Really want to love this more than I do.

I’ve been using FCP X for a few years now and I’ve never completely fallen in love with it. FCPX is like that girlfriend or boyfriend you’ve stayed with because most of the time they’re ok, and they mean well. And you’ve just put too much time into the relationship to leave them. The hard truth you’ve been trying to avoid is that they’re just slowing you down.

I’m a full time editor that creates sizzle reels containing plenty of quick cuts timed to music. If you do simple straight forward edits like Vlogs, interviews, etc. this is a great tool to fly quickly though your edits. On the other hand for more cut intensive edits with more than 1 layer of video things in the speed department go downhill FAST. Or really rather slowly. Throw a basic text layer in there and all of sudden all hell breaks loose and playback chokes. This is on a fully loaded 2015 5K Retina iMac, with all files transcoded to ProRes on an external thunderbolt RAID drive clocked at over 800 MB/s. And as of the last update, certain tracks of audio will just drop out intermitently during playback. Speed is paramount to me with my work, and too many times the slowness of FCPX gets in the way of creativity.

I give FCPX 3 stars because I feel overall it still performs on an average level. I want to love this program so much because I’m an Apple fanboy at heart but FCPX has just left me dissapointed.

Athunder about Final Cut Pro