Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

Having read through the entire thread so far, I see a few themes touched on regarding individuals as well as established facilities.

I think there's another area where Apple and FCPX will make headway. The startup facilities. Given the economy, I think we may see those will capital restraints looking at FCPX and Thunderbolt based Macs. Many of these people wont have the baggage of the FCP7 EOL. They won't worry as much about towers compared to the flexibility Thunderbolt affords them. They'll see a lower cost eco system with an end to end workflow even with the need to move to Resolve, ProTools or even Smoke.

It's not that I believe every startup or even most will go this route. Many are being advised by the "sages." A few though will see this as a way to start businesses with less overhead. Even this may take some time. Given the possible improvements by the end of this year and certainly through next, FCPX may gain ground in new businesses. As a few of these facilities survive with the tightest of belts in this economy, the success stories will spread. Maybe at that point some of the more established facilities may have to reconsider especially taking economic conditions into consideration.