Main track sheet for time and layer arrangement with clips floating loose in workspace below track area like paper scraps ready for arranging.  Ease of use was paramount and whenever possible we used a literal scrap paper example with the table as mock-window. Over the years a number of news stations and editing suites have rang us up to thank us for a solid tool that always performs even at this late date.

The job was complicated by a decision midway to remove picture icons from the media clips. That is, in order to avoid a royalty payment to certain patent holders the executive management required the F+F design dance around this legality. The patent was for the notion of a thumbnails of media represented by a picture of its own content - an easy to arrange trick graphic designers have done for decades.

This lead to it being quite alright to show the picture icons in Clipsheet bins, but not in the main Tracksheet window where a user spends their time. Go figure.

At every decision point the profile Form and Function assumed was that of a news reporter, or harried editor, with little interest digging in through an obtuse interface, or dense manual, and always the POV of technically limited user. There was great sympathy for those in the industry to quickly churn through their clips to assemble a piece for airing. The elements had to be obvious, clearly marked, and allude to real world metaphors to reduce training {and re-training} time.

To be both powerful and simple interface implicit attributes like color imbue subtle cues of media type & status with associative colors and symbols. At every point possible we associated the matisse-style media type symbols with any content image the user would be working with. This way a user in the main assembly area identifies the functional and content objects with little effort on their path to completion.
Done is beautiful.

Log Editor dialog gave order to mass-consuming raw footage.