Re: Lightworks - As Popular As FCPX?

Its a simple matter Mike that FCPX has no place in my broadcast finalising workflow. I run a Kona3 card and there are driver differences between FCS3 and FCPX so I could have FCPX but without broadcast monitoring. Tits on a bull. I grade in Color and play out finished program to HDCam & digibeta so FCS3 is my tool of choice and FCPX is not suitable. Lightworks is also not a replacement contender for FCS3 either but I can play with it on a WIN machine.

I know FCS3 can work with Lion and that if you take precautions with the install you won't break Motion/ Compressor in FCS3. All the best advice for years has been to do clean installs when you change OS. I have a really stable install on SL so there is no motivation to change OS for a system that must run Legacy software until I can upgrade to a finishing system like Smoke, CS6 or both. Then it will be a simple matter of partitioning and installing the appropriate OS. At that point FCPX may or may not be installed depending on demand.

Pressure to keep up will require updating OS. One day FCS3 will break in Lion or Mountain Lion and it won't be fixed. This is the time old Apple way. It comes down to personal preferences and I have a lot to lose and zero to gain by installing FCPX at the moment.