This past weekend at the Boston Supermeet, Walter Murch spoke about his experience with FCPX to date. As the video below demonstrates, he's not sold yet. I think he's in line with the rest of the post world. If their main cheerleader isn’t sold, then they have trouble. Ever since Walter edited Cold Mountain on FCP, the world has been at Apple’s fingertips, but it seems they have been hell bent on being different, just for the sake of being different.
Where did FCP go so wrong? Is it part of a bigger plan? If so, why alienate your core customer so much that they take numbers to get in line to jump ship? Although I haven't edited a complete project in FCPX, I have played around with it enough to know I can't use it for the work I do. It seems that with the departure of Wes Plate from Automatic Duck to Adobe, Premiere stands to fill in where FCP strands people.
With this, news comes that Automatic Duck is now FREE!! I can only surmise that there will be a new product coming shortly. However, this is still great news. Since FCP 7 will not be around much longer (yours still works,) you’ll want to get your projects off FCP and bring them over to Avid MC or Premiere. Doing all of this archiving for free sounds good to me!
As for the latest FCPX update, it does address a few concerns. XML support is a must that should have been included with the original release. “Roles” are their idea on how to handle tracks?? Not quite. Shared network support was added as well. However, the elusive shared projects idea seems to fall on deaf ears. This alone causes most professionals to avoid this program. It’s a big reason why FCP is not the market leader with film and TV editors.
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