In general, I think you have a point... if that point is... Apple is just giving up on the pro level editing application... but, I still find it difficult to believe this to be a fact... I think they just screwed up and miscalculated the response. BTW... Vimeo took down the popular video showing the short comings of FCPX..."I have no title for

apparently they do care... They just re-opened up support downloads for FCP.... http://support.apple.com/downloads/#final_cut_studio But in the same stroke... I read they are also now selling Adobe CS5.5 on the Apple site. Where I come from... we call that... "peeing in the soup."

Since we are guessing that Apple did this intentionally... Which I doubt... and you will soon see many upgrades in the VERY near future to help plug the holes created by FCPX.... I am going to guess that AVID and Adobe will be able to contend on the Android side of the portible media world AND KEEP their pro level status editing application. (side note

[quote user="raspago"] Which is why they were able to be a marketing juggernaut that allowed them to make editing applications that were highly successful at capturing market share at a low entry price... now it appears they just tossed that advantage into the trash... .- They didn't, they already have the FCP name and fame, now they simply

[quote user="raspago"] Most of Apple revenues comes from Ipads, Iphones, Ipods and their laptops. [/quote] Which is why they were able to be a marketing jugernaut that allowed them to make editing applications that were highly successful at capturing market share at a low entry price... and... now it appears they just tossed that advantage

[quote user="camoscato"] [quote user="Randall L Rike"]FCP-X Project Mamagement. Language warning.[/quote] That was pretty entertaining. I wonder if the FCPX project management philosophy will make more sense to FCP users once they've had more time to play around with it. [/quote] Want entertainment? ...it was only a question

[quote user="raspago"] What do you think? AVID, STAY ALERT!! [/quote] Think? I think AVID and Adobe should send Apple a thank you note...(especially Adobe)

[quote user="jwrl"] [quote user="sam the sham"]Avid needs to seize the moment. If Avid is close to releasing 64 bit, background rendering app. or whatever it is the Pros need, get it out there ASAP.[/quote]Premiere is already 64-bit... [/quote] yep... and remember the complaints they caught because they dropped support for the 32

Grossing as in Dollars? If so... well... it should be since the #2 slot is selling at $19.99...

Here are a few interesting blog articles that discuss more about how Apple should respond to some pretty nasty short comings with FCP X.... http://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/1514 http://www.dvcreators.net/what-does-the-guy-who-led-the-original-final-cut-pro-revolution-think-of-the-final-cut-pro-x-release/