Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Bill Davis] "
Back when "big iron" costs made it impossible for the person at the controls to own the system, forcing workers to use a factory owners expensive machinery made sense.

But those days are nearly gone."
While the costs have certainly come down incompatible hardware, software, codecs, etc., still keep it from being a 'bring your own guitar' free for all. Even small shops might have multiple seats or maybe just one seat and if you work w/them it's bring your own rig but you still need to use the same software they do.

Susan E. Morse (Woody Allen's editor for many years) recently got brought on to edit Louis C.K.'s show. Susan is Avid and Louis is FCP. Susan will learn FCP because that's easier than retooling the shows whole workflow for Avid.

If you are a one-seat shop that's just responsible for delivering the final product to the client

Honestly, as the gear gets cheaper and cheaper and editing becomes more easily done remotely then collaboration will be on the rise, not the decline, IMO. I've edited a number of projects where the project & assets were shuttled around on portable HDDs so even though we all working remotely the collaboration need to be the same as if we were all working under one roof.