You have to really take the time to understand and embrace (rather than fight) how to use the Magnetic timeline but once you do it will allow you to edit must faster and facilitate your creativity more than any other editing program. In my opinion it has the cleanest and most efficient media browser that really allows you to organize and see all of your media at a glance. I have been an editor/graphic designer for nearly 20 years and work in FCPX eight or more hours a day 5 days a week and, while not perfect in the sense that there are some features and functions I would really like to see added(the reason for only 4 stars), it is by far my favorite (and fastest to use) editing app. I suppose if you put together a $10,000+ workstation you may be able to reach some of the speed levels of the $3000 non-Pro iMac but I doubt it. Yes I tried the latest version of Resolve and no the supposed speed increases and GPU optimization didn’t make it anywhere close to as fast as FCP.

However, one thing which is tough to deny is that FCP is WAY faster than either Davinci or Premiere. I can see why someone would want to use the other two as there are aspects of both of those programs that have more options than FCP. FCP is just flat out better than the other two for my use case. The developers really have done a fantastic job with this latest version of FCPX and I am blown away at how much more efficient and optimized the editing process has become, especially when compared to Premiere. I am honestly speechless at the vast amount of improvements made to this software.

I recently revisited Final Cut Pro X when I heard great things about their 10. Today Final Cut Pro X is an outstanding NLE.

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