A worrying time with Final Cut Pro:
A redesign by the guy who made iMovie impossibly cramped and unpleasant to use.
A general sense of direction towards ‘if we were designing from scratch, ditching all the legacy stuff that comes from earlier versions and concepts that come from editing 35mm film’
A move to the Prosumer market.
I have a problem with the idea of the Prosumer. I’ve never met one, and I have a feeling they don’t exist. The Market I recognise is for freelance creative people and microbusiness who can’t justify huge outlay but have the skills and conceptual base to use whatever they can afford to the maximum of it’s capabilities. I think these have traditionally been Apples footsoldiers. The software, and hardware, that suits those people is open and adaptable and plain and efficient.
The idea of dumping the legacy of traditional modes of editing makes sense from a programmers point of view, but for an editor it’s like Esperanto- a logical, designed language that lacks either evolved usage or…zzz.
hope they fix it.
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