“I worked on Final Cut Pro [at Apple] from 2002 to 2008. It was an amazing experience. The Final Cut Pro X project was just getting started when I left Apple. It was an ambitious and controversial move, but it made sense for Apple,” Sachin Agarwal writes for Sachin’s Posterous.
MacDailyNews Note: Agarwal worked at Apple for six years before getting the startup itch. He is the founder and CEO of Posterous.
“The pro market is too small for Apple to care about it. Instead of trying to get hundreds or even thousands of video professionals to buy new Macs, they can nail the pro-sumer market and sell to hundreds of thousands of hobbyists like me,” Agarwal writes. “Millions of people are buying phones and cameras that can shoot HD video, and many of them are looking for ways to edit. I know how to use Final Cut Pro because I worked on it for 6 years, but for most people it’s just too complex.”
After redefining the non-linear editing market, competitors began to compete on Apple’s terms. “It was time to reinvent the video editor. And Final Cut Pro X really delivers there. FCPX isn’t defined by a feature chart,” Agarwal writes. “It’s not trying to do more than its competitors, it’s doing it better. And once again, Final Cut Pro stands on its own. And once again, Final Cut Pro will expand the market of video editors out there, and I’ll be one of them.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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