[Joe Castellano]

Get the latest MacBook pro retina with the SSD drive. Make sure it’s Thunderbolt 2 and has the newest screen in it.
The 2013 models have image retention issues.

Buy the FireWire to Thunderbolt adaptor for any legacy drives.

Do not trade away your tower for an old MacBook. Just upgrade it’s system drive with an SSD.
Card slots are non-existent on the new Mac Pro.

Enjoy the speed moving forward!

[Joe Castellano]

Depending on your resources, I can see your comfort level in Avid & Premiere.

Call me crazy, but as a Flame Premium operator, I see FCPX 10.1 and Smoke on Mac as a powerful combo under $50k.

Avid and AMA gets dodgy and they don’t seem to ever mention 4K.

So for me, everything has it’s place:

-Projects 4 mins and under: FCP X 10.1

Very fast cutting & screening source clips. Easy picture in picture stacking, cropping & color correct.(no step In etc.)

Compound clip flexibility versus a video mix down.

Easy preset outputs when coupled with new Compressor.

-Long form projects: Avid MC

Still trust Avid right now with multiple audio tracks and omf output to mix. Prefer it as cuts only project to be finished in Flame Premium.

I would like to dip my toe in the many audio tracks pool with FCP X when the time is right, however

Finishing: Flame Premium

Still the box with clients attending. I hate doing any efx on Avid or FCP because I know how much faster the smoke/flame world is.

That said, I am finding FCPX 10.1 more fun than Avid, its the trophy wife for long time editors.

I do think that the keyframe editor needs an overhaul however.
(Would love to see more of a Flame graph representing keyframes, and true motion types)

Well good luck to everyone departing to the great creative cloud in the sky.

[Joe Castellano]

The App store has 7toX for Final Cut Pro, which may work to port your projects to X.

Since you are at version 6 and 10.1 changed Media hierarchy and projects, it may have required that they update the app.

You should contact Intelligent Assistance, the company that makes it.

As a Macbook user with an internal SSD running Mavericks, I would migrate away from a dual boot setup, i am completely spoiled by how fast this system boots.