I miss FCP too. But X has got much better(10.0.8) and does have some nice goodies like the Multicam synch stuff. Metadata handling is much slicker although the Event Library business is a real pain. I used to have folders for projects so i could keep all the disk images, graphics etc. together(and provided you named a project straight away it was a snap keeping track of the stuff in Final Cut Docs).
I know they had to rewrite the code base because it used a lot of deprecated APIs, but I do wish they'd kept the more of the old FCP look and feel. Sequences were just so obvious and the nesting was brilliant. I still struggle with the magnetic timeline and the compound clip stuff. And I really dislike the Precision Editor. I'd also made a bit of effort to get comfortable with Soundtrack Pro..
But you can get used to it.
Reading Larry Jordan, he reckons the current quad core iMacs can handle the CPU heavy lifting. What counts is disk transfer speed for rendering-and you can hang a Thunderbolt(2?) RAID off an iMac.
I suspect where the GPU might be an issue is for Motion Graphics. I do know that Aperture,a notorious laggard, rocks on my iMac 27. Actually, I'd much rather have an update to that program than a new Mac Pro, but I know some people will have very different opinions!!
The keynote is Monday isn't it-you better get the gin in early Hannah. 😄
Rick
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