Re: I guess it's So Long and Thanks for all the Fish!

[Herb Sevush] "My point was the DSLR's had huge negatives but provided a product I either couldn't get, or couldn't afford to get any other way. What product is FCPX providing that you can't get with PPro?"

Right now, as "v1", not a ton of things. Hyper fast organization. Hyper fast effects without retooling my existing hardware too much, a weird but decent color corrector. And as I play with it more, really fast editing. Right there, those are the very basics of an NLE, just like a DSLR is the very basics of what you need from a video camera. If I remember correctly, you don't own FCPX, right?

[Herb Sevush] "Most editors don't switch NLEs as effortlessly as DPs switch cameras and therefore the usefulness of a niche product that might be faster with limited functionality is much less."

True, very true. The camera market is way more fragmented than the NLE software market, and this is a relatively new phenomenon. If we as editors had that many choices that "just worked" would we switch around more?