I decided not to do the big Avid crossgrade when it was offered and take my chances with FCPx. Annnd, here we are.

Aside from FCP7 still being around for a little while, I'm thinking maybe it's time to stop turning my nose up at Premiere. We cut RVD on Premiere, but then switched to Final Cut and never really looked back. Premiere was cute and all but it wouldn't really behave properly (couldn't make it not interlace on export, no matter what we did, for one example). But now that there's dynamic linking between the Production Premium apps (i.e. easy AE roundtripping) and Premiere seems to actually be pretty decked out with pro features, I think I'm gonna finally go ahead and bother to install it on my machine.

You guys think Premiere will grab any of FCP's lost professional market share or that it will all go back to Avid?

Makes sense, these days Premiere is basically FCP's step-sibling and that knee jerk reaction comes from before that was the case. Do they make Premiere for the Mac platform these days? So much of the industry runs on Macs and I doubt many people would migrate to Premiere if it meant switching out their hardware as well.

How about that, a company actually adjusting its products to meet the needs and desires of its customer base. Huh.

We have a lab of 4 video editors that are pissed. They are all using Macs and Final cut. I'm the one PC in the lab and happily using Premiere. I'm not a fan of Apple or their highfalutin attitude.

have you guys seen the app score lately? 235 5-star reviews vs. 407 1-star reviews...  that pretty much says it all. 

I've heard a lot of negative things through the grapevine about this since April, but all the reviews and commentary pretty much confirms my biggest fears. 

I'll be learning Premiere Pro and Avid.  I've put it off for too long, but a tool is a tool.  The more tools you have in your box, the more flexible/valuable you will be.  Still, the tool isn't a substitute for the skill of editing a good story.

I work at a 2-man A/V department at a University, We still use tape and share projects over a server.  We still run FCS2.  I hope we switch to Premiere Pro soon since we do roundtrip to AE and PS a lot.

One of my major gripes is the fact that there is no tracks to manage.  I routinely export OMF's and won't be able to.  Also, when we are working with several hundreds of hours of footage on a standard show, and have to downres our offline cut, then how am I supposed to upres and reconnect media?  For every thingI mentioned there's several more that I didn't.

Apple's reaction, and that of appologist bloggers, has been either "FCPx DOES do that thing you're talking about, only in a different and ore convoluted way," or "You can get a third party patch/device to do that thing."  Neither of those answers is acceptable.