AlaskanNomadProductions wrote:
And Bill and Kevin, while I can see where you're coming from and I appreciate it, please remember that there was no hover scrub or a similarly functioning "Icon View" in FCP 7.
Well, sort of. You could scrub icons in FCP with the Hand tool. You could not set In and Out points, nor play JKL. You could only set a new poster frame. And man were those icons tiny! Another thing users complained about that never got improved in FCP.
AlaskanNomadProductions wrote:
some obvious functionality seemed to be missing which is why I made the post. Happily in this case, there was a solution. Unfortunately, that's not always how things work out.
Regarding "obvious functionality," sometimes a feature is created, but all of its functionality might not get implemented for that version. Engineers run out of time sometimes. Time is their chief enemy! For example, perhaps they did plan on sortable icons, but did not have enough time to finish the code, test it for quality, and stamp out bugs. This is the nature of software creation.
AlaskanNomadProductions wrote:
But that doesn't change the fact that there are some things that seem very obvious to me and a number of other editors (even some who have been using Premiere for years) and we're all equally baffled that these features don't exist. Some of these posts are years old, with slews of people claiming they're "Leaving this post right now to file a feature request". And here it is years later and we're still posting about the same thing.
I'm right there with you. There are many things I wish I could change. Feature requests that have been around for awhile often don't get fixed for versions upon versions. However, that is the case with all NLEs. There are some very basic features many NLEs have that never made it into Final Cut Pro going into version 7, for example. I know this because I worked at Apple on Final Cut Studio 1 and 3. Stuff people complained about broken items and new features that simply never made the cut. All software companies have to deal with this, unfortunately.
Your feature requests do get read, sorted and accounted for. Because they aren't implemented is all about priority and resources. Chin up, though. Things are going to be very good in upcoming versions, including some of the things that are bothering you, so stay tuned.