[Dan Marz]

Craig, have you actually used it? Not just read about it but tried it out for yourself?

The concept is in infancy and has a lot of growing up to do and I don’t want to get old waiting for the day it matures. Like others have said, it is a half baked concept that was released too soon.

I have it and it is a downgrade from FCP7 and I have blown my dough on it. I can’t even work on previous FCP projects so what is the point in using it? It won’t even recognise my new Blackmagic HD capture card or do direct import of XDCAM material. Sure it has potential but it’s not a backward compatible upgrade as it should be.

It has some great new tricks but for now I am stuck with software that I can’t use. I expected better from Apple.

Call it iMovie X but not Final Cut Pro X, that release a scam and the scamers got my money.

Daniel

[Dan Marz]

Apple has not been listening to professional editors.

This version is total crap! I have just played with FCP X today and as a pro edit system it is rubbish.

I have been an editor for more than 20 years and have been using FCP for about 8. This release has so many things wrong with it, not bugs but standard features. It goes against how editors produce and has a simplistic and imprecise way of doing things. It is no longer a professional system, it is an upgrade from iMovie but not FCP version 7. It is pretty and has some very good points but wrong as a professional system it claims to be.

Apple, listen to professional editors not your marketing department. FCP X is rubbish and should be immediately renamed iMovie X. I will not recommend this to professional editors.

I hope Apple wake up to this stupid release and continue to support FCP with a release of version 8.