Re: Oscar irony

[Walter Soyka] "On the other hand, some editors have a very good reason to stay with FCP7 for the time being -- it does have some unique features and strengths, and it may help them provide value to clients and earn money better than anything else on the market."

In addition, editors have to evaluate their change in platform based on what fits the bill today, not in several years from now. This doesn't negate X as one of the tools to have, but as long as its reliability is questioned in addition to its maturity, its hard to make a good business case for it. Staying with FCP7 is increasingly not viable. For example, ProRes4444 is very unstable in it.

My point in the original post was that after many years of Apple actively courting a given market - and finally achieving a certain level of success in that goal - they appear to have completely walked away from it, based on the design of X. It's as if the various "A" list film editors they solicited for input were completely ignored.

- Oliver

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