Re: FCP X - 15 films/5 days/clunkety clunk!

If Apple had come out with FCPX, a total immediate improvement over FCP7, but with new hardware requirements, you wouldn't be seeing so many companies jumping ship. Upgrades in software often require upgrades in hardware. That isn't the problem here.

The issue with the FCPX rollout was that Apple killed an older program without providing anything suitable to replace it. The fact that FCPX "might" in a year, or two, or three (or never,) be capable of replacing FCP7 is not sufficient. This was not the case with Adobe.

Yes, Adobe EOL'd Premiere when they brought out PPro. The difference was that it was worth it. If you had invested in PPro version 1, your workflow would have been improved over Premiere 6.5 on the day you took off the shrink wrap.

So no, it doesn't sound familiar at all.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions