With this sort of file synchronization, tools like the Magnetic Timeline gain true power to change the way you edit, making the process more creative and less mechanical.

The elimination of a track-based timeline in FCP X is no longer an issue for the editor when the elemental pieces are locked together as a single group. Moving each element no longer risks a loss of media or a clip overwrite rippling down the edits in your timeline.

Until now, keyword searching was limited to the object level, meaning that if you associated a keyword with a clip, that keyword would always bring you the entire piece of media. Nothing in Final Cut Pro X shows me the underlying power of its new data processing capabilities better than the new Range Based Keywords feature.

In FCP X, keywords have no restrictions, and a selection of a portion of one or more clips can now be defined with a keyword, and displayed as a single new clip in the Event Library. It no longer matters whether or not the selection encompasses the entire media chunk.

With FCP X, any or all parts of a grouping of multiple clips, even if they're different media types and stored on separate volumes, are treated as one single new piece of media in the Event Library.