I don't know, maybe there's something I don't understand. We see the world at around 55 fps. I don't see how viewing at a frame rate closer to that would have a negative effect on your eyes (as long as the projection isn't screwed up). It would seem to me like slower frame rates would be more of an eye strain.

Of course I'll reserve judgment on the aesthetic of the frame rate until I see it, but I just don't get the headache complaints, unless bullet3's comments about projection issues are valid, which would have nothing to do with the frame rate itself. I've never had any issue with eye strain from a 60Hz TV.

Hahaha, I can't believe they deleted the Nedry joke, that was the best one!

Okay phew, glad I'm not crazy

Thanks iJim, you explained it better than I could.

I used to play it, a LOT. Got blue version in 3rd grade for my GameBoy Pocket and I was hooked all through middle school, and on and off in high school. It's since faded away though. It got to the point where I would only play LeafGreen at night to put myself to sleep, then eventually I just stopped altogether. And now my brain is full of tons of useless Pokemon knowledge. It was always a fun game though.

I'm not that into video games in general anymore.

Seems like most of those drawbacks have to do with having an underpowered machine. I don't need to transcode any of my footage, including multi-cam projects, so no waiting for that.

What NLE actually does good motion graphics? That's almost always a job for a dedicated graphics program.

And X does output a relatively small number of file types, that's why Compressor is a thing, just as it was for 7.

For number 8, isn't that a lot better than having no background rendering at all (FCP7)?

And though I have no experience with this, the presenter in the video I linked to earlier states that FCPX does recognize footage from servers. Maybe it just takes some googling, I wouldn't know.

Keep in mind I'm not trying to say FCPX is perfect, or always the right tool for the job, but I do think it gets a lot more criticism than it deserves. I think the Adobe ecosystem is great. If Premiere had the elegance and workflow of FCPX then I wouldn't hesitate to use that instead because of the easy round tripping you can do with their other programs. But I just can't go back to the clunkiness of it. That's just me.

I do think color correction in X is very limited, as it was in 7, except now there's no Color. Resolve Lite is a no-go for me until I get a monitor with a high enough resolution, so until then, I'm stuck with Magic Bullet. But pros can use Resolve just fine via XML.