Re: FCPX or Not...

[sandy shapiro] "Why? Why introduce FCPX and discontinue a perfectly working wheel - FCP7? The latter was starting to dominate the field!"

Unfortunately, we just don't know. I assume the answer is FCP had a lot of license agreements from software acquisitions, by Apple. Apple bought the underlying code of FCP from macromedia, for example.

You're completely entitled to your feelings. Please Note: Avid had serious problems a few years ago. It was part of the reason FCP won a lot of market share, well, that and the mac pro. At the time I recall a bunch of arguments over media management and organization.

IMO, Premiere is less of a pro app than X, but I haven't used 6.

I'll say it again: the actual cutting of pic in X is pretty sweet, and also organizing footage is much better with keywords. I think its a misnomer to call it "metadata" unless that data follows the export (dang!) I mean "share." For example, I label scene, shot, take as keywords. That is, "Scene 1" then "WS" then "take 1." As I select keywords to reveal the corresponding footage, wallah! it's all nice and neat!

Use whatever makes you happy, obviously. I hope you have a million happy clients!