Re: Email Exchange with Randy Ubillos, FCP X Designer

To stay for a bit on the technical side, because of the AV foundation discussion:

Let's not forget that it's also possible to go from iMovie to Final Cut Pro 7 (apparently, I never used iMovie). So it does create an XML/EDL in some way for FCP 7 to reference the files from.

Now FCPx timeline is much more complex than iMovie, but still it does not seem like something that's impossible to do. Except that it seems only export the basic video and audio clips are 'easy' ( what about Motion projects in the timeline?), but basically that would be enough for most professionals. So I don't buy the 'not enough information' remark for Randy Ubillos.

There's an article on DVcreators.net http://www.dvcreators.net/what-does-the-guy-who-led-the-original-final-cut-...

Which tells that iMovie 08 was originally destined to be some pre-final cut application called First Cut. So again going between the two applications with different frameworks is not impossible. The process of bridging the gap between iMovie and Final Cut was already laid out on the roadmap for years. Basically they have done the same thing before with Logic Pro and GarageBand.

Personally there are some aspects that I like about FCPX and I think we will see some updates soon, but I truly dislike the way the app has been presented and the lack of a roadmap with stuff that will be added soon. Unfortunately I think that most people on this forum have already bought this app (including me) and probably also a lot of iMovie users might have already made purchases so Apple is already cashing again...