‘Professional’ video editors freak out over Final Cut Pro X

“In 10 years of writing Times columns, I’ve never encountered anything quite like this,” David Pogue reports for The New York Times. “In Thursday’s paper, I reviewed Apple’s Final Cut Pro X, a professional video-editing program. It’s not an update of the existing Final Cut, which is by far the most popular such program; it’s completely new and radically redesigned. It looks different, its strengths are different — and after one day of using it, many professional video editors are running through the streets with pitchforks.”

“In this column, I’m going to address the concerns of professional video editors, one by one,” Pogue reports.

For example:

Complaint: You can’t freely organize your media files. “There is no way to customize the organization of the project media,” gripes one blogger.
Answer: You can customize the organization freely if you’re willing to understand the new keyword tagging system. Dragging a clip into a folder essentially applies a new keyword to it.

Complaint: You can’t specify import locations. “When you import video files, FCP X puts them all into your User-> Movies folder, like iMovie does. Ridiculous,” says one reader in an e-mail.
Answer: Again, not true. In the Import dialog box, there’s an option called “Copy files to Final Cut Events folder.” If you turn it off, Final Cut leaves the imported files where they are.

Many more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ellis D.” for the heads up.]

Related articles:
With Final Cut Pro X debut, Apple discontinues Final Cut Express, Studio, and Server – June 22, 2011
Apple revolutionizes video editing with Final Cut Pro X – June 21, 2011