[Floris Van eck]

Stop being so sour!

FCP is dead. Over. Fini. Killed. Murdered. Transformed. Changed gender. Call it whatever you want to call it.

FCP X is one of the best applications I ever used. So much attention to the details. To me, it makes Premiere and Avid look like a toy. I am getting really tired by the old editing crew that wants editing to stay like it was in 1930 and doesn’t accept change. Some of you where the guys that adopted digital editing while the then old crew was still cursing it. The attitude towards FCP X has changed dramatically since 10.0.0 which I consider a beta that lasted till 10.0.2. I think with 10.0.3, we have the first release that is worthy of a non-beta tag, broadcast support excluded.

Times change. The world changes. The Internet changes. Broadcast is changing. Everything changes.

Embrace the change or don’t change but stop the complaining. And don’t waste your time hoping that Apple will ever launch FCP 8. Apple is not such a company. I think that even a viewer and switch for the magnetic timeline aren’t likely to be included by Apple. There is a vision behind the product and I think it is the right one, if you want a viewer and tracks… just use Avid or Premiere. Apparently, most people that are dissatisfied with FCP X still want FCP 8 very badly so Premiere and Avid aren’t perfect either. Neither was FCP.