"It is just like changing every single gas station to hydrogen overnight."

Jarek Zabczynski

Jarek Zabczynski

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It is just like changing every single gas station to hydrogen overnight. What do I do with my car now? you ask, well we are not supporting it anymore.
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Read this on another board. Right on. You can still drive your car, but one day you will run out of gas and it won't work anymore.

Sure, FCP7 works NOW...but what about next year?

Seriously...will it run on Lion? I heard something about the FCP7 installer needing Rosetta to work. Lion is dropping Rosetta support.

Just stay on Snow Leopard. Ok...my Mac is due for an upgrade, I think new MacPros are being released this summer, probably shipping with Lion installed. Can I downgrade those to Snow Leopard? Possibly not...

Now I'm on the side of the road. I guess I need a new car...but what brand should I go for? I guess I could go used, but I need to make sure to buy it with a full tank...
 
Yeah, but if they said hydrogen is coming out at less than a 1/3rd of the price of your old car, but you were still free to use your old car in the meantime; then what would be the problem? Once everyone makes the transition from stinky polluted old inefficient combustion engines (archaic old workflows that evolved from tape based formats) to shiny new efficient engines (purely digital based workflows) then the world would be a better, less polluted, more efficient place right?

Those internal combustion engines are dinosaurs in the modern world of technology.
 
Yeah...tell that to the guy who just purchased a new Ferrari, or the guy who just bought himself, his wife and five children new cars last month. And how do you suppose these people will mow their lawns? Or keep their freezers running during a blackout?

You're missing my point...

Apple introduced FCPX and looked at the current FCP user base and said:

"Ok...so you can stay on FCP7 if you want, but we're not gonna support it anymore and it may not run on our new OS or any of our new hardware. FCPX is what we have now. It's missing a lot of features and it currently doesn't work with most of your 3rd party hardware or pipelines. Oh, and it can't open any of your old projects, sorry. Get used to FCPX or get out."

Very professional...

It's not up to Apple to tell me how I should edit. With the inception of FCP, Apple has been listening to us and has updated FCP with things that we needed and mattered to us. Sure it needed an update, but started over was a bit extreme. They just scrapped everything we've been used to and gave us X. I would have been happy with a straight 64bit port of FCP7.

Change is great, but Apple threw the baby out with the diaper...
 
simonpwood said:
Yeah, but if they said hydrogen is coming out at less than a 1/3rd of the price of your old car, but you were still free to use your old car in the meantime; then what would be the problem? Once everyone makes the transition from stinky polluted old inefficient combustion engines (archaic old workflows that evolved from tape based formats) to shiny new efficient engines (purely digital based workflows) then the world would be a better, less polluted, more efficient place right?

Those internal combustion engines are dinosaurs in the modern world of technology.
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Yea but we drive race cars. Not run to the store to buy groceries. We need the power, and all the gizmos.
 
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It reminds me of years ago when Avid released the statement that they would no longer support the Mac platform. There was such an outcry that, well... I think we will see the same outcry concerning FCP X.
 
David W. Jones said:
It reminds me of years ago when Avid released the statement that they would no longer support the Mac platform. There was such an outcry that, well... I think we will see the same outcry concerning FCP X.
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at least Avid made a statement about there future plans for the pros, nothing from apple since the release of FCP X (Damage Control)
 
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