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Is that Sucking Sound Video Houses Abandoning Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro got a major overhaul last year with the release of Final Cut Pro X. Video professionals by and large weren’t happy. Editors with legacy projects were especially unhappy when they discovered that FCPX doesn’t support projects created in previous versions of the program.

Ars Technica surveys some of the video industry’s leading video pros. Here’s some of what they found:

Six months after the launch of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX), Apple’s major overhaul to its professional video editing software Final Cut Pro, video pros find themselves increasingly looking at other software options. The new version of Final Cut Pro was controversial—there were significant changes to the Final Cut interface, a plethora of editing features were taken away, and worst of all, Final Cut Pro X was rendered unable to import projects from previous versions of the software. For video editors and producers with years of work using Final Cut Pro, the launch of Final Cut Pro X made it seem like Apple no longer cared for its market of creative professionals.