Insane or not, i see where you’re both coming from.
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I, for one, would really be disappointed to see Apple split the software end of the product line into a “High-End” and “Low-End” model.
If they release a hardware assist engine that pushes the software to a whole new level, well that would be more than welcome.
But if they start divying up the software features, so that only so only those with the super-dooper FCP-Xtreme hardware are allowed to play … well that would be a shame.
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Regardless, when has any update not been welcome? For many people, FCP 5’s hot ticket was the multicam support … personally it left me cold (although I’ve been happy to use it since). But the under the hood improvements, especially multichannel audio on import was a very big deal fo me. Whatever the next update brings, hardware or software or both, I say “Bring it on”, “Show me what you’ve got” etc 🙂