So while a lot of the comments and complaints I've read are valid, I think were seeing a classic case of the whining of the vocal minority here. I mean, does the majority of the people who use FCP professionally really use all the features that are missing on a daily basis. Probably not.
Ill bet you if you found a way to poll all of the people who use FCP on a daily or regular basis and asked them how many of them regularly require the ability to import/export OMFs, XMLs or EDLs or, youd get an insanely low percentage of people. Yes, it should be there if this is to be considered a pro app
but I think all this hubbub is a little disproportionate to the amount of people whod actually benefit from the inclusion of some of these features off the bat.
Theyll show up. But in the meantime lets not forget all the things this new version does infinitely better than the old FCP. I mean, a 12 core mac pro can damn near run a NASA mission by itself but couldnt render a line of generated text over a layer of video
this was a big problem.
This was a thing I and a lot of editors use on a regular basis (and not XML exporting). Its now fixed, along with a host of other nips and tucks that make this program really fly and actually put to use all the money people spent on their decked out macs - but for some reason people hate on the new version?!? I don't get it.
No native RED support, or opening old FCP projects are both huge oversights I think, and certainly should have been there from day one. The lack of multicam is troubling, Ill admit that, but again.. most people who use FCP dont need that feature regularly... yeah I've read a few posts here about people who work on multicam shoots regularly but you can't be serious if you think YOUR workflow is the most common one out there.
I cant say with certainty but Id imagine Apple did some sort of polling to find out what most of their users use on a regular basis and concentrated on porting that to FCPX first. And I (and just about everyone else I know) gave up hope on DVDSP long long ago (and moved on to Encore) so the whole non inclusion of that is a wash really. At least you can find the BluRay export option directly in FCP... thats a step in the right direction.
I say, lets see this for what it is: a radically new paradigm for editing that finally brings the software up to the level of the hardware. I've been poking around in it for a few hours now and this thing zings. Granted I'm on a spankin new SSD drive iMac with maxed out specs

, but still... It finally lets me use my hardware in a respectable way. I read a post a few pages back about how the range based keywording is the feature at the crux of the paradigm shift with how you manage your media and I couldn't agree more. Help me sort and manage whats in the content of the video I shot, not where its located on my hard drive.
Its got some growing pains, but itll be enhanced and added to. And once 3rd party plugin support (a feature that just because of the whole 32>64 bit thing I never thought would be present anyway) comes in
and a few glaring omissions get added, people will forget about all this whining.
Plus, for every single gripe you or anyone can give me, I can give you a counter point for a new feature thats better or makes my work easier than in FCP7. So simmadown everyone.