Re: On Luddites and the Use of Machines: Apropos of FCPX

[Herb Sevush] "The traffic on this forum is in no way a proof of any intrinsic merit to X, merely to the dominance of Legacy in the NLE market."

If that's true Herb, then we should have seen all the traffic here migrate to the Premier and Vegas, and AVID boards.

Legacy EOL has been a fact for the best part of a year. Plenty of time for people to have left it for another program.

There's absolutely no reason for them to come here to discuss X if it's such a dog.

People who hang here are a lot of things, but stupid isn't typically one of them.

And you're implying that they are so dumb that they want to hang around and discuss "dead" software or simply re-live the great X mistake - rather than getting along with their lives and their new choices.

Sorry, but that view is pure BS.

If you look back carefully on the posts here. it's about half a dozen folks who keep trashing it. And about the same number of us who regularly praise it. We're not getting legions of new commenters. NOR are we loosing much steam.

I'd argue that the health of this board is ABSOLUTE proof of the "intrinsic" merit of X. It's sparked and generated the largest on-going on-line debate of NLE design, structure and use that any of us have ever seen. Some of us argue. Most just watch.

And quietly, X keeps gaining new users every day according to the sales stats.

Another rev or two (if they are as useful as the last ones) and the program continues to grow in functions and stability - and then we have a whole new game.

And consider this, as important new hardware and OS improvements are released in the Apple world - the FCP-X development team - being on the INSIDE after all, will be able to take advantage of those before the software teams from other vendors.

So unless you want to make a bet that Windows 8 (the other teams future bet) will debut with a version of Premier or Vegas or AVID that meets all your pro needs - it might be smart to keep an eye on the team that's recently significantly "future proofed" their NLE approach with all that shiny new code.

If five years from now, we're all on smaller, tablet based OS devices, I'm willing to bet that Apple has better touch screen video editing than Redmond.

But these are just guesses - nobody I know has an actual functioning crystal ball.

But it will be fun to watch it all unfold.

Maybe I'll see you at NAB.

If so I'll buy the first round.

Peace.

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