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So nearly a year on.... has anyone persevered with Final Cut X and how are you getting on?

Whats changed since its release?

I know there was a lot of negativity when it came out im just wondering if Apple have swayed the doubters?
 
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I wanted so badly to jump on the Final Cut train so I bought X then swiftly got my money back and bought the discounted Adobe Creative suite since I had been using Premiere for the past 7 years or so.

X might be a good fit for some, but wasn't for me.

* I should add that X did keep crashing on me which was frustrating and made it an easier decision to request a refund.
 
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I did almost the same as Flicker - bought it, hated it, got my
money back. I didn't switch.

Apple has added many pro options with more on the way and
third party developers have addressed some of the issues. I
recently sat in on an editing session with a friend who is cutting
a reality show. She loves it. It still look odd to me and she said
it took a few days to get up to speed but she says in many
ways the new format is faster. I'm going to go in and give it
a test in a couple of weeks.

I'm sure at one point I'll change over. I've worked FCP since the
beginning.
 
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im still in limbo.... ive got c5.5 and get on well with it, but have always been a Final Cut fan boy.

I re downloaded the trial of FCX and have had another little play, my current understanding with the little knowledge i have of it is that on the face of it it comes across as a jazzy iMovie... but once you dig deeper the pro features are there... they are just very well hidden.

It is very slick and things do seem a lot quicker to manage though. I do like it but have a little niggling thing in my mind telling me not to get too excited about haha
 
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If you have CS5.5, spend $400 on the upgrade to CS6. CS6 is pretty stinking cool, and has some of the cooler features of FCPX like timeline syncing and more color correction, but with way more features, way more power and all the stuff pro's need as well.
 
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I'm firmly on FCP7 until they can fix lion... I won't use it. Spaces is a HUGE part of my work flow for the system... Lion killed it. FCPx requires Lion... so no FCPx for me.

Sounds like (source: guest on the NAB Macbreak Weekly), audio is getting some work done next and Red Raw support natively. Precisely as I suspected, Apple started with the reworked foundation and is adding in the features that the community complains about the loudest... allowing them to leave out quite a bit of code that was basically superfluous in the old version and keeping the codebase as streamlined as possible.
 
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FCPX runs on snow kitty. I'm still on 10.6.8.

It still seems like iMovie Pro to me and CS5.5 comes a lot more naturally to me. DNxHD has leveled the codec field for the PC crowd IMO. Things are more equal as they have ever been in that regard.
 
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Yeah, i ahve snow leopard and im running FCX, and even on an old 2009 duo core, however i am thinking of upgrading in the next year as my comp is starting to struggle... not enough to get annoying yet though.

A question on audio sync..... i recorded on my 600d and audio on h4n with ntg-1.... when putting the video in my FCX timeline i whack the audio underneath as close as i think it would be possible, i dont know if its just luck but it seems to sync perfectly pretty much every time... is this a feature of FCX to sync it up for you when its close? or have i just been lucky?
 
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Then I guess I just have one or two more fixes and I'm good to go... I still don't like the single main timeline thingy, but I can probably get over that. I'm a visual person, and tend to put each character's footage on their own track so I know where to grab more quickly when I'm editing... but I can get over that -- probably.

When I tried getting it from the app store originally, it wouldn't let me download it because I wasn't on Lion. I now see the system requirements have changed :) very nice. Camera first, then associated gear, then final cut X (which should have the audio stuff that I want done to it).
 
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Yep, one year on and I'm still getting on well with FCP7, finishing up a feature doc on it in fact over the next month. I can't remember the last time I upgraded a major version of FCP in much less than a year from it's initial release anyway, so I'd say it's about par this time around. I've downloaded the demo a couple times and played around with it, I do see a lot of potential but I've also got a solid workflow with 7 that lets me work very efficiently. Because of that I don't seem much reason to rush into upgrading or thinking about jumping ship to a competitors product. In the meantime it's clear to me they are making the necessary moves to address most user's initial concerns, so I am looking forward to upgrading to a solid product when I finally do.
 
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