Final Cut Pro X is essentially a new product - it's rewrite, in 64-bit Cocoa, Core Media, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL, etc, etc, etc. Apple took a long, har

Final Cut Pro X is essentially a new product - it's rewrite, in 64-bit Cocoa, Core Media, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL, etc, etc, etc. Apple took a long, hard look at FCP (which has only incrementally changed in the last several years) and took the opportunity to overhaul its UI, workflow and feature set. Necessarily, things will be radically different and confronting to users who have been used to the same product in the same way for a decade. To get a v1.0 product out the door, you inevitably have to make compromises, and FCPX has numerous limitations as a result. But I'm sure they are already working on the next revision which will address the most urgent of these. Also I think that many people do not really understand the new features and workflow yet.