but okay
- Useful error messages? — Great request
- Consistent item location from menu to menu? — I’m lucky, I use the same settings for all my projects. Set it and forget it. Don’t let clients choose format, I know more about it.
- Make use of all processors — Would be nice, wouldn’t it?
- Audio timeline waveform improvements — Don’t really care. I use audio software for real audio work.
- One menu for all custom window & key layouts, etc. — I’m the only user, but I can see the advantage this would bring.
- Save fave effects outside project file — okay.
- Rename “Compressor Limiter” to Compressor. — whatever. Are you repeatedly fooled by the misnomer?
- Reveal Bruce button — Really don’t care about Bruce.

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