Final Cut Pro 7 vs. Final Cut Pro X (10)

The thing about working with a program is the suitability. How comfortable you are working with the program it self. Because, programs are made by programmers to suite many different people from all walks of life. So in a nutshell, it is you who have to adjust to the way things are in the program itself. Its like making yourself love the person that you most hate.


I have been editing most of my videos on Final Cut Pro 7, to which it comes in Final Cut Pro Studio 3 with other programs such as Motion (a sort of After Effects), Soundtrack Pro for multiple sound layers editing, Color for colour correcting and also DVD Pro (which burns DVD playable in DVD players). The only bad thing of Final Cut Studio 3 compare to the 2nd version is that it doesnt have LiveType. What I normally do is that I install the whole of Final Cut Studio 3 and install also the LiveType from the previous version as a separate programs. It is sad that they no longer supports LiveType, but I found many things to play with for the titles and credits to make my video more interesting.

So, I have been working on Final Cut Pro 7 for a long time. Suddenly an alien FCP just came out, and named itself Final Cut Pro X. To tell you the truth, it is alien. Because it comes in a totally new interface design not only to look good, but to edit in real time player of your footage as well as organize your footages into file. It becomes an easy-to-manage editing system. Now the difference between this and the previous Final Cut Pro 7 is that the X version is more of an application where as the previous versions are all programs. Programs that you could actually save your working file. The X version doesnt have that option for you to save, and it gives you that feeling of insecurities. Rather it saves automatically. But my concern is, what happens if the application got damage?

Anyway, as for my opinion on the Final Cut Pro X, it has its up and downs. Advantages and disadvantages. Though it may give you the fast editing base, the friendly-user timeline of adjusting the sequence of the footages, the file-based management. But the thing is, it needs more improvement in the area of importing working files from older version of Final Cut Pro. And improve the quality of professionalism, not just the looks of it.

That is all for now, just a short review from me of what I think about Apple's new editing app.
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