Why the vs 1.0 supporters?

[Glen Hurd]

Absolutely.
Furthermore, it’s rather narrow minded of me to think that the only ancients were human. Some arrow heads could have been brought here from space . . . just be patient, ’cause we’re working on that 😉

[Scott Sheriff]

[Glen Hurd] “Some arrow heads could have been brought here from space . . .”

Or the could have come through the Stargate.

Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair

Where were you on 6/21?

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Actually, they came from Caprica

[Bill Davis]

Sheesh, much historical myopia here?

Yeah, there are 2 million FCP seats NOW. After a decade of development.

I don’t remember these voices being around in the days when we FCP editors numbered in the hundreds – but I was. It was software that did some things well – and did a LOT of things marginally. I’ve heard EVERYTHING in these threads before – back in the day.. Over and over and over again. “It sucks” “It will NEVER be pro” It’ll never be AVID. It will never be (for gods sake!) as good as Adobe Premier.

NOW the rap is that Apple screws their customers by screwing with YOUR pet software. Sorry, but I’ve been there and heard it ALL before.

How exactly is this world view different from the dozens of raps Apple had to suffer in the past?

“Apple screws their customers by fostering a CLOSED hardware system.”
“Apple screws their customers by not using MOTOROLA chips”
“Apple screws their customers by not supporting FLASH”
“Apple screws their customers by not opening up the OS”
“Apple screws their customers by not being compatible with (insert favorite software or hardware peripheral here)

and on, and on, and on…

All of that “screwing the customers” hurt them SO much that they’ve only become second most valuable company in the US.

Clearly this indicated that they have no clue how to run their own business, right?

Or, (crazy idea here) they actually DO…

…and the resources, talent and research forces that they can wield to capitalize on the coming changes that they have seen on the horizon – are based on something that we poor editing peasants (myself included) simply haven’t seen coming. (Which IS scary, because it’s not like we’re still in the “editing skills are the key to a great living” era anymore, are we!)

We will see in a few short years whether this, the thousandth time someone has argued to me that Apple has made a BIG HAIRY ASSED MISTAKE, is somehow MORE true this time than all those many, many, many other times in the past.

But I actually try to LEARN from my past experiences. And one of them tells me not to bet against smart. And Apple proves time and time again to be a very smart company. Particularly against an array of competitors that have shown, to my eye at least, only modest innovation in the prior decade.

If FCP X makes it’s nut and clears a profit – and I can see no way that it won’t – especially considering it’s cost’s as an exclusively electronic product are NIL outside of the on-going development talent costs – it’s going to be a BEAST for those legacy companies loading boxes on trucks as a “modern” business model.

This IS a different game, folks. Just not the one many people keep insisting we’re still playing.

For a while, a ‘pro video editor” will still be someone who works in a building with a big staff and a parking lot. But like it or not, someday it will be simply a person who understands how to edit. A tablet and the cloud, if it’s someday the FUNCTIONAL equivalent of FCP 7 right now or what FCP X will become in a few years – is where the game will be played. Your log in code to the project will be ALL that separates you from your fellow editors. Whoever, wherever and whenever they are called to participate.

If you can’t see that coming. Your chosen software package will NOT protect you.

Simple as that, in my view.

If the voices squawking about FCP are right, then I think we’ll be, at worst, moving toward software Groundhog Day – a shadowless year more of legacy cardboard box software hell.

But shit, I just finally tossed my 40 lbs of FCP volume 1-6 box crap away back in January – and enjoyed the feeling of shedding the past. Times move on.

And we must all do the same, eventually.

FWIW.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Conner