I have three things to say to that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKYuF9pENQ http://youtu.be/dP1WQ7FP0g8 http://youtu.be/sDjUzQrqII8 A good friend of mine put it thusly: "It's like that moment when the cops flip on the lights and pull the plug on the DJ. Party's over and everybody files out." THAT is Final Cut X. We're all scrambling to decide if we're going Media Composer or Premiere - one thing we all know is that we're not going to Final Cut X. Me? After coming over to Mac purely because they they stopped developing Logic for Windows when Apple bought Emagic in 2002, I'm now $3500 into Pro Tools - a program I've been studiously avoiding since 1994. I reserved a $1000 Media Composter "Crossgrade" about four months ago because I was leaning that way, but since I'm not doing any editing right now I can afford to wait. Glad I did, as had I bought that $1000 Composter license for 5.5 they still woulda hit me for $595 to upgrade to 5.6... and they've announced 6. If you asked me which I hated more right now, Apple or Avid, I'd have to think pretty hard. It's funny - Apple is discontinuing Firewire and throwing everything behind Thunderbolt. The one computer they make that doesn't have a Thunderbolt port? The Mac Pro. Apple has been threatening to kill their pro division for a year or so now. If I had to guess, we'll all be on Windows or Linux in five years. Final Cut and Logic are the only apps that aren't available on Windows.