Anyone who’;s been in the production industries for any length of time has already navigated many technology changes: from analog to digital, SD to HD, SDR to HDR and so on. Avid Media Composer was first out the digital Non-Linear Editing gate, and pretty much every other interface was inspired by the design decisions made there, until Final Cut Pro X rethought some of those assumptions.
Now there is a whole new generation of editing tools that take very different approaches to video storytelling: from RunwayML, through Builder NLE, Reduct, Synthesis.io, to whatever Adobe’s Project Blink evolves into, that take quite different approaches to solving the problem of organizing media into compelling stories.