Final Cut X was really a huge disappointment to the professional editing community when it was released. It was missing features that made it unusable for prof

Final Cut X was really a huge disappointment to the professional editing community when it was released. It was missing features that made it unusable for professionals. For example, when it was released, it was not possible to export sound as an OMF or AFF (which is the format required for sending sound to a professional sound mixer). I saw it as an indication that Apple no longer needed to cater to the pro market (see also apple dropping Shake and the XServe and the Xserve RAID) now that Apple had the iphone, ipad, itunes, etc. As for compressing films, maybe GPUs will pick up the slack. But there are still other applications like Maya and After Effects that depend almost entirely on the CPU for rendering, so having dual CPUs makes a big difference. I don't really mind Apple leaving the pro market. Adobe Premiere has taken Final Cut Pro's place for most people I know. I just use Windows machines now for my video and graphics work.