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Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Compressor and Motion With Reliability Improvements, Bug Fixes
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So let me see you are basing your facts on your own personal experience? While that is good for your own sphere of influence Apple and Avid operate in the realm of economic fact:
1) Apple has made more money off of FCPX then it ever did any other editing software. They count more buyers then FCP7 obviously helped by a lower price tag
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/67764
2) Avid has been struggling to keep afloat with loses year over year and as previous poster mentioned they were delisted which is huge.
3) Adobe is a mixed bag but they upset a lot of people by going to subscription model (including graphic designers in my company) http://fortune.com/2014/06/18/for-adobe-cloud-traction-leads-to-record-high-stock-price/
Their sales have been dropping quarter by quarter but now they make more profit by shifting to subscription model.
Now to get back to personal experience, I like most people who studied film, studied on Avid, but was not able to afford any of it after college (2004). When I finally had the money almost 7 years later for making it a hobby, I tried Avid since that was what I was familiar with but it by far the most restrictive and clunky user experience with a myriad more operability issues. I refused to pay Adobe a king's ransom for CS as I never liked Photoshop that much and had no familiarity with their NLE. A friend let me have his unused copy of Final Cut Express and I liked it but felt limited by single core threaded and lack of hardware acceleration for my model mac. With a suitable deal I was able to pick up FCPX and Motion for 50 less than 299 and I am glad I made the investment. For my purposes and the vast majority of users out there it puts the power to create in people's hands.
So instead of judging a software by hearsay and biased opinion, you should try it first (the current version not the 10.0.0)
Or if it read: "FCP X Scrapped and Replaced with FCP 8, Based on FCP 7, is Once Again Actually Good"
I am surprised that so many people think serious editors would drop their working FCP7 workflow mid-production to switch to some .0 version. Most of the outrage was about home users, perhaps doing wedding videos, who might be foolish enough to upgrade on a whim.
I asked our in-house editors about it in the middle of all that noise that surrounded the FCP X launch. They said they had read about FCP X and might consider it at some point but that any upgrade was at least a year out and then only would they upgrade some booths when they were starting new project.
In other words, when most serious production houses would be ready to upgrade to FCP X a lot of the initial complaints had already been addressed in subsequent updates.
I asked our in-house editors about it in the middle of all that noise that surrounded the FCP X launch. They said they had read about FCP X and might consider it at some point but that any upgrade was at least a year out and then only would they upgrade some booths when they were starting new project.
In other words, when most serious production houses would be ready to upgrade to FCP X a lot of the initial complaints had already been addressed in subsequent updates.
I am guessing you have not personally used Avid before.
I graduated film school. Learned Avid in school, made a business case to bring in Premiere, learned it.
Upon graduation, with my paying jobs I've chosen to use FCPX.
Facts.
Let me know when you find a real paying job that uses FCPX.
Sales
So Apple sold a million seats of FCPx to amateur editors ....
Right!
And sure Avid and Premiers have collaboration features but for Premiere it cost thousands of dollars and needs dedicated hardware. Not for smaller productions house at all.
Get the facts.
So Apple sold a million seats of FCPx to amateur editors ....
Right!
And sure Avid and Premiers have collaboration features but for Premiere it cost thousands of dollars and needs dedicated hardware. Not for smaller productions house at all.
Get the facts.
Welcome to the forums.
Actually not trolling. At all. As one who has been on here since 2002, there truly was a time when that post would have warranted a lot more feedback. The comment was a joke (you clearly missed) highlight how things change. I'm not a "get off my lawn" curmudgeon. Perfectly content with change and where Apple has been and going.