Re: Todays FCP X announcement

Andy, I think that a major issue here is the language. Regardless of how similar things might be in reality, it is a new language, new steps, new methods, and only FCPX people will understand. Try having an audio engineer or a colorist access your media and they will be lost completely. FCPX is not for serious collaboration. It is for one FCPX user to work on a project with maybe a couple other FCPX users. There is still nothing that I have heard in this back and forth that could convince me that FCPX is a good choice for a collaborative production workflow.

This is not an issue of laziness either. There is a universal language among all of post production and FCPX breaks that. It's not just about the main editor, which is something that FCPX seems to neglect.

As for all this talk about tracks being spreadsheets as bad, as imposing... Editors biggest jobs are organization. We like spreadsheets.

As for the automation of assigned roles, sorry for being a skeptic but I don't trust it. When I hand over a project to do my mix in Pro Tools, I will have spent more time double checking to make sure it got than automation right than I would have had I just placed the audio in the track I want from the start. The last thing I would ever want is a phone call from a confused audio technician about why my tracks don't make sense and having to explain to him how FCPX role assignments got it wrong.

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