This is Pro Software Now. Period.

First, I’m a small production house which uses FCPX to produce wedding, corporate, and other films. I was slowly forced into using FCPX (before that I was a FCP7 and Premiere CS6 user) because it is literally the fastest workflow available. Even exporting is much faster. I have also used Davinci Resolve, which is beautiful but simply about twice as slow as FCPX. FCPX has slowly become invaluable to me as I try to catch up on deadlines, and this new version is even better. They didn’t do anything gimmicky or add features just to create a buzz (although they have queitly added some), they straight up added workflow improvements such as Audio Lanes, improvements to Roles, more customizable workspace and saving effects presets. There are a lot of add-ons you can add to FCPX but as a minimalist who wants to spend all my time editing, colour grading and focusing on the emotion of my story, FCPX really does the trick. Amazing piece of software, finally on par with my other favourite Apple software, Motion. Well done, FCPX team. Can’t wait to see what’s next.

The 10.3.1 update is mostly bug fixes. This is a phenomenally well designed, streamlined app which really helps you forget that you are using software and focus on creating content.

moosefuel about Final Cut Pro, v10.3.1