Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years?

Hugh Pickens writes "The latest version of Final Cut Pro, the widely used tool in the professional video editing world, was getting a reputation as the app that launched a thousand complaints, as the 955 reviewers and raters on iTunes collectively rated FCP as, 'Two and a half stars.' 45% of reviewers gave the software one star, the lowest rating possible, bestowing on the program the dubious honor of being the lowest-rated Apple software hosted by the company's digital store. Many complaints center around lost features. We used to be able to do this, and now we can't. You can't work with existing FCP Suite projects. There's no external video monitoring, no EDL imports, no backup application disk so good luck re-installing the software on the road without a good internet connection, and lots of unanswered questions about site licensing." Pickens continues: "'This was the product that completely built my company starting in 2000 / 2001 and now it's time for me to say goodbye,' writes Walter Biscardi. 'As I tell everyone else, if the tool isn't working for you, then find a tool that does.' But is this negative response just a very short-term response from editors who have gotten used to doing things the old way and don't want to change? Clearly, there are some amazing new features in FCP X. The 64-bit architecture means much better performance. The new tools such as the magnetic timeline, clip connections, compound clips, and audition seem like intuitive, great features. 'Great design, like great music, is almost always foreign at first, if not disturbingly strange,' writes David Leitner. 'You have to spend time with it. But if it is great, and if you invest your attention, it will change the way you look at the world.'"

Comments

Re:I thought that was the iPhone

[SerpentMage]

Oh this is stupid fanboy stuff... Sure there have been the naysayers, but to say that Apple can't make mistakes is just plain lunacy!

Apple makes plenty of mistakes, but what they excel in is burying it quick. For example the iPhone 4 antenna problems. Or how about we talk about how they caved in on the 30% cut for inapp purchases? Nobody talks about that? Or how about how that Swiss newspapers are shifting away from iPad apps to HTML 5 apps... No that you don't hear about. But it does not mean that it did not happen. It is just that the fanboys keep yelling and screaming louder...

Re:When Apple screws you, it's always your fault

[CheerfulMacFanboy]

I love how Apple cultists ritually denounce anyone who dares to want to do something that Apple doesn't allow them to do.

When I bought my MacBook Pro a couple years ago, only a few weeks after Apple stopped shipping them with S-video ports, I was surprised, to say the least.

So you didn't read the specs page, or any tests, not even the reports on the release all pointing that out? Are you also surprised that you are a fucking moron? Or did you just make all that stuff up, because you are an Anti-Apple Cultist?