Sorry accidental downvote. I actually couldn't agree more. As a professional post producer, I work with a lot of editors and post houses, and know many more. A

Sorry accidental downvote. I actually couldn't agree more. As a professional post producer, I work with a lot of editors and post houses, and know many more. And what your friends are telling you is right; Apple didn't "change" the product. They destroyed it. Literally destroyed it. As in, took absolutely essential elements (think engine in a car) and just left big empty holes in the places where they ought to be. And this @nirvana nitwit has no idea what he's talking about when he says people simply don't want to learn "new ways" of doing things. If he had even the slightest grasp of how actual post production works, he'd see that there are no new ways to learn - unless he means people need to "learn" to get out and push vehicles they can no longer drive. Dropping XML support is probably the clearest example. Assuming you're talking about something more professional than wedding videos, editing isn't simply about "being creative". It's also a traffic management job in which you're responsible for thousands of files coming off a range if systems run by a multitude of facilities, and having them all line up with a precision that can come down to 1/48th of a second. XML is the interchange format that allows this work to take place. Deciding to drop that is like walking into an air traffic control tower and smashing all the radios. That's bad, of course, but it takes a real moron to turn around and say "I don't understand why this is a problem" before adding insult to injury by saying anyone who thinks otherwise was never really a "professional" in the first place.