Apple Certified Final Cut Pro X Training

Last month Apple formally announced the release of a new version of Final Cut Pro called FCPX at NAB, where they demonstrated some of the new features.  We all eagerly await it's release at some point in the future. But what does this mean for Apple Certified Training? The answer at the moment is we just don't know. Apple have not said anything about the changes to the FCP training Programme, all we have to go is what happened with the last major upgrade, and there are no guarantees that things will be the same this time round.

For the last upgrade,

The new version of FCP101 training materials came out with the release of the software.

This time round if the Apple Certified Trainers need to attend an upgrade courses it may take longer before we are actually able to roll out the courses.

For those who were certified in the old version of the OS Apple offered an online recertification exam that could be sat at home with book in front of you, for the first two months after the release of the OS. There was no requirement to resit the course. After that the old certification was retired and you had to start from scratch if you wanted to rectify.

But to find out what the programme for Final Cut Pro X will be we need to wait for the announcement from Apple.

So what should you do?

You have to step onto the moving walk way at some point. If you are currently using FCP v7 then you need to get trained in it until the new certifications come out and you are ready to upgrade. Upgrading to an new version of any application before it has had time to mature and settle down, can bring a world of problems. Final Cut Pro v7 is stable and it's idiosyncrasies are well know and understood, it will be around for a while.

Attend the training and get certified in the current version, Final Cut Pro v7.