I totally agree. I’d like to know how long / whether fcp7 will be supported. There are still some multiclip bugs in there ( namely errors with dissolves in sequence and edls) which need fixing). With no multiclip editing or full quality broadcast monitoring anymore it looks like it’s back to avid for a lot of users. Fcp X is not a professional piece of software anymore, and that is a decision made by the users not the manufacturers.
Hopefully Apple will listen to it’s professional user base and bring back the features that let us editors work and interface with other professionals – sound mixers, colorists, broadcasters etc as we successfully do at present with fcp7. They denied the early rumor about it being more prosumer and yet that’s exactly what they’ve done. I’ll watch it with interest as I did with Fcp when it first came out, it will be awesome one day, but it’s not yet.
A great disappointment for professional apple users … we had fun though didn’t we?! Thank god avid has kept developing on the professional route and listened to it’s users!