Re: Todays FCP X announcement

[Walter Soyka] "I'm glad to see the pro features making their way back into FCPX, but 10.0.0's missing functionality wasn't the main thrust of my thinking, then or now. The question has become much larger than FCP/FCPX for me."

I agree completely. I've never had any doubt that Apple would do the things they announced they would. The bright side today--for me--are the small things they have turned their attention to. But it also demonstrates to me that the notions I've held of X's trajectory are pretty much on target, and that the decisions I've made to expand my personal toolset beyond what Apple has to offer were correct. I guess I'm even grateful for the motivation. And, as X opens up more, I'm sure I'll find uses for it.

I was cutting a piece last night on FCP7, with several temporarily overlapping chunks of video, and 18 tracks of audio--some synced, some out of sync, and some not synced at all--and I became aware for a moment how much I was depending on the color-coded timecode overlay in the record monitor and all of the TC sync references on the timeline, and really, how much I regularly depend on them without even being aware that I am. And then today, as I read about the new fixes and enhancements, it just really struck me how far apart these tools are.