[Jeremy Garchow]Yes, there are some generalizations that could be made, but I guarantee that people won’t be happy, or someone that doesn’t know will ask a some forum somewhere “wait, this didn’t come over like it was placed in FCP7!”. Or “I received an XML of timeline that’s 4 years old, all the original media, render files, and editors/producers are gone, I am left to fix it. I have FCPx and some consolidated media. When I run the translation and reconnect, the audio and video is out of whack and things pop on and off randomly. Please help, edit due in four hours!” It is those assumptions that need to be made that make the process difficult.
Of course people will do this, but they won’t get much sympathy for trying to upgrade their project to another NLE in the middle of a time-sensitive edit. And I don’t think Apple would particularly worry about the support calls concerning this either, considering they are the “You’re holding it wrong!” company.