Here are the reasons why the FCP X video editing software, which was launched on Tuesday, was a failure:

Firstly, to use the Final Cut Pro X you will need Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or Lion (when it is released), which is as good as useless in your existing Apple OS.



Final Cut Pro X is unaffordable and it costs $1,000. The previous $1,000 Final Cut Studio bundle had four other apps -- Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Color and Compressor.

Motion and Compressor will now have to be bought separately for $50 each. Color and Soundtrack Pro have been folded into FCP X itself.

Apple will separately sell iLife and iWork suites in the Mac App Store making the process more complicated and excruciating.

The app, when installed, will notify you to import iMovie Events, which is quite unimpressive for a professional who is working in a broadcast television and never went beyond the FCP. iMovie is used by small-time rookies to edit videos of weddings and birthday parties.

You can import iMovie, but there is no option for importing a newer version of FCP. Moreover, FCP X is not backwards compatible with the previous version of FCP. So, in case you start with a project in FCP 7, stick to it and complete it because FCP X will not recognize what you started previously.

Editing something as simple as multiclip is a confusing affair. You will keep searching for the right moves. Moreover, FCP X does not create audio markers in real time like FCP 7. Waste of $300, indeed.

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