Clam Down...Apple says missing features coming soon.

206 5 star ratings??

HA! Proficient use of FCPX:

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000029461

think about this everyone... Apple just released FCP X this week right before Lion debuts officially. Apple wouldn't just throw FCP X out there just for the heck of it. Thi sedition of FCP could be better in Lion since that is what Apple will be releasing next month. Something to think about.

No - the point of the discussion isn't about how FCPX will work with Lion. The point of the discussion is how FCPX will not work within our professional workflows.

It doesn't matter how much better FCPX will work in Lion because the core foundation of FCPX is based on iMovie with its intended demographic targeted towards amateur/prosumers at best.

However, as the CNBC news clip showed, I'm sure FCPX on Lion will be wonderful for editing home videos of your daughter's little league baseball games:

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000029461

I understand what you are saying but think about it, FCP X is based on LION it will be updated in Lion and will work better for you all.

You are correct - and that CNBC video gave me the creeps. Yikes.

So when I launch it with Lion it will suddenly be a completely different program that actually works in a post environment? AWESOME.

It's kind of like building an iPod Touch and releasing it as an iPhone 5. You can do almost as much on it, except make phone calls.

Yay iPod Touch Pro!

i never thought i'd say this but 'I WANT THE 3 WAY COLOR CORRECTION BACK!!!' and it was CR@P

no keyframing on color!!!! only a hue and saturation filter.. help says use a cross fade, not that is really pro!

soooooo laaammmeeeee, booooooo..

i guess i'll have to wait 6 months for a third party 😟

mjsjr wrote:

Can't import your 32 bit project (FCP7) into 64 bit FCPX? You can't do that in Premiere either.

Yes, but you can import an XML from Final Cut Pro 7 into Premiere, which you can't do with FCP X. Sounds like maybe we will be able to in the future, and that hopefully means FCP 7 will still open so we can export the XML (unless someone can make a 3rd party program that opens old FCP projects and exports XML).

And honestly I don't think Apple would mind only selling to consumers, after all they did kill the Xserve (Though the new MacPro has rumors of being Rack Mountable), which makes me think they like the low end that sells more, more than they like the high end.

I have not returned FCP X though, and I will try to learn, but what I have learned so far disturbs me and makes me worry (the Magnetic Timeline alone is enough to make me think this was never meant to be profesional, as not having fixed tracks to be able to organzie is a huge no no in almost any proffesional environment), but I am getting Premiere 5.5 and am considering Media Composer 5.5. as well.

oliver10.0 wrote:

i never thought i'd say this but 'I WANT THE 3 WAY COLOR CORRECTION BACK!!!' and it was CR@P

no keyframing on color!!!! only a hue and saturation filter.. help says use a cross fade, not that is really pro!

soooooo laaammmeeeee, booooooo..

i guess i'll have to wait 6 months for a third party 😟

OK - I'm as unhappy with FCPX as most people (in fact I've deleted it from my system) but I think you need to look closer at the colour corrector before spreading these rumours.

You CAN keyframe colour changes and you CAN add (multiple) secondaries (also custom shapes and key framing too). You just need to look for the small buttons hidden all over the place!

Consumers, prosumers, wanna be editor's, call them what you will, the reason why they bought a MAC is they heard that "all the PROS" work on them to make music and videos. Until when?

Now this goes back in the other direction - no FCP 7.5 or 8, perhaps no Logic upgrade either?

The world does not care about cozy dashboards in small little cars....it's still about spacehips and big things that we dream about... Apple had this excitement....pro products...the all mighty G5, the 12 Core Mac Pro....ultimate warp drive interstellar firepower... ipads and ipods are nice and fun... but I hope Apple deploys resources for enabling creativity, for people who do not want to do anything else (you can call them Pros).

Watching movies on ipads etc....that's not creative... that's not where the brain effort should be at.

Guys, I feel the pain in your film makers community by reading this. I am an audio producer, and understand that changing major things like that, overnight is indeed a nightmare - a threat and a slap in one.

Final X would be great as an iMovie update for prosumers who want a bit more - why not? But giving people the impression that FCP 7 is no longer being developed, no FCP 8? no upgrades?

These people (YOU people) invested in a promise that FCP will be supported in the future. They bought computers and other Apple products to be on board with "the program".

And we're not talking about 25 people here. Thousands of thousands of "workers" are affected, in the US alone, I am pretty sure.

Advising a quick press release that FCP will be supported throughout 2014, with minor upgrades being released.

Advising that Final Cut Pro X (eX not 10 please) is being offered to FCP 7 clients for free. Convince the change, don't force it.

Advising that Apple acknowledges shortcomings of X and releases time line of improvements.

Advising removal of "Pro" to Final Cut X.

Note. Loved iMovie from the get-go for Timothy's party stuff, tried FCP X. X is way slower, and stutters compared to iMovie. There's something laggy / buggy about it - on the same computer (latest gen 2011 Mac Book pro 2.3 Ghz Quad Core MBP). Logic and Apple effects show up with GUI, meters and all, but doesn't show anything while sound playing - strange. Occasional Clicks and Pops.

woah...Little Timmy's party - exactly..and who cares? no one watches these videos...i'm here in LA with a Flip Mino recorder uploading beach vids to my parents in Europe. They see me 1 x a year - and still don't care about these videos. "Shaky, boring....just call us and let's talk".. LOL...