Sorry Apple. I love you, and have loved you since my first Macintosh in 1985, but this one is a complete FAIL. I had concerns after the announcement of FCPX at NAB (that is the National Association of Broadcasters - a professional organization) that this new, "ground up" rebuilt version of FCP would be not much more than iMovie on steroids. The price-tag alone was a cause for concern. I wrote then that my first impression was that FCPX would have a lot of fantastic new poser under the hood, and a sexy new instrument panel, but basically it would be impossible to drive, used an alternate fuel source that would not allow me to fill it up at any other gas station, and wouldn't fit in my garage.
The 64bit architecture and background rendering are fantastic ('bout time), and even the new concept of metadata management and workflow were obvious (and not bad really) evolutions toward tapeless workflow. But at the cost of not taking the time to implement the majority of elemental post-production workflow requirements is just a miss of epic proportions that is inexcusable even for a version re-evolution of a previous software suite. It's 2011 for crying out loud and this is not your first venture into editing software (as FCP 1.0 was many years ago).
I won't bother everyone with the laundry list of what's missing - as those who care can all read that in many blogs around the web. I am concerned and wonder why some of the new "innovations" so obviously fail in practice
