my heart is sinking reading this

[Tom Daigon]

Adobe has my vote as well. They deserve our business because they listen and implement what pros need in their software. Bye Bye crApple.

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

[Joe Murray]

But you’ll still run your Adobe product on Apple hardware, right? So either way, Apple wins.

Joe Murray
Edit at Joe’s
Charlotte, NC

[Tom Daigon]

They just win a little less..

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

[Scott Davis]

I don’t understand by what you mean when you say Apple is not listening. 64 bit, background rendering, cleaner interface, much better media management, compound clips, magnetic timeline (all things I and many, many others have been clamoring for for years) The gigantic missing parts (no edl, xml, log+capture to name a few) is very disconcerting at this point; but for Pete’s sake, this was a massive, massive re-write. Give them a bit to see what happens before a completely reactionary jumping of ship.

We all jumped on the Apple bandwagon long ago because they where innovators and pioneers. Now we should criticize and abandon them because they are doing the very thing that brought us into their fold?

Scott Davis

[James Mortner]

D’ya think it may be just a little premature to say ‘bye bye crApple’ ?

Just a bit ?

[Tom Daigon]

Car analogy….

Yes it has a great engine and a transmission with a few gears missing. But it has no wheels.

Adobe has all the parts I need NOW. If youd like to walk to work and wait until they figure out the wheels , thats fine. I dont have that luxury.

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

[Mark Palmos]

[Joe Murray] ”
But you’ll still run your Adobe product on Apple hardware, right? So either way, Apple wins”

The ONLY reason I have an apple computer is for fcp… but with my 8 core now not new enough to take full advantage of the 64 bit rendering, and with fcpX seeming so lacking in features, I would definitely be going for a really fast 64bit PC… and premiere.et

At the moment with fcpX it looks like I just wasted some money. FCP7 looks way better.

Mark

[Ben Holmes]

[Tom Daigon] “If youd like to walk to work and wait until they figure out the wheels , thats fine. I dont have that luxury.”

Really? What changed from last week? Is there a new version of CS out? i must have missed something.

FCPX was never going to hit every goal of users from day 1 – it’s a new product, and the core needs to be stable and workable first. There’s no question in my mind that XML etc. will follow.

It does seem to me that there is a mass of FCP-bashing going on here from current Adobe and Avid users – I wonder to what purpose? If you’re already using these products, what do you care what Apple has out now?

I like the experiment – and Apple have an existing product I can use for now.

Edit Out Ltd
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EVS/VT Supervisor for live broadcast
RED camera transfer/post
Independent Director/Producer

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[Craig Seeman]

[Mark Palmos] ” but with my 8 core now not new enough to take full advantage of the 64 bit rendering,”

How did you make this determination?
Of course I can’t even download it on MacPro 3.1 8 cores because I still have Radeon 2600 GPU installed.

[Chris Simpson]

So does adobe have multiclip sequencing now? I only ask as I only came over from PC/adobe, for 2 reasons, my PC could never be made stable or reliable enough and multiclip sequencing. It’s the foundation of more of workflow, so I’ll be sticking with FCP7 until it’s there, I also see Lion, a graphics card upgrade are required. I do wonder if my dual core mac pro will have the stones. You see when the announced the cheap price… Well really like trading in a car it’s not the price of the new car, it’s the cost to change.