Re: Thoughts on why FCP X is here to stay and the Mac Pro isn't.

[Frank Gothmann] "Because retraining people costs time and money. There are mistakes, things need to settle in, new workflows need to be tested and established. Entirely new software needs to be purchased, new plug-ins or hardware if plug-ins aren't available etc.
We have 80TB of shared storage, tuned to work perfect with FCP7. In order to work fine with other NLES things need to be changed and reconfigured. That's not a problem technically, but those 80TB need to go somewhere to do that. Preferably while still being usable. Otherwise it's a shutdown for several days. And even after that, since are not moving to Windows from one day to the next, the challenge is to make it work with several NLEs and platforms. And which software will it be? It's time consuming to really evaluate things to the core. The FCP ecosystem grew with us as we grew and as the market grew. It has to be replaced with something that provides full functionality from day one while still maintaining compatibility with the Macs that are still in use bascially BECAUSE FCP7 still works and the Macs still work. If we had gone with Avid or Edius (or Premiere) from day one none of these considerations would be necessary now."

Fair points, although if you had gone with Avid at the time, your costs would have been much higher up front, it's only a relatively recent development that Avid is now a reasonable price.

I like FCPX a lot, but if I was in your position it wouldn't be in the running at the moment. As we keep saying a roadmap or at least a statement of future intent for FCPX would be very helpful for larger facilities like yours. As much as I like Apple Products, I think it's ridiculous that they haven't done this.

Steve Connor
"FCPX Agitator"
Adrenalin Television