Final Cut Pro X – Day Two

Final Cut Pro X – Day Two:
So after messing around for a couple more hours this is my conclusion:
Cons:

• No support for external monitoring. My BlackMagic card is just sitting around.
• No plug-ins support (yet)
• No backward compatibility with older versions of FCP
• No support for EDL, OMF or XML
• They dropped makers (WHY?!)
• No customization of the workspace (or very limited)
• No or limited import and no output from and to tape, which I kind of understand as it will slowly disappear, but I think it’s too soon.
• Still a lot of bugs (expected in a 1.0 release)
• When ‘background’ analyzing media, my 8 core hyperthreading 16GB DDR3 Mac Pro goes really slow.
• A lot of the standard effect presets are really cheesy and straight out of iMovie or Motion 4.

Pro’s:

• The magnetic timeline works amazing.
• The new user interface looks fantastic
• Skimming trough clips works naturally
• The new events browser really makes it easier to see what a clip contains, thus makes you edit faster.
• The iMovie way of setting in and out points is really quite nice.
• Instant previews of effects
• The new color grading tool is great and easy to use and can do advanced stuff such as masks.

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