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The future of the editing interface

Posted May 14th, 2012 / By Matthew Carlin in Free Stuff, Global Discussion, Software

I recently discovered a tool called Better Touch Tool which allows you to set what multi touch gestures do on your trackpad, magic trackpad or magic mouse in your mac applications, for example in Final Cut Pro X. I got playing around with this, using pinching to zoom in and out and various multi touch gestures to try different keyboard shortcuts.

Better Touch Tool

Along with this app and seeing apps like iMovie on the iPad got me thinking about what the future of editing will be. In 10 years will we still be using the old keyboard and mouse or will we be fully touch based, chopping clips with a gesture, trimming by pinching and exporting by grabbing our timeline and pulling it off the screen?

The layout of the traditional editing application has even been challenged recently by Final Cut Pro X, changing the traditional track layout to a single main storyline, some say this works better, some say this is worse.  Either way it’s proved there are alternative ways to the standard traditional edit layout.

How do you use your multi touch products? and where do you see the future of the editing interface?

 

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