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FCPX, just the tip of the iceberg

I know that everybody on this forum felt, at some point, a kind of hesitation regarding the software "I don't want to call it upgrade because it's not". I felt the same, but for some reason, probably related to my blind trust in apple and in all what Apple does, I hit the buy button anyways.

My slow internet connection allowed me to take my time to watch and read plenty of reviews and demos while the software was downloading, most of them were exciting except for the one issued by Apple in which we get the shocking advise to not install FCPX on the same disk where FCP Studio is located! I panicked because I had a project still in the rough-cut stage and I just couldn't afford not to be able to continue working on it on my FCP studio applications.

But It was too late as FCPX was installed and all of my FCP Studio apps were moved to a new folder.

I followed Apple's advise in moving my FCPX to a new folder and then bring FCP Studio apps back to the application folder where they used to be.

Apple instruct to lunch Motion-4 first, so I hold my breath and did just that, it launched perfectly well, I tried the rest of my FCP Studio apps, everything was working well. ufff, that was a at least a good start.

Now to FCPX, the app launched in no time and that was my first good impression, sat back and contemplated the UI and for some reason I felt HOME.

I'd barely used iMovie before, except for it's built-in trailers that I find funny to use as a teaser to showcase among friends, I'd never used anything else for editing except FCP "since version 2"

Second impression was, again, speed, a 2 minutes cut took less than 5 minutes of editing, I was literally flying cutting those iPhone-4 clips taken last weekend while cycling.

Third impression, still in the positive side, is the export speed, THIS-IS-THE-FUTERE.

everything worked smooth and like magic, smooth cam did a huge job stabilizing my shaky cycling footage, color correction and effects gave the whole movie a totally different look and feel, the rendering speed was just phenomenal. I was hooked to the bones.

I'm not here to defend the software as an absolute must have, neither I am here to tell you that it can replace FCP studio right now,not a all. We still got to keep FCP studio for some time... we all know that.

The actual version of FCPX is not perfect with some glitches and missing feature we all know about, but still, I can confidently say that this piece of software is indeed A GAME CHANGER and it will SOON grow on us in every direction. Apple must be busy working on the next update as we speak so let's keep the moral high.

I highly recommend every FCP user to get the X version and start getting used to it. Personally I'm taking the X experience a step further, I'm enjoying it😀

Posted on Jun 23, 2011 3:12 AM

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Jun 23, 2011 4:36 AM in response to Rodrigo Zahr

I consider myself an iMovie expert and a FC wanna be. I have used both for almost 10 years. I honestly do not have "too" much of a problem with the interface as it is so similar to iMovie. I mean when it is not crashing on me it is good, real good. BUT to label this program "Final Cut Pro" is a disservice. They should have named it iMovie Pro charged and $150 for it. Or released as the new Final Cut EXPRESS version then, when they got the majority of bugs out of it, released a real fully functional PRO version.


It kind of reminds me how Apple ruined Quicktime with version X. Thank goodness I can still run 7.x and do all the same things I am accustomed to being able to do. Like runing various exports and play them side by side.


My point is... if you are going to label a product XYZ it had better do everything XYZ did before or have a new way to do the same function. At the minimum it should convert you last version projects to the new version format.

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Jun 23, 2011 5:35 AM in response to Rodrigo Zahr

Mail form Randy Ubillos, the designer of FCP X



"FCP7 projects do not have enough information in them to properly translate to FCPX (in FCP7 all of the clip connections live in the editor's head, not in the timeline). We never expected anyone to switch editing software in the middle of a project, so project migration was not a priority.


Final Cut Pro X 1.0 is the beginning of a road, not the end."

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Jun 25, 2011 4:22 AM in response to FranklyFilm

FranklyFilm wrote:


Mail form Randy Ubillos, the designer of FCP X



"FCP7 projects do not have enough information in them to properly translate to FCPX (in FCP7 all of the clip connections live in the editor's head, not in the timeline). We never expected anyone to switch editing software in the middle of a project, so project migration was not a priority.


Final Cut Pro X 1.0 is the beginning of a road, not the end."

PERHAPS for Randy it is the beginning of a road. A long and windy road searching for a new job !

Perhaps he could join AVID and turn MCP into Pinnacle Pro.


After that he'll be running out of options. As I dont think adobe would take him back.

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Jun 25, 2011 5:58 AM in response to FranklyFilm

FranklyFilm wrote:


Mail form Randy Ubillos, the designer of FCP X



We never expected anyone to switch editing software in the middle of a project, so project migration was not a priority.

Oh they never expected anyone, no one out of the couple million users who use FCP 7, they didn't expect anyone to switch editing software in the middle of a project. I pat randy on the back. Great job randy. Everybody clap for randy.

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Jun 25, 2011 6:30 AM in response to Sticky Pixels

I am sure apple is bring more to the application, maybe the full version will cost more, we paid almost 3 times for Fcp studio, who knows but I don't think that that's it.

I agree with those of you who think apple should have called it Final Cut X leaving the pro adjective for the full version unless apple is planning to give us more for free:-)

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Jun 25, 2011 6:35 AM in response to Rodrigo Zahr

Rodrigo Zahr wrote:


I agree with those of you who think apple should have called it Final Cut X leaving the pro adjective for the full version unless apple is planning to give us more for free:-)

correction: they should've called it iMovie 10.0, as for concerned users FCP as they knew it is officially discontinued.

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Jun 27, 2011 8:06 AM in response to FranklyFilm

"all the clip connections live in the editor's head" - You can't import in and out points based off of time code? ***? What? Even SMOKE can read FCP edits. Premiere can. Avid can. Randy's telling me that FCPX can't?


A "new paradigm in editing" indeed.


Nobody wants to answer the basic analogy here: If Photoshop CS5.5 didn't open up PSD files from any version of Photoshop (which it can, by the way), would people be upset? Yes, this is a huge dealbreaker and a showstopper. This should be classified as a major showstopper bug, in all actuality.

Mail form Randy Ubillos, the designer of FCP X



"FCP7 projects do not have enough information in them to properly translate to FCPX (in FCP7 all of the clip connections live in the editor's head, not in the timeline). We never expected anyone to switch editing software in the middle of a project, so project migration was not a priority.


Final Cut Pro X 1.0 is the beginning of a road, not the end."

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