[Brian Andrews]

While there is no doubt that FCP X is related to iMovie, you are taking points from the iMovie ’08 launch out of context.

iMovie is for consumers. Apple is very clear on that. That demo was aimed at consumers–soccer moms and dads who want to quickly and easily edit family videos.

You can’t lump Apple’s views on making video editing quick, easy and fun for those folks into their entire philosophy.

I know fairly intelligent people in the mid 40s who have never downloaded photos off of their digital camera into their computer. They take the camera to Walgreen’s and print photos.

These are the people Apple is trying to reach with iMovie.

Apple has always been about giving ALL of us great tools to do great things.

Hopefully, they will continue to do the same for the Pros with future enhancements to FCP X.