I agree that a few of his gripes sound like user error.  I actually did a sizzle reel recently shot on RED, DVCPro, SOny XDCam, 7D, and 5D.  We spent a week transcoding everything, but towards the end we just used a few files in their native format and it seemed to work fine.

For my own experiences, Final Cut has a fundamental flaw with Project architecture and media management.  If I'm on deadline with Avid, and we have 3 other editors using the same footage, its not an issue.  We save to our own bins, and the handoff is easy.  Does Avid crash?  Absolutely.  But I'll take Unity attic over auto save vault any damn day.  FCP, you have to have people drag projects to their desktop, and then at some point an editor has to open multiple projects and combine, and I don't care what you say, the more projects open the more likely you are to crash.  I've crashed twice THIS MORNING with 4 projects open, all of them necessary.

His statements about trim mode vs FCP's slip tool is absolutely true.  It's an inferior design in every way.  That's why I always say if I'm doing something with a lot of FX, i prefer FCP because its just a tad quicker than opening Avid's antiquated Effects Pallete and Editor tools.  But when it ocmes to story and precision cutting, Avid is a bit more friendly.

I've always described the difference between the two as such:  FCP is an editing program for computer users, and Avid is a computer program for Editors.  While I love my little FCP system at home and it serves me (mostly) well, my opinion on the system as a whole is only reinforced the more I use it.

Having never edited anything longer than twenty minutes, I'm like the floppy idiot in the conversation.

AND SO I EMBRACE THAT SHIT.

PREMIERE FOREVER!

I cut my teeth on Premiere 6 before moving to Final Cut Pro.

I have never looked back, nor strayed from my Final Cut mistress, to whom I am wholly devoted.

Have you ever used Smoke, Eddie? Used to be fairly exotic, but now that it's on the Mac it seems like everybody has one.

It takes getting used to. It's a finishing system and no mistake. I love it, but I wouldn't want to use it for creative editorial. That's what the offline is for.