A disaster

In an effort to modernize, I made the mistake of trying this instead of my usual workhorse, the predecessor Final Cut Pro 7.0.3. What a mistake. First it obliterated FCP 7, every element, effect, setting had to be rebuilt from scratch once I figureed out how to uninstall FCPX. That was just trying to recover. OK, I wasted almost 2 weeks on FCPX. I do very precise, synchronized multi-camera edits. Every correction, every tweak knocked things out of sync. It took 6 more edits to try to get it back into sync. The basic tools for precision are absent, replaced with etherial tools that make me guess what it will do. If you are doing simplistic edits and want a system that is idiot proofed, go ahead and use FCPX. Its designed for the simple world. It has no place in the professional world. Its content is not backwards compatible with FCP7. It leaves residual, low quality proxy copy clutter all over my drives in folders it creates on its own and tries to hide (but watch your disk storage increase). Where does that come from? Like any program currently on the market, it can’t handle full resolution 4K raw content. It fakes you out by making the proxy copy. As you are loading content, it is making the secret copies. While you are thinking, gee, my computer is really running slow, what is causing it is FCPX taking all the resources to make those copies. Its a cheat. And when you compare the simple output quality of your finished product vs the raw, you’ll see the quality is vastly different. The clients notice it too. It reminded me of the crappy codecs Avid would pass off as professional quality. So no I don’t recommend Avid, but I surely do not recommend FCPX. Apple should admit thei mistake on this product and reissue FCP7, or better yet, upgrade their own far superior product. FCP 8, what a concept. I’ve been waiting almost 5 years, they won’t get the message. The only way we can hope is to not encourage their ego, greed and stupidity. . . DO NOT BUY FCPX

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