Rest easy, Final Cut Pro X updates to bring missing features … eventually

Final Cut Pro(sumer).

HOW APPLE KILLED FINAL CUT PRO 

First of all, i am a apple junkie, down to the core, love it and live apple.
when skeptics last month were nagging on Final Cut Pro X, i was the one saying "no way Apple would kill all the Pro features, you will see"

Along comes D-day, FINAL CUT PRO X is out, wow!!! Can it really be? it was like Xmas for me.. i wait for a friend to buy it before jumping the gun. After a quick install and launch, we are up…

WTF?? NO sequences? NO project settings? NO video output? NO EDL? NO XML? NO precise way to adjust keyframe settings like in FCP 7? NO assignment of audio tracks? NO Multicam tool? NO Capture from Tape? Where did all the output setting go? no flexibility to change your project settings and output to the way you want. The list goes on and on.

Xmas was over, Santa is a fake and Final Cut Pro X is no longer a Pro app. Very sad;(

A few months ago, i was helping my friends kid to setup himself on imovie and i remembered the interface well and the lack of any Pro features.. Now we have Final Cut Pro X with the same type interface and the same problem with a lack of Pro Features… What happened? did all the Final Cut Pro engineers get fired and the iMovie engineers said "we can do it for you"?

For a Pro user that works on TV shows, this is unusable!!!!

if there is no "major" updates to bring back all the Pro Featues in the next months, i will have to go back to Avid Media Composer after 12 years with Final Cut Pro.

As far as i see, Final Cut Pro is dead for the professional user, Apple decided to sell out to the general public. Shame on you APPLE!!!!!

My company does video editing and makes photo slideshows for weddings and other events. We use a combination of iMovie and Premiere. I bought Final Cut yesterday, and it fits my needs well. It will certainly take iMovie out of my workflow. Once they implement multi-cam, we might be able to replace Premiere.

I will say that they shouldn't have named it Final Cut. It's a completely different product than previous versions, and it has much more in common with iMovie. If they would have released it as a different brand (possibly even iMovie Pro), it wouldn't receive near the criticism.

I'm happy with the new product. It helps me finish projects faster, which makes me more money. I feel sorry for previous Final Cut fans, who would have been happier to spend $1,000 to just adding 64bit support and multi-core processing.

I think Apple messed this one up pretty bad.  $299 for an incomplete product, very un-Apple-like.  Waiting for promised updates on some vague future date, so you can have features that should have been there in the first place, is definately not Apple-like.  I think iOS is their main focus and everything else is just secondary.  It shows.

Some of us have waited a very long time for significant updates to FCP - and now this?!  Yikes!  Is Apple even wanting to stay in the Pro Video market?  In all seriousness I'd like a direct answer to that question because we've got some serious decisions to make.  To reiterate:  By now FCP is in a relatively arcane state and this update was a very long time in coming for those of us making a living with this tool.  And now to get all excited about a product that's going to be more like iMovie...?  Again, Yikes!  Premiere is looking better all of the time with one caveat - their history of uninterrupted support for professional video editing on the Mac doesn't exist.  It's been a long time since I actually felt excited about a new video package, and I was excited about FCP X - so excited in fact that I started a P.O. to upgrade all of our editors - I've pulled the plug indefinitely and am very seriously considering moving to Premiere - while it's there for the Mac.

I've been a Mac user since the beginning of Mac time and I've noticed a few things, here's one:  When Apple wants to do something they can get it just so totally right - but when their hearts are not fully into something it's too often mediocre and at best all flash with no substance.  What's it gonna be Apple?  Are we getting serious about FCP or is it just gonna fade into another iMovie/iDVD iMi Madré irrelevance?

Dare I say XSAN...!?

Hey guys, we were able to have a live interview with Philip Hodgetts last night and we've gotten the podcast archive online... if you want to hear from Philip, please give it a watch

http://blog.planet5d.com/ph

Seems that they took this route for the new iMovie, left out features and then added them back in in a later update. Wonder what their thinking is behind that?