I assumed that whatever luxury features it offered would do me good at some point. This was good, as it would give me a running start. The first thing I noticed was that it seemed like a clone of iMovie. I'd already committed a lot of money to the upgrade, compared to which $299 was next to nothing, so I added it on. When I upgraded my Macbook Pro, I was offered FCP as part of the package. I'd been using iMovie with great success. I've been a MacOS user for somewhere close to 20 years and agree that FCP 10.6.6 (the only version I've used) should never have been released. When you’re ready to learn Final Cut the community is awesome and we’re happy to help. Don’t come in here and be all Final Cut is poopy and I only like my Vegas. You use a tool that works and you use them for your situation. Light meters, light fills, filters, stabilizers. Its like a photographer needs their tools. Illustrator and photoshop for graphics if I need them. Davinci for grading if I need more than Final Cut color correction. If you want an all in one then you’re not going to find a pro level. Compressor is a great tool for batching projects and has its own set of utility in its own right. That’s a lot of angst for a piece of software that does not care if you use it or not. This is like when people would come in the Apple Store all pissed off at the iPhone when the had an android phone. If Final Cut pro was “bad” it wouldn’t be used for feature films by professional so I look at your post as an admission of someone that wanted the software to work like a standard editor who didn’t want to change their way of thinking. It is because of the windows install base and a change from FXP7 to what we now call X years ago that alienated many editors and forced them to try other options combined with Adobe capitalizing on this. It isn’t because it’s better software, because it simply IS NOT. You’re biased and I feel you don’t understand fully WHY premiere pro is used more often. It is stable and super fast to use and I have done larger edits on it without worrying that at the end some error would prevent my work from exporting (which happened so many times with premiere that I once stayed up a full twenty four hours trying to fix it for a client). The magnetic timeline is somewhat hard to get used to but after that it’s a dream to work with. I used Adobe premiere for years before I switched. FCPX is a complete ripoff at $300, and to me, it's practically useless. I ask sincerely: Has anyone here actually edited with Vegas Pro, or is FCPX (and/or Adobe Premiere) the only editing software you've used? Because in my experience, Vegas knocks FCPX and APP clean of the park. Features in both are disappointing, at best. They both have a claustrophobic, cluttered user interface, and when it comes to functionality, they're both unbelievably annoying to use. But FCPX - just like Adobe Premiere Pro - is an absolute joke, in almost every way imaginable. I don't have much against Apple, and I've been using their phones for just as long as I've been editing videos. Now, I would love to be praising this software - believe me. I was assured that Final Cut was "highly intuitive, capable, and user friendly." An industry leading software for professionals. I came to MacOS last year, from a perspective of 10+ years editing with a Windows PC using Vegas Pro.
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