Philip Bloom Asks Seven Editors to Share Their FCP X Experiences

[Chris Harlan]

[Steve Connor] “Actually I’m cutting a feature on it at the moment!
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Cool!

[Craig Seeman]

I think we’re over the hump. People are liking 10.0.3. This is probably what people would have expected at the initial release.

There’s still some complaints but it would have been more of a grumble than an uproar.

If only Apple’s management and marketing had handled this better.

[Richard Herd]

Handled it better? Better than having us pay $299 to be beta testers? Pretty much genius, really. Without the FCP brand it wouldn’t have happened.

[Craig Seeman]

[Richard Herd] “Handled it better? Better than having us pay $299 to be beta testers? “

But you get the free update to the first almost complete release 😉

It’ll be interesting how they handle upgrade pricing given the App Store policy.
For $299 you subscribe to FCPX for 18 months and they pay another $299 for the next version?
I believe some App Store developers issue coupons to current users when the next paid version hits the store, with a fairly narrow period to take advantage of it.

BTW as much as I like FCPX I think you’re being kind by calling it beta. In my early posts I said that I liked it but it seemed more like alpha. Alpha in that it wasn’t feature complete. Beta is at the point one is testing complete features for release. I was a little tongue in check about that but, as far as “the market” is concerned, 10.0.3 probably comes closer to meeting people’s expectations of a feature complete 1.0 app.

[Richard Herd]

What?! You mean the part when the app crashes was not part of the design? Who knew!?

[Craig Seeman]

[Richard Herd] “What?! You mean the part when the app crashes was not part of the design? Who knew!?”

That was a built in feature to showcase that when you reopened the project you wouldn’t lose anything even though there was no save function. That the “didn’t lose anything” didn’t always happen was the demo of the automatic quit, delete all, restart app function. Apparently some people weren’t happy with those auto random features so they removed them. That proves Apple was listening to the user base of course 😉

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I’m always around for the occasional crazy..

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[David Roth weiss]

[Craig Seeman] “BTW as much as I like FCPX I think you’re being kind by calling it beta. In my early posts I said that I liked it but it seemed more like alpha. Alpha in that it wasn’t feature complete. Beta is at the point one is testing complete features for release. I was a little tongue in check about that but, as far as “the market” is concerned, 10.0.3 probably comes closer to meeting people’s expectations of a feature complete 1.0 app.”

I said that same thing back in June and you disagreed. 🙂

David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
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David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Craig Seeman]

I’m pretty sure I was calling it an alpha early on. I said I felt it was a good foundation but feature incomplete.

OK I said it July 12th.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/10361

My exact words.
FWIW it’s more alpha than beta. Beta implies feature complete being tested. Alpha means features not yet implemented which is where it’s at as far as I can tell.

and the first post I see you saying it is Oct 19
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/18482

[David Roth weiss]

[Craig Seeman] “and the first post I see you saying it is Oct 19”

Actually Craig, as early as June 23rd I wrote: “If you recall, ever since the early days of Discreet Edit* I’ve always hated the idea of paying to beta test for companies that knowingly release software that’s not ready for prime time.”

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/4426

In any case, I was joking with you today, but do I think we’re essentially in agreement. 🙂