Looking for advice from those that have made the transition and stayed or gone back. Current workflow: DVD creation with FCP 7, Affinity Photo for Menus, DVD Studio Pro 4, and Compressor 4.2.1.
Final Cut Pro X, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Briefly…
Pros: A wider range of modern codecs and formats; multi cam; key word (data-based) organization flexibility; speed (workflow and processing – optimized for newish Macs); Titling (Motion projects).
Cons: Limited audio editing (compared to STP); limited interoperability with Motion (no Send-to-Motion); very basic tape capture; very basic DVD and BD capability.
Since you use DVDSP for disk authoring, I suggest that if you make the change, maintain a separate bootable volume for DVDSP (and the rest of the suite) on your current OS. Each time a new version of OS X is released, it seems that something in FCS falls by the wayside…
Good luck.
Russ
Thanks Russ
Russ seems to have done a fine summation.
I'd like to add that one of the bigger obstacles to learning FCP X is trying to apply the legacy FCPro methods.
Start learning with a fresh new approach.
Al
Pros and Cons to leaving FCP 7 for X...
