Apple has discontinued the "prosumer" Final Cut Express and its high-end Final Cut Server products in the process of its release of Final Cut Pro X earlier this week. And, to the surprise of no one, the complete restructuring of Apple's direction for its video editing software aimed at professionals has been met with loud criticism. But Apple plans to quickly improve Final Cut Pro X over time, addressing many of the complaints with incremental feature updates.
Many users have expressed their frustration with a litany of missing features in Final Cut Pro X. To begin with, there's no support for output to tape, and input from tape is very limited. There's no support for EDL or XML export, commonly used to move projects from the editing stage to the finishing stage using other software. There's no OMF output for mixing audio using Pro Tools. And because FCPX uses a completely re-architected underlying media handling and editing paradigm, it can't import projects from previous versions of Final Cut Pro.
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