That's not really what I am talking about. I know you can do "trimming" or whatever they are calling it now. However, it is done in an entirely different interface which makes it much more difficult to sync/cut than it would in a timeline. Waveforms below the actual video is the best/easiest way to do this.
If we're playing lawyerball I suppose I have to give there. Although I would liken it to being forced to use a stick and some twigs to start a fire when I used to have a perfectly good flamethrower for the same task. It can be done, but it's so inefficient that most people probably won't bother.
It was fast and easy, now it's tedious and inefficient. That's the problem. All these extra steps and somehow it's heralded as easier. Selecting video in '08 is certainly easier. Audio, not so much.
That's for one global edit to any volume track. Wash, rinse, repeat the steps I listed for additional changes. So if you have a stretch of 10 clips over 10 seconds it's 2 clicks in '06 and 40 clicks in '08 (unless there is a select all that I have missed, and I sure hope that's the case). How is that easy?
I generally like it too. There are just some questionable design choices that I hope are remedied in point releases or something like an "iMovie Pro/Director's Cut". FCE doesn't fit this purpose and it's laughable that people are so quick to suggest that it does.
