Splice Now

I don’t know about you, but I’m always wishing that I could see clip comments in frame view bins. I make a lot of sequences (and sub-sequences of different versions and alternates) and even though you can create clip names of any length, sometimes it’s helpful to make longer notes. Yes, I know I can see comments in text view, but I arrange sequences in a visual grid where position means something and I don’t want to switch views to see comments. I’d like to see a second line of text under a clip, or have the comment pop open if I pause my cursor over a clip.

By the same token, I’d love to have a comment column for bins. It’s galling enough that I can’t make a bin name that’s longer than 27 characters, even though the OS no longer has a problem with this, but I’d like more. A description of what the bin contains and why I might want to open it, visible in the project window, would be very helpful. A typical project for me lasts six to twelve months and produces hundreds of bins. In the Avid I can’t search across bins, so getting some help figuring out what a bin contains would be welcome.

These two features seem pretty simple to me and I venture that they’d appeal to a lot of people. For my money, they’d be a lot more desirable than some other features that would take a lot more effort to create.

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