Re: DaVinci Resolve 8.1 -- now with FCPXML roundtrip support

[Herb Sevush] " Terrible release, bad marketing and strange packaging has scared many of the experienced travelers away. Time will tell if there's enough of them left to sell the fancy condiments to."

New travelers will climb the ladder. Granted FCP brand has probably lost a chunk of upper market share but there's enough people who are experienced working with it for the third parties to feed it. Once enough features are added I think it'll begin to creep back up.

Key is that the condiment makers are ready and willing. I really think Apple's API is going to be the make/break more than anything. Apple needs to be working with Boris, RedGiant, GenArts amongst others.

Also the biggest change is that Avid, Premiere Pro, FCP legacy, all had a lot of GUI in common. FCPX is a new flavor and some people just don't like the taste and all the features in the world won't matter to them. The question is whether new people coming up, without GUI bias, will take to it.

There's a mistaken assumption (apparently) that FCPX is universally panned except for a small minority. I actually think the divide, when looking at the entire market, not just broadcast and feature narrative, is a bit more evenly divided. Add in the newbies who like it and there's a good basis for a growing new food flavor. Imagine if I told you I'd open lots of restaurants serving raw fish and it would become popular. Maybe it's not McDonald's hamburgers but Sushi sells well and it's not perceived as "fast food junk" even though it doesn't even need to be cooked.