Well well well,
I've been cutting my teeth on Final Cut. Is this a cruel joke from Apple. I know how editing tools work this has been my life for the last 20 years.
My god, there is so much thought missing from this product it;s scary. I'm incredibly open minded when it comes to software but I would rather work on Avid Free DV. Much better productivity. Seriously...!!!
As on online system, forget it. DS, Smoke, Adobe Premiere, Symphony make sense to me.
The FCP toolset takes you about a third of the way, and then you are left wondering about the rest.
Colour correction, forget it, not only are the tools missing but the ones that exist are written backwards. And the quality of the colour tools are horrible.
I happen to be using a colour finesse plugin and thank goodness for that. I tested the same setting in 3-way and colour finesse. Synthetic Aperture knows how to handle color really well.
FCP forget it.
I'll report more later, but I've been up for a very long time and I know I could have completed this project on DS in 1 tenth of the time and with a better output.
Yes, Avid costs mucho more, but I know I really understand why.
