FAQ is mixture of good and bad news for users of the software.
Apple unveiled the new Final Cut Pro X software last week, the successor to Final Cut Pro 7. The new version was built from the ground up and fundamentally changed some details about the program. The response from some professional users was very negative, as they felt the software is inferior to Final Cut Pro 7.
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Now I see why they were so pissed off. It almost sounds like apple is taking tips from mozilla. "Eh that old feature that you've been using for years? You don't need that anymore. Oh we're not going to replace it because you won't miss it anyway."
It has always been a crap program. The fact that it was used for some big movies that didn't win any awards for editing proves nothing; it is still targeted to the home market, not to professionals. This is strongly reinforced by the lack of support for just about EVERYTHING that professionals use, even the things that professionals with amateur skills were using with this suite in the past don't work anymore!
Originally posted by KillerBug: It has always been a crap program. The fact that it was used for some big movies that didn't win any awards for editing proves nothing; it is still targeted to the home market, not to professionals. This is strongly reinforced by the lack of support for just about EVERYTHING that professionals use, even the things that professionals with amateur skills were using with this suite in the past don't work anymore!
Final Cut Pro X is definitely targeted more at the home/prosumer market, but the previous versions weren't so much, that's why it captured almost half of the professional market within a few years. Btw, being nominated for an Academy Award is a big deal to the people doing the editing, not the software, my point was to emphasize that past versions of the software have been used in huge productions, whereas Final Cut Pro X is not impressing the pros that use Final Cut Pro 7.
And how is anyone surprised of Apple not honoring backward compatibility? As far as I know, in OSX you can't multitask with OS9 apps, it starts a OS9 subsystem to run them. That said, everything said. :P
