Re: FCPX or Not...

Richard - it's maddening having others try to discern what other editors are doing. (Did you just "play with it?") It's working for you? - great! --

But you make my point when you say you can't have a client sitting next to you and say - sorry have to reboot or hide events or whatever else FCP X makes you do to get to where we were before X.

And no we didn't "play" with it. We actually cut real projects on it ...and it's lacking in so many ways with the flexibility, mixing etc we need (eyeline matching and action matching with a preview and a record monitor that virtually every other editing set up on the planet offers)

The skimming thumbnails (more like pinky nails on some machines) just doesn't cut it. And no tracks is a deal breaker - period. the kludge work around to get audio in and out is just that - a kludge... Apple could and can fix all of this and grab back the base it lost. In the meantime - the rest of us have work to accomplish with tools that do what we need.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852