[Dave Sims]

Call me a hater but I am done with depending on Apple applications for my livelihood. Apple Inc. just punched most editors in the world in the gut. OK I will punch back. I am done with the Cupertino kids except for maybe another platform. They can forget selling me any more software.

The great things about FCPX, and there some really great things, are far outweighed by the missing professional tools. Of course the future is file based, but you can’t operate in the pro world strictly on that basis yet. And the audio, sheesh! I don’t care what’s “coming.” It’s vaporware until it’s there.

Maybe the next couple of updates will make a schmuck out of me and I’ll do a 180. But I doubt it. Ten or fifteen years ago I was fond of saying “Avid is the way God intended us to edit.” I guess I will find religion again.