Final Cut Pro X review: Apple Pissed Off 5,000 Pros to Please 5M Amateurs
The title of this post is a tweet by Daniel Jalkut, of Red Sweater Software. Last week Apple released it’s long awaited Final Cut Pro X. The release has film editing Hollywood and broadcast pros (like the video editors at Conan O’brien) taking to the streets with pitch forks. Daniel’s tweet (Final Cut Pro X review: Apple will happily piss off 5,000 professionals to please 5,000,000 amateurs) says it all. The Hollywood film editors that have been using the previous version of Final Cut Pro are pissed because of everything that has been left out but users like me, formally a iMovie user, think FCP X is the greatest thing since sliced bread. What’s going on here? How could Apple make such a mistake? Speculations are all over the map.
This all has the Hollywood and broadcast video editors looking at Adobe Premere Pro, Avid or sticking with the old version of FCP until Apple adds back the currently missing features into FCP X they need. Yet most of the video editors that are not creating feature films and TV programs see FCP X as everything they need: fast, the next step beyond iMovie and easy to learn.
Christian Fitzpatrick, the “president of PlatiumHd.TV production” says, “What I love about it is it’s speed. This is a program that takes advantage of every skerrick of power that modern Macs have. I’ve already cut a couple of vids in there and Wow! it is so quick, it’s rather unbelievable.”