Why Can't you run FCPX and FCP7 at the same time?

Why? Why not? What?

Assigning FCPX keyboard shortcuts to FCP7

Er.....this is weird. I'm cutting in FCP7 and I keep pressing Q to connect a clip to the storyline.

F12 is what I really want - Superimpose, but that doesn't work on this keyboard because it turns up the volume.

Now I have remapped my FCP7 keyboard so that Q is Superimpose.

What the fuck is going on?

Installing FCP Studio after FCPX

If you install FCPX after FCP Studio your mac will bundle your out of date software into a nice FCP Studio folder.

If you install FCP Studio after FCPX your mac will overwrite FCPX. Yes this is annoying. But I guess it doesn't really affect many people.

Basically if you really do need to install FCP Studio after FCPX then you need to put FCPX in it's own  folder. Here is a rather dull article on FCP installation best practise. Even writing that sentence was boring. Sorry.

NAB 2013 Distilled

NAB 2013 Distilled:

all press covering the show on video, were cutting their reports on laptops using FCP X.

(Via digitalfilms)

Of course, Oliver goes on to say:

Although Premiere Pro “next” feels like FCP 7.5, that appears to be what users really want. The direction, at least, feels right. Apple may have been “skating to where the puck will be”, but it could be that no one is following or the puck simply wasn’t going there in the first place.

I'm not convinced by that. I'm more than happy that people wanting FCP 7.5 have Adobe to turn to, and I suspect the market represented by NAB will continue to be well served by them. The question, I guess, is what proportion of total video production is represented by broadcast and feature films, and in particular how that's changing. There's already been a revolution in terms of quantity of production. If that starts to be reflected in money terms too, Apple's bet may turn out to be a winning one after all.