Comments on: Final Cut Pro X – Conan’s Editors Give Opinion

By: ed hansen

ed hansen — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:20:55 +0000

sure does not sound like an upgrade is in order when you cut out features that are needed?.
Files and any data is not compatable or ???

By: Guy Maxfield

Guy Maxfield — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:45:30 +0000

personaly people choose soft ware based on prior skill set experience with preceding versions. If they are happy with what they are using they will stick with it intill they find a solid reason to change

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:11:46 +0000

Adobe Attacks Apple and Avid
Adobe offers 50% discount to anyone who has purchased any version of Apple® Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer to purchase Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

Read the offer at the Adobe website:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201107/070111AdobeSwitcherProgram.html

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:16:23 +0000

Final Cut Pro X is Not a Professional Application

That’s the heading of a Dramatic Petition against Apple.

Here’s the link http://www.petitiononline.com/finalcut/petition.html

By: Timothy Palmer-Benson

Timothy Palmer-Benson — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:11 +0000

I see no need to switch to FCP X at the moment. It is still in evolution and I am sure it will be really good in a few years, but right now I consider it still in Beta. I have thought about switching over to Premier, AE and Encore, but don’t see a compelling reason to learn ALL about this software suite. I particularly resent the 5.5 upgrade thing. I hear that very few meaningful changes were actually made and the dynamic link feature is still buggy, so why switch to fine more bugs in unfamiliar software. My advise is to still with Final Cut 7. It is like an old friend and of course it has some faults, but it does get the job done!

By: Orlando Mergal

Orlando Mergal — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:55:29 +0000

Lately Apple has been shoving change down our throats whether we like it or not. I’ll stick to Final Cut 7, thank you very much. Maybe even return to Premiere. As for the Macintosh App Store, it seems like all the small software vendors are embracing it but not so much the large ones.

Steve seems to be so inebriated with the success of the iPhone that he feels he can bottle it and apply the same principles to everything else.

Well, some of us like to leave well enough alone!

By: Andrew Sommer

Andrew Sommer — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:18:24 +0000

After using FCP since version 1.2 I just switched from FCP to Adobe’s Master Suite and have no regrets. I saw FCP falling behind in integrating Solid state memory codecs such as AVCHD which Premier 5 and the mercury playback engine handles with no problems. The cost was my final reason to switch. I was able to buy a top line PC custom built for so much less then a new Mac I had enough to buy the entire Adobe Master Collection which work together as one solid production package.

Hearing what has been done with the new FCP X I’m sure it will be solid eventuqally but Apple always seems to want to get more $$$ from its users.

By: Igor Yanovskiy

Igor Yanovskiy — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:44:42 +0000

O boy… I just finished watching the training video about FCP X and then I installed it. I had the same feeling when I first installed FCP 6 years ago (I wasn’t really happy because it was too complicated compared with other NLEs) . Now it is a completely different software. I wish Apple would just improve FCP 7 with all these new ideas.

By: Hal

Hal — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:37:25 +0000

Here’s another video from David Pogue of the NYTimes showing some of the improvements of X and how they help you edit.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/06/23/technology/personaltech/100000000878633/final-cut-pro-gets-easier.html

By: Scott Bert

Scott Bert — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:19:54 +0000

For wedding videographers that need to get their wedding videos edited in a professional and timely matter, this definitely is not the time to be be switching to FCP X.