Final Cut Pro X

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Originally Posted by petereit

Nobody's scrambling. All the post houses I work with have always used multiple tools and workflows.
I won't be surprised at all if FCX becomes the dominant editing system again in the next few years.

Nobody heavily invested perhaps but yeah, those who vested perhaps too much in FCP are sweating beads today for obvious reasons. I'd totally be surprised if FCX becomes a major player in any way shape or form. It simply won't. Apple obviously doesn't want to focus efforts in professional post-production. They sell iphones and such. I get it.
But check it... Avid could step up now with sweeet upgrade paths for folks like me stuck in Adrenaline haydeez and look where Adobe is poised in all of this. All of us use After Effects no matter what flavor of NLE we chose, right? Premiere simply isn't a consumer product anymore. Plenty capable and where many if not most FCP houses are already migrating to.
While I am disappointed that Avid didn't attack this chance like a struggling company with golden opportunity, man I can't say I'm surprised. They've been lettin' us down for years now.

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I think people are missing the bigger picture here. Apple doesn't have a very good track record with "professional products." Most that they have purchased or created they have killed off, or dumbed down in to a "consumer" product. FCP has been one long running exception, but now seems to have followed the same path.

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They did well with it from only our stand point. I remember when it first came out and I got to watch it evolve over the years. Thing is, the support and overhead it takes Apple to compete with little companies like Avid, man they'd just simply rather not. That's easy to see if you look at it from their stand point. They have macs and gadgets to move. What they may not be looking close enough at is... the truth is many mac owners (and now iphone, iPad, ect owners) are a direct result of FCP because it was a mac only NLE. Perhaps they did look at this and decided it still wasn't worth the overhead. Either way, it's pretty obvious they are looking at bigger things than taking market share from companies that only dabble in this little spec of business. The video post world is pretty small compared to those going toe to toe with Microsoft. If FCX were to EVER be a contender in the modern post world, Apple is certainly smart enough to wait it out to make their move. They have boldy stated their intentions... and that's NOT to compete in this arena.

[petereit]

Originally Posted by cmchamp

I've not purchased it yet, and am not sure if I will. I haven't even updated to Snow Leopard, even though I own it.

LOL!! We're still on Leopard and didn't even bother upgrading to FCP 7 when it came out. And guess what? We're still cranking out new media every week, on our two-version-old FCP in our two-version-old OS running on our two-version-old Mac Pro. And we're happy as clams.

I suppose when Apple is on their third or fourth update of FCX, maybe we'll upgrade.

Maybe not.

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Why do you think it is that clams are always so happy?

[cmchamp]

I've got FCP1 through Final Cut Studio 2, as well as several flavors of iMovie so that I can capture live on whatever G4 or Intel Mac I've got available. Saves transfer from tape time. I guess when I can afford to update to an SSD or card based camera, I'll look to upgrade my software.

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I'm in much the same boat but with supervised shoots and edit sessions. I still shoot on an FX! and still edit on an Avid Adrenaline system. Later this year will bring a 5D to the party complimented with an updated edit suite or two. I may just upgrade to Avid's latest but right now, I really think I'm gonna go for a nice all adobe suite. Strange that Premiere can now be an upgrade from Avid but I didn't make that call. Avid did. I was ready to pounce on a sweeet FCP8 suite but that wasn't in the cards. Glad I didn't make that jump last year.

[petereit]

Originally Posted by grinner

Why do you think it is that clams are always so happy?

I'm always happiest when I've been at the beach all day.