re: to keep the forum controversial, and why apple is a disgrace

[Craig Seeman]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “craig, aren’t you slightly irked that we know barely nothing at all professionally off the back of that FCPX demo? “

It would only be irksome if it impacted a major purchase decision.

[Aindreas Gallagher] “that so much stuff was left to go swing like that?”

I know more than I knew before the Supermeet began. I had some key questions answered such as 64bit, background rendering. Magnetic timeline is a great new feature (as long as you can disable it if needed). Most of the new UI I like. I like precision editing and the waveform control in the timeline. The in app color correction looks very good (but I want tracking for mattes in secondaries to be useful). I’d like to see a viewer or at least a “two up” to be able to cut on action. Basically I like what I saw. The stuff I didn’t know going into that that, I still don’t know so I’m not any worse off.

The only bothersome things is how I had to rethink some minor purchasing decisions given NAB discounts. There are plugins and other software utilities I might have bought that I had to hold off on to see about compatibility or even if they’d be useful.

If FCPX is missing critical functions I need I’ll certainly have to consider Avid or Premiere . . . but many of us faced that decision anyway given that FCP was falling behind. So there’s no change there either. I still have to wait to see FCPX.

The time to be irked is when I spend $300 on FCPX and find that I have to spend more money to move to another NLE. Or that Avid’s $995 deal ends June 17 which may be before FCPX can be downloaded and tested.

The time to be irked is when I can get all my questions answered and what I see causes me to spend more money. That won’t happen until June download day. And I may be very happy with what I see.

Right now, nothing has changed so I have no reason to be irked. I liked what I saw so I have no reason to be irked. What I don’t know then I still don’t know now so I have no reason to be irked.

I am happy that I live in a time where I can change NLEs for $2000 rather than $60,000 and may like something for as little as $300.

[Mark Whalen]

Much of the speculation surrounding FCP X on this and other forums has begun to come across as either A) abject hand wringing; or B) trolling. Regardless, we’ll all see in due time – at which point we can make our own decisions as to move forward or move on with regadrs to Final Cut.