TECH TALK: Final Cut Pro X (Some other editor's thoughts)

I found an interesting blogpost about the upcoming FCPX. Check it out if you like. Link. (It might redirect you to your country's Gizmodo. Just change it to US and you'll find the post)

Here some keypoints, that I like to point out:

"…instead of fixing them, they just decided to change everything."

"This all seems well and good, except it's completely unimportant for professional editors who aren't finishing in Final Cut. Some of us color correct in a da Vinci with a professional colorist and then conform in a Flame. Steinauer's point proves the underlying key of FCPX: that it really isn't for professional editors."

"The biggest, most apparent change is the absence of the source monitor: it's the iMovie-ing of non-linear editing."

"Editing, for me, is still where the magic is. It's one thing to make changes for the sake of the people you claim are your clients and quite another to make changes for the sake of people who aren't. That's what these changes are, they are changes for the sake of making editing more accessible, not more functional."

Edit: Here is another interesting blogpost. Link.

"Apple is approaching other markets with FCP X, chiefly photographers. Adobe and Apple beat each-other up for these users, as the pro-sumer photography market is huge and growing by the day....Apple sees the future and it's got the software to lead these users into a new area where the lines clearly blur from editor, to photographer, to the two-guy shop speeding through web productions. "