The FCP-X 10.1.0 nexus?

[Bill Davis]

[Ben Mullins] ” after they decide they want something a bit more professional and move to X.”

The problem for me with this idea is that there’s just so much coded into X that is WAY beyond the needs of anyone doing iMovie type work.

From XML to 4K+ to Rendering with 32bit floating point precision, there’s just so much in X that seems to indicate that Apple is focused on crafting a completely professional editing ecosystem in the design of X. (I know that some of those things are also in iMovie, but the whole point of the shared code idea is that if you already have a great engine – why develop a totally separate one for your alternate program? Doesn’t make sense to me.

So I have trouble thinking that they believe they’re building just a “next step” for iMovie editors. If I was a company designing a program to those targets, there’s a massive amount of what X is today that I feel would have been a vast waste of time to put in so early for simple “trade up” customers.

But maybe that’s just me.

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