Re: AFTER NAB thoughts regarding Final Cut

[walter biscardi] "Don't complain when you can't get hardware acceleration from a product that won't offer it when you can easily get it from another product."

Really?
What if someone would substitute "hardware acceleration" for any other issue one might be having with a product. Like drop frame for 720p? One shouldn't complain? So one should just buy the Avid then since one could easily get if from them? Is that what you did?

At this level, there is built into the purchase of the software product an expectation of (how should I say this?) accommodating present or emerging common real-life field circumstances either by patch or upgrade. The buyer expects the software over the long haul to be competitive with the best products in it's class.
I wouldn't consider hardware acceleration a common real-life circumstance anymore than CMX would have considered non-linear editing a common real-life circumstance. The point of the previous poster was to gain faster editing in FCP through hardware acceleration that he thinks he needs in order to do his common jobs more effectively. I too work on a very new very tricked out MacPro with a very fast SAN and while it is faster than that old 2GHz G5, it still takes some rendering. Which is probably why my client who works regularly with an Avid, has asked me, "Is this a fast computer they have here?"
It's reasonable to desire faster editing capability and foundational editing capability from a product at this level. This is not open sourceware wherein the buyer doesn't know if any updates or support will ever be coming.
I welcome his suggestion. There are many things about FCP that I prefer over Avid, but speed and media management aren't on that list. Do you think they'll ever be?