More Blogs on FCPX

[Andy Mees]

Well I’m not entirely sure what you’re suggesting young man. 😉 But I am certainly enjoying myself and don’t intend to stop so long as all this speculation remains as entertaining as it has been so far. I’m not sure which I’m enjoying more, watching the headless chickens running amok, or the watching the self appointed arbiters of reason running around desperately trying to catch them. Wheee … 🙂

[Craig Seeman]

I like herding cats.
I also like that cats will tend to eat the headless chickens without much encouragement.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Erik Lindahl] “Can we trust Adobe will keep up the race against the competition?”

No, you can count on us to lead. 😉 Sorry…couldn’t resist.

To directly answer your question, I would point to Adobe being able to keep up and lead in the areas that most affect editors and content creators today.

In tapeless workflows, Adobe has had a leadership position for a number of years. Avid has worked to catch up and I think that’s good for editors period. With FCP X, we do not know if their use of the word ‘native’ is in fact that, or just another spin at what FCP 7 calls native which is rewrapping or transcoding. The screenshot that people have talked about would lead some to conclude that the latter still holds true.

In integration with other apps, both Adobe and non-Adobe, again I think we’ve done well. Particularly the XML integration allows FCP users to drop in and out of Adobe if they so choose.

I could go on but the most important aspect of being able to confidently say, ‘yes, Adobe will continue to innovate for the users’ is that at NAB (when we announced CS5.5) we announced our intention to go to an bi-annual milestone release with a technology release on the in between years. What this means is that we’re telling you we’ll have CS6 in 2012 and presumably a .5 in 2013. I’m hoping to write a blog article on this in the near future to elaborate.

While I’ve probably went on rather too long, I hope this gives everyone the idea that Adobe is committed to the professional video space for the long haul and we’ll continue to listen to our users to help determine our future improvements.

To that last point, we’ve maintained a public feature request site that we tally results quarterly. We discuss them and often implement many of them in the ensuing versions. Here’s the link if you’re ever interested – it applies for all Adobe products I think…

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform