[Mat Rees]

My question was purely theoretical: if FCP X had those input/output options would it be of value? I should have said:

Would FCP X be a brilliant offline tool in the same way FCP7 has been?

Audio mixing and colour correction are handled by dubbing mixers and colourists on professional Pogle systems/baselight or protools etc, whatever you choose.

We have never seen FCP as an online tool. Only something to ram together a cut before a conform and grade on a more sophisticated system. Not that it couldn’t do it, there are just better tools for online and finishing.

4K though, any DIT can give you Pro Res or Uncompressed .movs to do with what you will off the back of a RED shoot.

Thankyou for a sensible answer in these time of madness.