![]() I levy this criticism at Photoshop as someone who made his living with Photoshop full-time at MTV for three years. But Apple’s version would have an actually intuitive interface that doesn’t hide incredibly powerful functions three menus deep after a right-click. ![]() You can bet if they did that it would have basically the same functionality as Photoshop, and could easily be criticized as such. If Apple really wants to get people away from Adobe - and I don’t just mean in the NLE market, which they’ve got locked up, but in other creative areas, which they don’t have a stranglehold on - then, to go along with breaking their creative apps out of a suite (thus the new a la carte pricing), they’ll also announce a Photoshop competitor. But Apple’s implementation was just much more elegant. Yes, Premiere and Vegas have active indications of adjusted audio waveforms and built-in color correction features. I can say from watching the FCP X demo in person that there was a definite sense of “this is going to make editing much faster” - in a good way - in the room. NLE features are similarly design-dependent - after all, the programs all do similar things, on paper. There were a number of digital music players that had similar features to the iPod before the iPod came out - but the iPod blew them out of the water with better design. In response to the "it's all been done before" critique, I replied with the following comment (slightly edited): I say this partially as a filmmaker and partially as someone who was a designer at MTV for three years of interfaces that are still used by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Intuitive design is not something you can quantify in a feature list, and as such in these discussions it often gets short shrift. Read on for some thoughts on intuitive design and a few full resolution screenshots of the new Final Cut Pro X. It's not what features you include in a piece of software, it's how you design them. But a list of features does not an editing program make. In the case of FCP X, the criticism is that FCP X's list of new features ( seen on video) have been around for a while in other editing applications (notably Premiere and Vegas). Let me know how changing background colors in your Final Cut Pro projects helped you make more attractive, eye-catching videos for your passion projects and increased your likes in ways that brought a lovely shade of red to your video editor’s heart.Some have pointed out that many of Final Cut Pro X's much-lauded new features are not really that "new." This backlash seems to happen with every Apple product, perhaps out of response to the rapturous reception with which Apple fanboys greet the superlative-laced presentations. Remember, Final Cut Pro takes away many of the challenges of editing so have fun while playing with the color presets that are made available to you. Use your Final Cut Pro Backgrounds to enhance, highlight a moment and bring that fantastic pop of color and texture to your projects. ![]()
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