The update, and with more to follow, should cause less whining and handwringing from those only marginally and/or reluctantly in the Apple camp as well as those who shouted that FCP-X is targeting the casual interests of mere amateurs.

The update, and with more to follow, should cause less whining and handwringing from those only marginally and/or reluctantly in the Apple camp as well as those who shouted that FCP-X is targeting the casual interests of mere amateurs.

To hear some blog lizards whine you would think that FCP7 and their Macs suddenly stopped working when the new version came out.

As to amateurs I am thinking that it is time for me to move on from iMovie.

To be fair, Apple completely bungled the initial product transition thanks to their corporate secrecy policies.

Had Apple simply kept FCP 7 in circulation for a few more months, and let people know the roadmap for the reintroduction of the missing pro features, there would have been a lot less panic.

As it was, pro users were forced to try and figure out Apples intentions themselves, at a time where the Mac Pro hadn’t been updated in a year, the App Store and Lion were moving to a more iOS paradigm, the old version was yanked and the new one incomplete. There were plenty of legitimate reasons to worry.