[J Hussar]

Yes, I remember very well how people were exceptionally worried when they put him in charge.

I was hoping against hope that Ubillos wouldn’t ever dare screw up the major success that FCP had become. I really didn’t think it possible, this was a flagship product.

But he did it!

[J Hussar]

That’s nonsense.

1 OS 9 was always available after OSX – I think it still can be found.
2. They incorporated ‘classic’ in OS 9 so you could run your older apps. From wikipedia:

Classic, or Classic Environment, was a hardware and software abstraction layer in Mac OS X that allowed applications compatible with Mac OS 9 to run on the Mac OS X operating system. Classic is supported on PowerPC-based Macs running versions of Mac OS X up to v10.4 Tiger.

So it worked for 4 iterations.

The concerns and anger are legit.

If they came out with this and gave it another name that would be one thing, or called it ‘iMovie Pro’ – which is what it actually is (notice it opens legacy iMovie files – why was that so easy to do if it is all ‘new’ – there would not be this hue and cry.

[J Hussar]

I needed that!

Everyone sees – the emperor has no clothes!

[J Hussar]

I think Borko was being sarcastic. Hence the smiley face at the end.

[J Hussar]

You nailed it Herb… all the misdirection that they ‘can’t’ do something is simply nonsense.

Programming is NOT impossible. They chose not to support pros.

[J Hussar]

I like final cut 7 – it was just getting long in the tooth and not taking advantage of the 12 processors and 24 GB of RAM I have in my MacPro (which was well over $7k).

They sold FCP as a tool for pros. They lied and said the new version was for pros. A lie.

Basically they lied, they continue to lie – even knocking the negative comments off the app store until they got caught doing it.

It’s a PR disaster for Apple – much bad mouthing going on in the real world. This is real negative word of mouth from people who love really always loved Apple.

Randy Ubillos should resign over this fiasco. Simple.

[J Hussar]

Maybe in the iMovie forum?

Just kidding!

[J Hussar]

[Tony Brittan] “Any way I could get my hands on it? I’ve got a public folder on .me and Dropbox.

I’d greatly appreciate it!!!

Tony Brittan”

I think I have a line on it. Making some calls. If I find it I’ll let you know – serves me right for using the software updater!

Apple, talk about creating incredible ill will!!!

[J Hussar]

This is disastrous!

Let’s say you have a problem and do a clean re-install. If there is no access to an updater then you are S.O.L.

Damn, I have to going looking for updaters now!!

This just keeps getting better!

[J Hussar]

I think they put FCPX out as part of their new IOS consumer, finger swiping focus.

They will see if people are angry (and every pro I’ve talked to in the past 24 hours is exceedingly angry). Seeing we are angry may force them to put in the features we need. Or at least be forced to make some statement through back channels, etc. about it all.

If we pros say nothing – or worse – we talk happily of the new look, or some dumb meta data nonsense, or are stupid enough to think that the features we need will be magically added and we stay quiet, then we will get nothing from them. Then FCP, as we knew it, is dead.

Pretty simple.

Also, adding feature is simply programming – that’s it. Pulling in a linear timeline from 7 is simply code like an EDL and conforming it to the new project timeline. Maybe we don’t get our bins back, but a timeline is not hard. Seriously!