Apple Issuing Refunds for Final Cut Pro X Upon Request

Be nice if they offered a demo period like they did with Aperture to be honest...

Maybe they should change the name to "Beta Cut pro"

And Steve Jobs asked, "Can somebody tell me what Final Cut Pro X is supposed to do?"

Good on Apple. However, I'm sure they expected an angry backlash after removing so many professional features. It's clear that Apple feel that the increase in sales from consumer filmmaker enthusiasts will outweight the loss in sales from professionals.

hmmm..

I wonder if Apple is heading downhill with their software now?

Because a complete re-write of a program that took the 10 prior years to build had a bad 1.0 release after its first week on the market? I think you're reading FAR too much into this... After a year or so Apple will have either added back features and won over much of their previous user base or FCPX will be abandoned by pros and adopted by pro-ams everywhere. FCPX is going to be a success, it's just a question of which market it wins over, even both if they quickly play their cards right.

Wow you know some heads rolled over this one.

Can you say Job Opening?

I'm just sorry Steve is still on medical leave and isn't there to tell them how much they should all hate themselves right now.

"What do people use FCP for?"
"Professional video editing, sir."
"Then why..." (as he hurls boxed copies of Mobile Me at people) "can't they f%)(#%(ing do that?"

Just like mobile me, I can see it now in a future keynote...
Steve: "Final Cut Pro X was not our finest hour."

It seems FCPX is to FCP7 what Quicktime X is to Quicktime 7 :eek:

Glad I'm still using FCS2 to be honest. I'll wait a while before making any more judgement

Imagine Adobe releasing Photoshop CS6, a complete rewrite of the software, you cannot open all of your PSD file, your plugins don't work anymore, CMYK and lab are gone and Adobe doesn't understand why pro are complaining.


Sergio

Just out of curiosity, not debating the quality of FCPX, but what would possess one of the two biggest media agencies in the UK to move to a 1.0 program immediately upon it's release?

I don't care who the software comes from, that's just not a good decision and disappointment is almost guaranteed.

I own an audio production company, one of the smallest in the US, and we would never in a million years jump onto a 1.0 release. When Pro Tools updates, we wait. When OS X updates, we wait. New features are exciting, but jeopardizing productivity on untested software is not a risk we're willing to take.

I can't believe so many professionals actually did this.

You don't understand the situation. I don't know of any professionals who dumped FCS and went to FCX. Even the original poster didn't say anything about migrating to FCX. What all the pros are saying is that with the lack of professional features in FCX, and that Apple has stopped updating and selling Final Cut 7, that the Final Cut Platform as it stands now is dead. That leaves them with thousands of dollars invested in equipment/training (millions at some places) and being forced to migrate to another NLE that meets their requirements. They can hold off for a short while, but Apple has made no time commitments to when the "fixes" are coming, or whether those fixes will allow them to affectively use FCX. It's a waiting game that most studios can't afford to play. Apple really screwed this up because they basically pulled the rug out from under all of their loyal professional users. How would you feel about Apple right now if you were the owner of a major editing studio and the software that you have relied on for the past decade suddenly went away?