Big dissappoint for professionals!!

[John Kilgour]

I hear ya! Glad I bought Media Composer 5.5 last week!

[Clayton Burkhart]

No FCP7 import. No XML/OMF export. No multicam.

However, these things are apparently coming.

Hence the Larry Jordan quote stating that it was not yet ready for professional use.

[Tony Brittan]

Bought it too! Heck, the Third-Party apps in the Avid bundle are worth the $995 alone!

Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions

[Tom Daigon]

So lets tell our clients to patiently wait until Apple gets around to giving this software what we need ! FC7 isnt a great alternative when lots of transcoding is needed. Im heading for the company that takes professionals seriously..HELLO ADOBE!

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Victor Perez]

FCP 7 is still on my machine and I am very happy to continue using it. As for FCP X. I will read on and decide later.

Victor
http://www.editvictor.com
http://www.hbhm.tv
http://www.itvisus.com

[Matthew Rogers]

@Victor, I’m in the same boat. I’m a bit confused why some of the Pro features weren’t in the initial release, but I’ll save my critique until they are added.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
Engine Room Edit
Boston, Ma
five13.net
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Craig Shields]

They could have avoided this fallout by just saying from the beginning what’s missing and what their time table is for getting it up to speed. While they are good at what the do, they are also stubborn as hell.

Having said that, I will continue to use FCP7 because it does what I need for the moment. I see a lot of potential in this new app the same way I saw it for the iPad when people were acting juvenile and making fun of the name. Some were saying they had no use for it and so on. Now no one makes fun of the name and every company is racing to get one to the market.

I am a bit disappointing that its not ready for prime time but it’s potential is great IMO.

[Tim Wilson]

[Craig Shields] “They could have avoided this fallout by just saying from the beginning what’s missing and what their time table is for getting it up to speed.”

There are business law obligations that prevent them from talking about timelines. You have to defer the revenue tied to the value of those promised features until the feature is delivered. It’s a pain to put a price tag on individual features, and Apple is NOT about delayed cashflow.

As for the “they should have told us,” they kinda did, by making sure that a hardcore pro like Gary Adcock is one of the people who got a pre-release version, where he says flat out that is not a release designed for pros.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/FCPX.php

And fwiw, the Apple demo said almost as much….

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tim Wilson] “he says flat out that is not a release designed for pros”

You gotta wonder at this point whether another Apple-privileged “guru”, namely Larry Jordan, will be retracting his retraction and agreeing with Gary this week 😉

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Craig Shields]

Well Tim I just saw that article today. I’m talking about when they did the preview.

If people really do jump ship like they are talking about here then I’m sure they won’t like the delay in that cash flow either.

I think people like Gary should have been brought into the loop sooner to give input that could have been implemented in this release. But I’m sure there are laws against that too.