Giving some encouragement to the newbies out there-

Boys and Girls,
I want to give a few words or paragraphs of encouragement to those of you who are relative newbies to the world of digital video editing and wondering whether you ought to take the plunge into Final Cut Pro X.
I am having a ball with this software and my response to my own question would be, "Absolutely!" But here are some tips.
Before you ever plunk down $299, a major investment, do yourself a favor and download the 30 day trial. You can't get it from the App Store, but you can get it from the Final Cut Pro X website.
The next thing you should absolutely do is get over to izzyvideo.com and watch through his wonderful beginners tutorial course. The guy is a master teacher – the videos are clear and succinct and will get you up to speed amazingly quickly. Astonishingly, you can watch the tutorials for free – although if you like them I would encourage you to pay the measly amount he is asking, in exchange for which you will support his work and be able to download the tutorials and the practice files to your computer.
I would then get some video files on your hard drive dive headfirst into the software.
I think it's important, in order to know how valuable a post like this might be to you, to let you know my own background and whether my experiences might be useful to you.
I had been playing around with iMovie since Mac OS 9.x. Over the years I have amassed a shoebox full of mini DV cassettes containing hours and hours of family videos and milestones from our daughter's growing up. Several versions ago, I noticed that Apple seemed to have made some changes under the hood to iMovie that traded out greater program responsiveness for decreased output quality. I got disgusted. If I'm going to spend hours editing precious video, I want to make sure that the results don't look pixelated and terrible.
I gave up editing video altogether for a while. Then, shortly after the App Store went online, Apple ran a sale on Final Cut Express 4. I purchased it thinking that it was time to learn a "prosumer" editing suite. But I found the interface impenetrable and discouraging – menus upon menus and tiny little gadgets I could barely see on a 15 inch MacBook Pro monitor. I looked at some of the video tutorials on Lynda.com and even bought Tom Wolsky's excellent book and CD, just couldn't wrap my brain around FCE. Furthermore, with Final Cut Express not really offering a way to catalog or keep track of thousands of video clips (in the same way that iMovie allows you to keep track of video clips) I thought, "When my daughter gets married someday and I want to put together a highlight reel for the rehearsal dinner, I will never be able to track down the scenes I'm looking for with this software."
Well, Final Cut Pro X, with its libraries, events and projects, not to mention keywords and other filters, gives you a wonderful way of keeping track of all of your "video assets." The interface is clean and modern and makes sense – I often find a smile coming to my face when I realize that something that would seem to be complex is actually quite easy to do, and the gadget or menu with which to do it is right where it ought to be.
I think I am having such a good experience for two reasons. First, I didn't come from more traditional, professional video editing software, so I come at this without all those "this is how it's supposed to be done, traditionally" expectations. Additionally, I was lucky enough to wait until 10.1 came out, meaning that I haven't had the headaches with projects and libraries that some upgraders have had.
In any event, if your background is like mine and you are dithering about whether to take the plunge, I would definitely suggest you go for it. I hope my suggestions are helpful!

High end professional training by Apple Certified Trainers can also be found at:
macProVideo.com's just updated 10.1 in-depth training.
http://www.macprovideo.com/finalcut
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