Re: my guess to what will happen to the suite

[Stephan Walfridsson] "they have fallen so far behind both AE on the low end and Nuke on the high end that it would take a lot of money, sweat and a miracle to catch up."

Agreed... Much of Motion will be integrated into FCPX. If people can do basic motion graphics work without leaving FCP, ala Discreet, that is all Apple can do to ward off AE. Motion will never be AE, so make it work inside FCPX where it can help do basic stuff that can't be done in FCP7's horrific effects GUI.

Compressor can be shown the door IMHO, and with 64bit memory and Grand Central, there's no reason why compression can't be done in the background as long as it's effectively "sandboxed".

The danger of all this background processing is it can bring down the whole app. Hopefully these separate processes will work much like Log & Transfer does now in FCP7.