Re: Remaining enhancements

[Walter Soyka] "...but FCP was pretty mature by version 4. "
Hi
4.1.1 actually, which came Dec 2003 after a NAB announcement/demo and summer delivery of 4.0.0, which was broken out of the starting gate. I think there were two or three further unstable iterations, before 4.1.1 which worked.
As FCP v4 was the first native OS X version it sort of paralleled FCP X's 64-bit/AVF first-versionness.

And actually in your golden-glow hindsightedness you are really referring to v4.5, which took over 15 months to arrive after the v4 announcement.

So what is going on now is just the same old same old, except all the noisy people were Avid then.
FCP editors stuck with v3.0.3 (OS 9) or 3.0.4 (OS X) for paying work because they were very stable, until 4.1.1 was seen to be working ;-)