All right. Apple has had the audacity to release a new version of its professional editing software, Final Cut Pro, that leaves its previous predecessors behind and dares to make a radical new start.

Just four (four!) days after its release, theExperts, and those who think they are, have formed an opinion about Final Cut Pro X. It's junk:

It's junk. Funny. I don't feel that way.

To me, the software is simply brilliant. Innovations like the background analysis and the automatic detection of shot sizes, people and picture and sound problems are great reliefs in my daily editing routine. And the 'Magnetic Timeline' is, for me, the greatest innovation in film editing since the invention of scissors (why didn't anyone think of that before?!).

And let's get this straight: Final Cut Pro X is not iMovie Pro. I hate iMovie. Or rather, I hated iMovie because, like many others, I was addicted to the editing paradigm of 25 years of non-linear editing, which had its beginnings in LucasArts' EditDroid - and which hasn't changed in all these years.

Until last Tuesday, when Final Cut Pro X appeared on the scene. The program realizes and expands Randy Ubillos ideas and concepts that he already tried to lay with iMovie. But unlike iMovie, I can now use this paradigm to tell stories with moving images and sound more easily and effectively at a professional level.

Thanks, Randy!