ABSTRACT
Welcome to Final Cut Pro X (pronounced ten). The application is listed as version 10, but to be honest it really is the first version of a brand new application for video production. This is unlike any previous versions of Final Cut Pro or Express. On the surface it is more like iMovie than it is similar to traditional video editing applications like legacy Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, or Avid Media Composer. It is entirely new, a completely new concept for professional video editing built on an entirely new foundation, using the most modern technologies available in the operating system, 64-bit, OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch, Core Video, and others. You don't have to understand what these do except to know that they allow the application to use all the available power in your computer, as much RAM as you have, as many processors as are in your machine, as well as utilizing your graphics processor, all to speed up, simplify, and make the application more capable. The application is called X because it is based around the capabilities of the Mac OS X operating system, unlike previous versions that were first introduced and used on Mac OS 8.5, and have since been strapped onto the newer and more sophisticated operating systems.
