Re: CS6 is released - so what now?

[Tim Wilson] "Talking to one COW who'll be writing about it for us soon, he said that he found FCPX unusable for his workflow, he now finds FCP 7 unusable for his sanity. He was forced to realize how unhappy he'd been with 7, especially on the performance front and how "un-modern" (his word) it has felt, for a very long time."

I've had to spend a good deal of time going back and forth between FCP7 and FCPX on a number of projects recently.

I found FCP7 to be as stable and stalwart as ever but un-modern as well. Apple introduced some very fast and intuitive alternatives in X - I think you could honestly say it's an evolution in many regards. As a creative director that also floats between a Digital Performer studio and traditional and web design studios, I was increasingly tired of how tired FCP was feeling in comparison to our other tools.

In many ways X is the tool I was hoping for. In many ways it isn't.

Here's what I can say definitively. After a few projects in FCP7 the last month, I hopped over and got 7toX, converted all relevant FCP7 projects into XML files and haven't looked back.

X is simply a better over all environment than 7 on most levels, in my experience.
It's a shame that they've let their user base dangle while waiting for basic industry features, but as it is now, warts and all, we can do a lot more a lot faster than in 7.