FCPX is incredible, but...
Final Cut Pro X is really an incredible video editing applicaition and one of my favorite apps on the Mac. I would love to see an iPad version or even an iPad complement app from Apple, such as a control surface for FCPX like it has for Logic Pro. My only complaint is that FCPX crashes constantly. It sends a crash report to Apple each time so I assume they know the frequency and the general cause of the crashes, and it has been crashing for several years over several major updates. It is running on the latest and most robust Apple hardware and everything is kept up to date. Given the amount of time required in video editing and that it is a critical part of my job it is hard to overlook the fact that even with autosave and other safeguards to prevent data loss, it is still costly to have the application crash so frequently. That alone is the reason I rate FCPX three stars rather than five and it frustrates me to rate it that way because I genuinely love the application. It seems there has been a trend with Apple over the last several years that OSs and applications just don’t seem as solid and reliable as they used to. That last comment is just an opinion, but the frequent crashes are not. They are real and they are a problem that should have been resolved long ago. I’ve used Premiere Pro and don’t like it nearly as much as FCPX, it feels antiquated in comparison, but I am starting to reconsider my video editing app of choice because it is costing too much time and anxiety.
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