For those of you who are still pulling your hair out over the question of which NLE software to use may be pleased by Apple's new version of FCP. Follow google links to a sneak preview, on Vimeo I think. It is quite different from what came before but has a number of interesting new features:
A 'magnetic timeline' that simplifies editing and re-editing sequences, particularly if there are effects and L cuts and multiple soundtracks attached to clips.
An improved 'Find' function, and what looks like a very interesting way of viewing rushes clips.
Automated rough colour correction/matching of shots.
Rendering in the background with the ability to continue to work.
Of course, the software needs closer inspection to see exactly how useful these functions are in the real world. I am by no means part of the "Apple Faithful" and have found FCP, in the past, to be irritating and unuseable to say the least, but this major re-working does seem, finally, to have produced a decent product.
Oh...and it's priced at USD299...which means they are virtually giving it away.
