Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Bill Davis] "That X is constructed on a metadata scaffolding is just a reflection that all of communications is increasingly built on that same reality."

I agree that metadata is worth its weight in gold, but I don't find myself as enamored w/FCPX's metadata abilities. Maybe part of it is because I've worked as a vault librarian and an AE so for years my whole world was tagging, sorting, organizing, cross-referencing, tracking and protecting assets from less meticulous users. A few years ago I would've gone gaga over FCPX's metadata but then I saw things like FC Server and CatDV I was like "This. Is. Awesome."

I want more than FCPX can provide which is why I'm looking at standalone DAM (Digital Asset Management) software. I also worry about putting all my meta-eggs in the FCPX basket and then not being able to get them out again. For software like CatDV it's in their best interests to use open standards and make CatDV as compatible w/as many NLEs as possible so that makes me more comfortable when I think about the process of building an asset library that will live and grow with me for years, and hopefully decades, into the future.