On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 180832 +0200, Matt Sandstrom
wrote

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What you say makes perfect sense - for production
work, for a preferred style of working, or for
convenience, if that style fits you. I'm not
disagreeing with you, but pointing out that those
without Avid/Media 100 backgrounds, or those without
a need to see the overall "shape" of the product
early-on, or those who are working with "linear-event"
videos (like weddings, where almost everything is
used, in order of occurrence), or those who are just
starting (most buyers of Premiere, these days...),
or those who really prefer to work directly on the
timeline, may find the dual-window system less
than intuitive and pleasant to use... I do do
rough-cuts - but I find it easier to stack material
along the timeline in rough order, then do local
assembly for each of those stacks, then start doing
the finish work. There are easy methods in Premiere
for moving around groups of clips on the timeline
if I change my mind about the overall order of
events in the video. A "stack" may have several
alternative versions of a clip, roughly cut, it
may have a bunch of related material ready for
sequencing, or it may contain the synched 3/4-camera
footage - but it is all right there on the
timeline (in easily-seen "filmstrip" form),
ready to use (not one or two steps removed from
the timeline...;-). All this is a matter of
temperament, product-type, experience,
time-constraints, etc. - neither is "correct"
or "better" in absolute terms, but in relative
terms, I think most people, for most projects,
would find the timeline editing method easier
to use... (But, then again, mebbe not...;-)