Craig, I appreciate your outlook at X-FCP, your hopeful and that’s fine, but apple has made it perfectly clear that there phasing out of the industry, I mean I feel that the goal of the X-FCP designer was to make a program that could eventually go on the ipad. I feel that’s where X-FCP is heading and were the majority of the Developers are working on this as we speak, that would be amazing to do but it would make editing seem like a joke I mean if its so easy why pay me? Right? But I digress. To release a program with such a lack of basic functions is awful. The program itself is neat and has some really great concepts, but we wanted these in FCP7. It’s typical apple “My way or the Highway” attitude. Tomorrow apple could decide that using a mouse on a desktop is no longer “the future” and they would drop all support for mice (just joking of course), But Its what they do, and if they happen to be ever be wrong (god forbid) they just sweep it under a rug and remain quiet. I have 3 upcoming projects and after messing with X-FCP the last 2 weeks, I’ve realized I can’t use it with any of the upcoming gigs, Its not That I won’t use it, I literally can’t use it, it would take longer and hinder my clients patience, and its not because I don’t understand or know the program I’ve been using it non stop since release, It just FAILS at every point on my check list for what I need. I’m not an Amateur by any means, nor am I a Professional editor yet, but one day I’d like to be, SO I’ll learn FCP X in all its gimmicky greatness, But I’m turning to avid and Premier for future High Paid gigs and jobs, Apple really messed up on this one I’m not about to wait around for 5 years to get apple to put in all the missing features to get it on the FCP7 level and I’m not going to put my Faith into 3rd party Developers to fix this either. FCP X in like Putting a V12 in a pinto, it does have a lot of power and ability, but they need to change the body. Just my 2 cents. ☺
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