Re: The Fog Thickens

[Chris Kenny] "What I see is that FCP 7 and Avid projects are coming through in about the same ratios they did before FCP X. For all that people talk up Premiere as the solution to everything in various online forums, we have yet to even receive an inquiry about whether we can handle a project edited in it. We also haven't received inquiries about finishing projects cut in FCP X, but in my capacity as our resident workflow geek several clients/contacts have at least asked for my opinion about it, which they haven't for Premiere.
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That's largely what I'm seeing too, other than--because I work in a gfx intensive advertising market--I've had maybe two questions about FCP X and a dozen or so about Premiere. The Premiere questions come from AE designers, who feel their lives would be a tad easier and their power base more consolidated if Premiere became the shop NLE.

[Chris Kenny] " FCP X is properly viewed as a promising challenger that needs some time to mature, and I think people would have recognized this had it been from a company other than Apple or had Apple's messaging been better."

Here, we disagree. I instead question whether it would exist a year after its intro if it had been from someone else other than Apple. BUT, I have come to agree that it has its uses, and that it should not be judged as a replacement for FCP 7, even though you can hardly blame those of users who did for doing so.