[Al Levine]

I work in animation, so we deal with thousands and thousands of shots in various stages of production on multiple episodes.
In OS X Mountain Lion they introduced smart folders, which helped our workflow immensely.
The idea of tags in 10.9 takes this organization a huge leap forward.

(I know FCP X has these things sort of built in, but using our currently workflow Premiere or FCP 7 are the only options).

Edit: Because all animation is in house, we use servers and the Finder via an XSAN to do most of our organization, on top of an online content management system.

[Al Levine]

From the new MacPro page:

Final Cut Pro X. Now optimized for Mac Pro.
The new version of Final Cut Pro X (coming in December) has been engineered to take advantage of the 4K capabilities of the Mac Pro. The dual workstation-class GPUs in Mac Pro accelerate effects, optical flow analysis, video export — and virtually everything else you do in Final Cut Pro. Ultrafast PCIe-based flash storage means fast project loading and multi-stream 4K playback. And Final Cut Pro X has been so perfectly tuned to take advantage of the new Mac Pro, you can work in 4K — in real time — without rendering. (Take a minute to let that slowly sink in.)

[Al Levine]

Same boat as you. I know FCP X, Premiere, etc… But I’m still using FCP 7 99% of the time on a network animated show. I can’t see our workflow working in FCP X. It’s still working really really well for our needs.

Most other editors I know in both animation and movie trailers are still on FCP 7 as well. The Los Angeles scene (at least the one I’m a part of) just hasn’t really switched over.

[Al Levine]

I’ve got 3.2.3 (from a few months ago), it has:
PREFERENCES
WINDOW LAYOUTS
KEYBOARD LAYOUTS
…nothing new.

User Destinations / Color Presets seem to be new.

[Al Levine]

It’s actually pretty quiet on this forum, considering this is a major release.

I’m enjoying the software. I can move very quickly with the new key commands, it’s feeling good. It’s comfortable. Few small issues (that can be big depending on what I’m trying to do):

• When I use the pen tool to create keyframes on a clip, I cannot raise or lower the entire clips audio levels using a key command. Only when there aren’t any keyframes.

• Cannot match frame a freeze frame in the viewer, or change a freeze frame’s duration. Because I work in animation, I freeze frame quite a bit. In FCP 7, I would SHIFT+N to create a freeze frame, then drag out a duration.
Seems the only solution I can find is to export a JPEG still, then bring it back in… a lot of steps.

The software is FAST though, even with a ton of layers and effects it’s working amazingly well with my i7 iMac… Open CL is on, ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB.

[Al Levine]

Also worked in Premiere before FCP. I’m enjoying Premiere CC, there are just a few things I really need to do that I can’t figure out (above). Literally trying to do exactly what I did at work yesterday, just with different software.

[Al Levine]

They were two years ago to introduce X!

[Al Levine]

Maybe something great at the Super Meet. The agenda as of now is “super secret”…

[Al Levine]

It’s a new Macbook Air i7 with 4GB of Ram and 256 solid state.

[Al Levine]

What OS are you running?