Use your ratings on the App Store not on the forum

Excellent post.

Perhaps you can explain why negative reviews are being removed then? A bunch of reviews from yesterday, my own included, have mysteriously vanished.

Yes, THANK YOU!

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Yes my review got removed yesterday evening, now it is back online in 2nd place with 34 of 39 users found this helpful.

Sorry, but I'm stunned by your comment. This should be the leading forum on the internet for all things to do with Final Cut, including whether existing users of FCP 7 should actually buy FCP X or not. Removing opinions about whether FCP X delivers a useful benefit or not to potentially 1.3 million users is censorship of the worst kind.

Alerting me to the fact that FCP X does not understand XML files, EDLs, .fcp files, etc, etc, is pretty "constructive" IMHO.

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Tom, you are right that we need to vote on the App Store. However, I think what most people are doing is trying to get answers. Unfortunately, due to what we were lead to believe, we are angry, and there is probably more emotion here than helpful dialog.

But it would be better to get answers first and vote later. If in fact things are not as they appear and there are changes just around the corner or misunderstandings, etc. then we are trying to ask the questions to find out. However, Apple is silent and provides no channel to get those answers.

I'm still waiting to hear from Apple and Canon to see if I can use this product. I don't want to give a bad review without information. However, if after a week is up, I haven't received any news, I will be look at alternatives, refunds, and appropriate reviews.

Unfortunately most of the opinions at the moment are rants and these boards are meant for users to help other users with hardware or software questions. There is, however, the possibility to send feedback to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

BTW, thanks for the post, Tom

You are missing the total purpose of what these discussions are about.

Did you read and agree to the terms of use before you signed?

We are fellow apple users and are here to help others and receive help with the products we use.

It's a typical problem with any new software or hardware by Apple, that quite a few who who are first time posters or who come out of the woodwork appear not to come for help but bash the product and insult not only Apple, but also other users. Constructive criticism, is ok, but calling others idiots that which is now coming a common word on these threads or even despots etc is not free speech.

Great...the forum police are out.

No, I vehemently disagree. If it's a piece of garbage and their are problems, I commend people for speaking up in all public forums.

Apple needs to be accountable and if need be offer refunds. I'm a little gun shy to buy the app myself for a variety of reasons:

1. The user feedback in this forum
2. Not knowing if it will truly support the 1080 60p video from my sony HDR-CX560V
3. iMovie having issues importing and editing H.264 content (it desaturates it when edited, and oversaturates it on export).
4. Gamma bug with h.264 video in quicktime
5. Final Cut Express being a piece of garbage (crashes, lack of support, etc.)
6. Aperture being buggy, slow, crashes, etc. - I switched to lightroom
7. Premiere Pro CS5.5 has a trial version and I know that works with my file formats
8. The money

So speak up FCPX users! We want to here from you!

Tom Wolsky wrote:

.... You may have noticed that the current app rating is at three,...

in the German AppStore it's a 2.7 ....-

and, according to the MAS Statistics, only 69x rated ....-

but hundreds complain ......

btw: there IS an option to use a 2nd monitor, to display Viewer and Events (or whatever nomenclatura 😉 )

THANKS, Tom, for your initial post!

I am convinced that Apple is having their employees rate the app a 5 to keep it from getting an overall 1 star rating. Read the comments of the people giving it 5 stars and you will see that they aren't using it yet. Their just posting how excited they are that Apple made it available.

Reviews being Removed????

Some dont even get posted because they dont pass review.

My buddy wrote a review (He uses FCP7 Professionally and was highly disappointed) and it was never published as it never came pass the review!!!

Anyone taking the App Store Reviews serious needs to wake up.

China is less sensored than the App Store

Tom Wolsky wrote:

There is zero point in ranting here. It wastes space and time, yours and ours.

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