Quest for Editing Software w/Storyboard functionality

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alanfitch

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I've been a Sony Vegas Pro user since version 3.0 and overall pretty happy except for one thing: lack of a true storyboarding function for arranging clips within the editing software. Why modern "non-linear" editing software should be stuck with a linear device like a timeline for assembling and rearranging clips is beyond me, and frankly costs me time in the editing process. My first nonlinear system was the //Fast Video Machine, which allowed me to create subclips and happily rearrange their order in a bin before dropping them en masse onto the timeline (in Windows 95!) It worked great. The Video Toaster had a great storyboard function where the clips could be dragged all over the screen to create the finished order. Somewhere in the evolution of editing software since then, that feature got lost and I could sure use it.

I'd love to find a professional editing system that has that functionality. Repeated requests to Sony for it have been ignored. Last I saw, Premiere Pro had something marginally like that, but the rest of the interface was so clunky and non-intuitive the last I looked (CS 5.5) that I've written them off my list.

Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA,
Alan
 
This is not such an exotic feature. You can do this in Avid, Lightworks and FCP-X. Probably a few others, too.
 
Premiere's windows (interface) can be re-arranged almost endlessly. I have seen people who have such a radically different interface from mine that I didn't even recognize it as Premiere at first.

You request is brilliant - I've never even thought about a NLE displaying this way since I have never seen it.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that can be achieved in Premiere, but I wouldn't know how to do it.
 
He's not asking about window display, though. He's asking about arranging clips in an environment other than the timeline. He mentioned Fast, which became Pinnacle Edition, Pinnacle Liquid, etc., which would let you arrange clips like you're arranging photos on a table, and then when you go to the timeline, they're arranged that way already.
 
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