Yes, clients will also be happy later if you are still on FCP 7, but eventually with the ever changing camera formats it will be un-productive as an editor to continue with FCP7 on projects that require hours of transcoding to ProRes. Although I will use 7 well after the release of X, its the transcoding of material that will decide for me when to move on to X or another.
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