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

[Glen Hurd] "Just because DSLRs impacted the industry through the clever efforts of video afficianados doesn't mean FCP X automatically will. "

But of course. Time will tell, and it's already happening with fcpx.

[Glen Hurd] "Who goes from owning a market to giving it away overnight, and then gets celebrated for having the insight to regain it? "

It's hard to regain anything these days as everything moves so fast. You could only hope to redefine. Time will tell.

[Glen Hurd] "You seriously think Apple's getting back into the editing race again? What are they, gluttons for punishment?"

It seems there aren't entirely out of it. If they were out, why rerelease FCP7? Why release fcpx at all? When they are out, they are out. They cut the cord, announce the denouement and move on. They haven't done that yet. Yes, it's a weird release, not very smart, but it's now history.

[Glen Hurd] "I'm really curious about Edius. Did you see the color corrector? 10-Bit? With histograms in each of the control overlays and rotoscoping to boot? "

Sure did. Looked pretty good.

[Glen Hurd] "But everytime I think about booting into it, I somehow end up in Autodesk Smoke.

You see, it works with my legacy FCP 7 projects."

If we could buy 4 seats of Smoke, this is where I would look too, but @$15,000 a seat, we probably won't look that hard.