Re: macbook air and fcpx- the new portable edit suite

[Jeremy Garchow] "Are you in the camp where simplicity and ease means "unprofessional"?"

I know you asked Aindreas, but I'd love to jump in here.

I think the phrasing here is a bit too reductive. I think a professional application should offer deep nuance, immense flexibility and total control. Simplicity and ease do not make an application unprofessional; the lack of these other qualities do.

The Holy Grail of professional applications combines all these things perfectly; in the real world, though, I think applications tend to tilt one way or another (and on the extremes, end up with "consumer" or "professional" labels).

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