The worst thing to happen to video editing since the release of Premiere Pro
Seriously, Apple. What have you done?
Sure, I'm not a fan (at all) of the way editing software is crippled by the needs to support proprietary technologies but entire editing studios are built upon a workflow. You can't just throw that workflow away with the next version without any means to transition. I can edit something in Premiere 6 and still have it imported with some moderate success to Premiere Pro CS5. We're talking support for a 10 year old program! (that I still use, in a virtual machine, because it's still the most efficient bread-and-butter clip editor out there)
It's definitely the end of an era. Maybe the new one will be simpler - the last 10 years of the digital editing revolution have been hard for new users but this seems like too far a step sideways, for me. Time will tell.
P.S. On further reflection, I think my problem with FCPX is this: the ease of use revolution for video editing needed to happen (I certainly have a dream video editor in my head that has yet to be made) but that program was not going to be the next final cut or the next premiere, it was going to be an entirely new program. If that's what apple wanted to do, that's what they should have done - retired FCP to patch-only updates and create a new editing program. They've made the new final cut something else entirely and at the same time taken away support for a massive massive editing industry.
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