I’m in a similar situation. More than 10 years on FCP.
Now, I want to switch, since in my current coming up project, the C300 footage cannot be suggested anymore in FPC. So I decided to go two ways – learning X and AVID.
PPro I still kind of now, it was actually my first NLE software. It’s very hard, since I have to learn it while actually keep working, so I have long nights with little sleep. I got into X for a week now. And like Shane I hated it in the beginning when they released it back then, since I felt back stabbed by Apple. But now I got over the anger and I must say some things in FCPX are just mind blasting. I just keep asking myself, why nobody introduced those things before to a software? But that said, there is still things, that need definite work still: Now I have to spend another 150.- Dollars, only to be able to export AAF and OMF, which I think, should be part of a pro software.
Other than that, I can strongly suggest FCPX. I like AVID too, but it’s a very solid tank, while X is a very mobile jet. I find many things in AVID very inflexible and not intuitive, compared to even FC 7.
If you go for X, I hope, I can help you by then with Qs, like all the good COW people help me right now to get up to speed.
Greetings,
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang