Final Cut Pro X, Apple’s professional video editing application, has reached over two million users, the company announced at the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual conference. The app took five and half years to hit the massive milestone after the version 10 was launched, and the pace of adoption was increasing, Apple added.
Though Apple did not reveal the detail data, it did say that Final Cut Pro has taken much less time to grow from 1 million to 2 million users than it had taken to hit the first million. Considering most users’ initial reactions to the version 10 update, the milestone of 2 million users Final Cut Pro X has reached for now is of significance.
Final Cut Pro X had received controversial response since its debut on June 2011, as Apple totally redesigned/rewrote this software. Some video industry figures expressed their disappointment and unwillingness to use this app at that time. There was even a petition that called for Apple to either revert the software to version 7 or simply to sell the business. Users’ dissatisfaction to the update was mainly aroused by the new user interface and the removal of some features which was considered as the core ones.
Randy Ubillos, the creator of Final Cut Pro and also Adobe Premiere, had anticipated the blame for this big transition, and he once suggested Apple to offer a free copy of version 7 so that users could have a choice and time to adapt to the new version 10. In his words, “Final Cut 7 should stay exactly as it was for about a year, and every time you bought a copy of X you got a copy of 7”. Apple rejected this idea at first, and later it made a concession to resume Final Cut Studio on sale for a short time.
Both Apple and Randy Ubillos believed that Final Cut Pro X is a better editor than Final Cut 7. After several revisions and the addition of many third-party plugins, Final Cut Pro X now gains a growing acceptance. Final Cut Pro X along with Adobe Premiere have become the two leading professional non-linear video editing app.
The latest version of Final Cut Pro X (10.3.3) is now available as a $299 purchase from the Mac App Store. It provides a 30-day free trial before you decide to pay for it.
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