Editor Walter Murch is feeling better about Final Cut Pro X

wouldn't mind an update though..heard there was one coming...any idea when or is it here?

Thanks

I agree with Yuusharo - when OS X 10.0 was released in the OS 9 days, it was terrible and everyone hated it. But look at OS X today 10 years later.

I've been a defender of FCPX. Yes, it lacks a lot of professional features, and it's inability to manually relink media is a fundamentally flawed and show-stopping problem for a lot of professional and even prosumer workflows. Still, most of the major complaints can be fixed with a major upgrade in a few months, and features will be added back with time.

A clean break from the past had to be made at some point. There was no way the old FCP code could have been moved up to become a modern application. The only real solution was to rewrite from scratch, with both support for modern frameworks that take advantage of every ounce of power in your system, and a new UI that sports a whole new metaphor on how one approaches video editing at a fundamental level. We all laugh and scoff FCPX today, but I have a hunch that 5 years from now Adobe and Avid will be struggling to keep up with their own imitations of FCPX's UI, while Apple has had a head start on building on top the foundation they set with FCPX.

It's not Insanely Great today, but I think we'll all be surprised in a few years with what it will be capable of doing with such a simple interface that anyone can pick up and learn.

Cant wait for part 2, a very well balanced viewpoint on whats become a very touchy subject

"its friendly interface makes it easy for students and new users to develop video editing skills"

Editing wasn't difficult on real NLEs either. People forget that Final Cut Pro's UI has always sucked. FCP X cleaned it up considerably, but then made basic editing nearly impossible by trying to guess what you want to do. Apple and FCP X also mess up new editors by using incorrect terms for things, like "events." Events are the snippets of video in the timeline, as they have been in NLEs since their inception. Clips are the full blob of footage in the bin (which events point to).

Complaining that FCP X isn't usable by professionals begs the response, "Duh. Apple doesn't care about professionals." But Apple should be derided for using incorrect terms and needlessly confusing users who might someday move up to a proper editing system. The existing terminology and basic workflow are easily understood by novices; there was no need to obfuscate them.

That's great. One person in the world likes it. Cooooooooooool.

That still doesn't make it a good product.