Goodbye FCP

[Andrew Corneles]

They bragged about broadcast and post facility NLE market share at the event where FCP X was announced. Had Apple not been interested in the pro market in the long run, they wouldn’t have bothered with a long and no doubt expensive rewrite of Final Cut in the first place.

I hate to say anything to one person specifically, but you really have been coming out against people that are upset –
This is NOT an expensive rewrite of Final Cut. it is iMovie Pro.
Please open up iMovie and then FCPx, and tell us how different it is.

This program is not “Final Cut”, it WILL NOT open legacy projects.
to defend this release is just ridiculous. they have had 4+ years to overhaul FCP and they didn’t do it. Maybe this will be great for you,
but to come out in every thread and argue with people that are wondering what the hell apple is thinking about this, or dare to say they’re leaving a company (that has LITERALLY ended support for their livelyhood FCPServer, COLOR, DVDSP, and FINAL CUT ) is just silly.

[Sohrab Sandhu]

[Buddy Couch] “I am NOT an apple fanboi or whatever you like to call it. I am just saying relax and realize that Apple is working hard on addressing your concerns. Do you seriously think they are this blind?”

You know what, since you are so tirelessly defending apple,its about time you back up you statement with some facts. Because this BS theory full of assumptions is not working for us anymore.

Has somebody from apple written to you or spoken with you. What is it that you know, that we already don’t know?

Sohrab

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[Chris Kenny]

[Andrew Corneles] “This is NOT an expensive rewrite of Final Cut. it is iMovie Pro. “

That oft-repeated criticism is fundamentally meaningless. Does FCP X share some UI similarities with iMovie? Sure. Because Apple rolled out new editing UI first in iMovie, where the stakes were lower. Does FCP X lack some workflow features at the moment? Yes. But this has nothing to do with its relationship to iMovie. What, specifically, is this “It’s iMovie Pro” line intended to actually say?

[Andrew Corneles] “they have had 4+ years to overhaul FCP and they didn’t do it. “

What do you mean by “overhaul FCP” here? Do… something to the old Carbon/QuickTime codebase? What, exactly? The features everyone wanted — 64-bit, strong multicore and GPU support, a fix for longstanding QuickTime-related issues, etc. — were effectively impossible to implement on the old codebase. It was obvious they had to do a rewrite if they wanted to stay in the game. This time last year, it was the skeptics insisting they wouldn’t do one, and the “fans” saying they would. Now the skeptics seem to be arguing they shouldn’t have?

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[David Roth weiss]

[Buddy Couch] “I am just saying relax and realize that Apple is working hard on addressing your concerns. Do you seriously think they are this blind? “

Blind? No. Wearing blinders? Seems so…

Deaf? Certainly appears that way.

Dumb? As in the sense of being mute… Absolutely!

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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