I'm a seasoned - well seasoned user of Final Cut Pro. I was totally excited about Final Cut Studio 2. The features are incredible and outstanding. I can do more and better work than I have ever imagined before.
Mixing formats, working in 3D in Motion 3, ease of compression in Compressor 3... WOW! It's been awesome! And ProRes422 and the ability to work completely in 1080p in any format that I want. I can't say enough about this awesome upgrade. Oh yeah, I can't forget Color! Finally, I got my hands on the most amazing program of the entire suite of programs.
Good Job, Apple!!!
BUT..... I do have one remorse. LiveType. Albeit a simple program that needed some work but it did work for getting graphics out to broadcast. Now, I'm in the process of converting all of my graphics to Motion 3 and making templates out of them for each of our programs that we produce. Awesome feature! But I have to say that working with Motion is more difficult than I usually have time for. I usually have to crank out shows so fast that having to create interesting and beautiful graphics is much more of a challenge in Motion than it was in LiveType.
Why is it that we have tone of sound effects in surround sound but no pre-canned effects for Motion? It was nice in LiveType to type in some text and a simple animation. Yeah, I know that Motion does have pre-canned animations already setup, but in LiveType I could alos use these effects on logos and sometimes video clips. Motion only allows you to place these on text only.
Oh well.... I guess that is the price of progess. I'd better go so that I can get my Motion 3 work done. | 
