[Morten Carlsen]

Quote “I think thats a very fair & practical call. 6 months is a good enough window for apple to show its seriousness & users to wait before they go their separate ways. ”

This is sounding like the Logic Pro users back in the day as Apple released Logic Pro 8. They were all angry that the app did not compliment the professionals and everyone felt that Logic Pro was targeted at consumers.

Then rumors started circling that in 6 months Apple would provide those updates/upgrades to Logic 8 and for a while everything was quiet.

6 months later we all realized that this wasn’t going to happen. And it never did.

To believe that Apple is going to turn FCP X into a professional’s dream-app – is but wishful thinking. It aint going to happen.

Ask yourself: Apple has been working on this new app for a long time. THen they release FCPx. without all those pro-features, with a notion of a 6 months later release for those features. No way, if those features had been planned, they would have been there by THIS release.

Sure, they will add a few dire features to keep the horde on ice. However, this app is NOT aimed at professionals and probably was NOT intended that way !!!

Personally, I think it is a nice app. And a game changer, indeed, for iMovie users.

What I love the most is this: FCP X now had Background rendering… Everybody be like “Yeahhhh” — I’m like, well – whether background oR foreground rendering – IT IS STILL RENDERING…

Premiere Pro with a $270 graphic card doesn’t need to render AT ALL… Think about that !

Be that as it may, I am a happy camper using PPRO & AE workflow and I am ALWAYS going to BET on the company making their revenue off of software rather than the company building software on the side….