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‘professionals’ in the industry only use PCs ? When you come to a forum at least speak sense otherwise it devalues the debate.
I never wrote that, though, did I?

You said:
Why can’t most professionals use Final Cut Pro? That’s a false statement
And I was calling you out as being wrong yourself. There are, of course, some professionals who use PCs. Those people cannot use FCP since it is only available on a Mac.

So, I'll let you go back to your word salad, my friend, but if you're going to call people out for making a "false statement", you're going to get called on that in turn.
 
Kind of lost faith in Adobe after horrific customer support and the fact that my wife after shooting a wedding has to wait 3+ hours to import her photos from only 3 sd cards in Lightroom when 3 even larger cards in fcpx takes roughly 45 minutes. Pathetic.

thats an issue with the OSX version of Premier Pro ... and Apples insistance of using that lump of crud quicktime converter. I have dropped in 190GB of cards into both OSX and Windoes versions .... lets say the not needing to convert is far faster, we can probabally blame both Adobe and Apple for that one.

Why can’t most professionals use Final Cut Pro? That’s a false statement

because MANY features we have needed when it FIRST came out are still not there , and it still lags FAR FAR behind Premier and Avid in many professional production environments, mine included. One company I sub contract / freelance with just dumped 5 MILLION dollars worth of Mac Pro's and their software seats to replace with Avid / Premier Pro to regain a competitive edge in their particular field.
 
thats an issue with the OSX version of Premier Pro ... and Apples insistance of using that lump of crud quicktime converter. I have dropped in 190GB of cards into both OSX and Windoes versions .... lets say the not needing to convert is far faster, we can probabally blame both Adobe and Apple for that one.



because MANY features we have needed when it FIRST came out are still not there , and it still lags FAR FAR behind Premier and Avid in many professional production environments, mine included. One company I sub contract / freelance with just dumped 5 MILLION dollars worth of Mac Pro's and their software seats to replace with Avid / Premier Pro to regain a competitive edge in their particular field.
Curious.. what are these MANY omitted features you talk of? I have edited prime time network shows with a viewer base of 5 mill and Fcp x runs circles around premier and avid.
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I never wrote that, though, did I?

You said:

And I was calling you out as being wrong yourself. There are, of course, some professionals who use PCs. Those people cannot use FCP since it is only available on a Mac.

So, I'll let you go back to your word salad, my friend, but if you're going to call people out for making a "false statement", you're going to get called on that in turn.
So what if It’s only on a Mac. Buy a Mac then. Your ‘point’ makes no sense.
 
Curious.. what are these MANY omitted features you talk of? I have edited prime time network shows with a viewer base of 5 mill and Fcp x runs circles around premier and avid.
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So what if It’s only on a Mac. Buy a Mac then. Your ‘point’ makes no sense.


I’d like to know about the many missing features as well...
 
I’d like to know about the many missing features as well...
I'm not worried about those missing features. FCPX just goes right on working for me. My monthly subscription is up to, lets see here....after taxes and miscellaneous fees $0. Perfect. And login server issues haven't been a problem since - ever because FCP doesn't use them.

Yeah, I can manage.
 
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Curious.. what are these MANY omitted features you talk of? I have edited prime time network shows with a viewer base of 5 mill and Fcp x runs circles around premier and avid.

admittedly I have not reinstalled it in about 9 months now but my basic list

Timeline scrolls behind a stationary Playhead . still clunky
GOOD multimonitor support ... HORRID especially when your used to a 3-5 screen rig
A better dedicated keyframe editor
Effects browser is cluttered and annoying, far too much scroling and no good quick search or lock in hot keys
improved media management
kill dependency of quicktime and needing to transcode raw video at all.
update the ProRes support once again, it needs more help and some better stability
drag effects right from the panel onto frames or clips, I find it takes far too many steps
have 2 or 3 or more timelines viewable AND usable at the same time.
and my main one ... able to directly link with third party applications better. especially for color corrections, pulling in 3d renderings or animations without all the transcode work, just drag it and drop it from one application to the other this alone saves me about 20 hours a week.

You and I must be in the same areas now and then... I don't do as much for prime time anymore, mostly moved to movies and special effects the last 4 years.
 
If you have a capable Mac/windows, get Davinci Resolve 14 or 15. You can't get better than that in $0.
 
admittedly I have not reinstalled it in about 9 months now but my basic list

Timeline scrolls behind a stationary Playhead . still clunky
GOOD multimonitor support ... HORRID especially when your used to a 3-5 screen rig
A better dedicated keyframe editor
Effects browser is cluttered and annoying, far too much scroling and no good quick search or lock in hot keys
improved media management
kill dependency of quicktime and needing to transcode raw video at all.
update the ProRes support once again, it needs more help and some better stability
drag effects right from the panel onto frames or clips, I find it takes far too many steps
have 2 or 3 or more timelines viewable AND usable at the same time.
and my main one ... able to directly link with third party applications better. especially for color corrections, pulling in 3d renderings or animations without all the transcode work, just drag it and drop it from one application to the other this alone saves me about 20 hours a week.

You and I must be in the same areas now and then... I don't do as much for prime time anymore, mostly moved to movies and special effects the last 4 years.

i Won’t go though point for point for time, but a lot of what u say isn’t relevant anymore if indeed it ever was. There’s a reason why Hollywood production is starting to embrace it again. I guarantee if you put a premier pro editor of equal experience as an fcpx editor and give them both the same rushes to cut, the final product will be finished in half the time on fcpx and with higher quality results.
 
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