[Mike Warmels]

Honestly, I don’t care very much about all that. Apple decided to create a new paradigm and with that comes a different jargon. Silly? Yes, but hey, it’s what it is.

To me complaing about these phrases is just as silly as FCPX advocates who think AVID is stupid because the interface looks (!!!) outdated… So what? At least in AVID you can make it look more or less they way you want it.

My biggest issue is: is FCPX really better or faster. I have grave doubt about the latter. GRAVE doubts. I find myself pushing a lot of buttons for simple things. I counted that making a simple audio-video split edit of one frame (for arguments sake) takes SEVEN actions in FCPX… And only THREE in AVID MC8… Add the much more immediate media response in AVID MC8 and then where are we? To be honest, I find FCPX easy to learn, is kinda nice… pretty restrictive in customising it to personal needs, it’s cheap, it has powerful tool… but I have not found at all that it is FASTER. Project, event or library, sequence or bin whatever… I just don’t want to work around so much…