Apple posts Final Cut Pro X FAQ

Seriously, the problem is the fact that Apple are selling this along with Motion and Compressor as a direct replacement of Final Cut Studio. It's not ready to take over the reigns, and that is what's irritating the professional users.
It has some great new features and looks like it may, in the future, be something special. At the moment though, it's a bit half-baked, and Apple's attitude doesn't seem to have helped one bit (remaining tight-lipped until just yesterday, discontinuing support for FCS). I've received my refund, and will stick with Final Cut Studio as a genuine professional-level post-production suite until:
a) FCP X is ready to completely replace it, or
b) I've become proficient with AVID and Pro Tools.

Being Apple fanboyish about this and verbally attacking the professionals whose livelihood has been affected by Apple's complacency isn't particularly constructive.

Oh, for god sake. Because everyone in pro community is still whining, even after with this FAQ, I'll shout:

SHUT UP, AND STOP WHINING ABOUT LACK OF SOME FEATURES. Final Cut Pro X, in my mind, is video editing in professional industry done right. Other softwares, such as Avid Media Composer, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is powerful but one key important feature is missing from those two apps: Simplicity. Apple took the simplicity of iMovie, and merged it with powerful feature of Final Cut Pro, and as result, we have app that is breakthrough, never been done before in professional industry.

One thing I get whenever I try to teach my friends on video editing is how complicated the interface is, and I agree. Final Cut Pro X, the interface is so easy that even people who just hopped onboard the professional video industry can learn with just few clicks. As for lack of hardware support on Final Cut Pro X, all those things are now obsolete, in fact, it's been obsolete for years. We are living in mobile age, and this is where iCloud come in. No need to carry tapes or discs, or hard drive. Access everything via cloud.

Final Cut Pro X, is the future of professional video editing, and Apple has done excellent job.

I'm with Ian Betteridge. For crying out loud, just keep selling/supporting the old one for a year or two; it won't be like Windows XP's lingering death if the new FCPX is quickly upgraded as promised. Making a standalone "it'll do it as good as possible given the differences of video editing approaches" project converter would help, too. If there's "Compressor" why not "Converter"?

The lack of support for the previous format blows me away. It's absolutely impossible to read and translate the old file format? For a program that does the same kind of work? Please. Even if there were features in the old one that the new one didn't support it could still import what it could and pop up a note saying what wasn't handled, like when iPhoto decides it can't import all the photos from my phone. (Image Capture to the rescue! btw.)

Their answer to where your scratch/render files go is really unacceptable. To say you control where they go by putting them into the project (presumably a bundle) itself might be convenient for moving projects between computers, but for large Mac Pro setups with separate spindles for scratch and projects, it's useless. Once I've encoded and delivered, I don't want my renders sitting around taking up space. I don't need them. If I ever do, big whoop, I'll re-render. This is a non-starter for me and will continue to be until they fix it. Really, how many professionals think portability from machine to machine is more important than controlling disk usage?

So we CAN export to OMF! We just have to drop another $500 on an external software package to do it. Gee, thanks, Apple.

Daring Fireball linked to an article by Ian Betteridge (http://www.technovia.co.uk/2011/06/how-apple-could-fix-final-cut-pro-x-in-187-words.html) that nicely addresses what Apple could and should do in order to avoid continuing to throw petrol on the fire they started. Basically, they need to continue to both sell and support Final Cut Pro 7 until such time that Final Cut Pro X becomes "fit for purpose" for the professional industry. It's either that or simply admit that they don't want the professional video editing business and advise such customers to migrate to Adobe or Avid.

An FAQ, while providing information on the future, isn't much use for the now.