To say the least. I completly lost trust in Apple. I mean, they can come up with what ever they want without telling you in advance.
Who says FCP 7 will run under the Tiger? What am I going to do with all my projects? I work at a TV station and we have to go and check files made 3 years ago.
As we speak, one of the TV channels I mange just changed their logo, So I spent 4 month going back to every single promo to replace the logo as well the voice over, for that I need to open the original FCP document where the music, voice over and effects are in different tracks.
If I had FCP X I would have to import the final promo and RE CREATE the entire soundtrack. Having the original FCP file take me an hour to do so, replacing in FCP X can take days, imagine... I would have to find the original tapes.
And that is just one silly scenario.
But is Apple arrogance the actual problem. They got FCP to capture a market, then they stopped the development because "it was too buggy".
Now they want to re invent the wheel with FCP X, what they want is to sell the "modules", literally wash their hands of the development, they want to offer the core.
But the big issue is... we are falling into a marketing experiment! EXPERIEMENT that, as you can see, started with the wrong foot already.
Apple will have to start negotiations and licenses, that may take ages or many no even happen for most of the developers. Probably FCP X will die or people will end up asking for features that where present in FCP 7 that no other developers are willing to create for a low margin.
I mean... you want to do "business" with someone who is not reliable who already framed you and has a reputation of being arrogant and "emotional epileptic" (they can come up with any idea at any time without consulting you).
Would you hired that person even is a great graphic designer? Or would you go for someone more dedicated, focused, reliable that can do the job just fine?
I am going for Adobe Premiere or Avid by the end of the year. If Final Cut X works I may get it BY THE END OF 2012.
I will get a copy for me LATER ON, probably early 2012, but I will never change all the post production suites I have, not for crazy unreliable developers.
As an editor we are more humble than people believe, we just wanted FCP 7 to use all cores and communicate with Compressor just fine because when Compressor uses QMaster FCP 7 can not communicate. We just wanted those twicks, better audio tools (NO HAVING A PINK HANDLE OVER A GRAY WAVEFORM, IS A NIGHTMARE TO READ IT). And probably real tome communication with Soundtrack or at least incorporate Soundtrack tools into FCP 7.
That is it, we never asked for "electromagnetic timelines" for "interstellar productions".
Sorry Apple, no excuses, you are an ground up with resources and you just showed a bad legitimated face. Is like dating a pretty girl who is just that A PRETTY GIRL to show of, but not for marriage, she is lazy and still bad in bed.
There are issues of form and bottom , Apple can argue the form, but the bottom line is clear: you are risking your assets into an unreliable video post production software developer.
Today is us, in 3 to 5 years will be the kids who are entering into video post production today. I have been in this media for 22 years now, since the Video Toaster and Atari ST. I have seen systems rise and fell and here I see that pattern. When Apple realized how complex the EXPERIMENT is, they will drop it and start something new with "quantum mechanical timelines".
That is all I have to say.
