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

[Steve Connor] "http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/imovie-to-finalcutpro/

Apple doesn't mind you thinking they are related"

Interesting reading - everything about their language there seems to be telling you that FCPX is iMovie's big brother. Though no doubt there will be sceptics who'll tell you that's just a marketing gimmick to get iMovie users to make the step up!

[Steve Connor] "Personally I don't care if they are related at a code level, it would seem to be a waste of resources if they weren't."

I'd agree about the "waste of resources" point.

I too "don't care" one way or the other - it doesn't affect my opinion of FCPX in any way for better or worse and I don't think it should.

But the reason I think this is an important question (odd that it's never really been discussed at anything other than an emotional level) is what it may or may not tell us about how long FCPX has been in gestation and how it may or may not have mutated out of iMovie, and indeed why. At what point did someone decide that FCP8 was not going to happen and was that before or after the decision to upgrade iMovie (if that's what it was)?

OK, so it's all speculation - but I think it's interesting speculation.

Simon Ubsdell
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