This is a version 1.0 software and you should know the risks to use such a software for critical work.
For some pros it may work and for others not. There are many different kinds of pros out there. Lets wait some months and see how 3rd party companies fill in the blanks and Apple updates the product. But for some pros it may miss features that it makes not a tool for them.
#MISSING MEDIA IMOVIE 10.0.1 PRO#
Pro or not Pro: There is no doubt in our mind that FCPX is a professional editing tool.For us there is no doubts that FCPX is a very serious video editor. FCPX has a way better management of the media than iMovie and much more pro editing capabilities. FCPX is more like an iMovie Pro: If it means that it is more visual than FCP 7 then yes but not if it means this is not a serious editor.In reality Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) is a completely new product which has the same name as an older product. Features some pro editors urgently need are not implemented: XML support, EDL support, Export to tape, pass-through to a broadcast monitor.Old plugins don't work and new plugins are not ready in the market (why did Apple not get these developers earlier on track?).
#MISSING MEDIA IMOVIE 10.0.1 UPGRADE#
Apple is not communicating the fact that there is no upgrade path from FCP 7. There has been a very mixed reception of FCPX in the Mac App Store with a strong negative majority:Īpple could have avoided some of the negative comments by better communicating what to expect and what not.
It seems that Apple fixed the bug where you got ugly green artifacts on rendering if you Mac had more than one graphics cards (ours has).We don't know any good information which bugs are fixed or not. This would allow to slow down the footage by 50% and still use real frames. You may also consider to place the files into 30p Project (timeline). We use ClipWrap to transcode the file to ProRes LT (it stays at 1080p60p) and then import these files into FCPX without any problems. FCPX right now cannot import these files as it did not yet implement AVCHD V2.0. This is part of the new AVCHD V2 standard. Some newer cameras (like the Sony NEX-5N and NEX-7) can record at 1080p60p.