painfully slow and less powerful than v3.5 and earlier feature wise

Previous versions (the ones that were part of Final Cut Studio) were more advanced feature wise. This is still a 32 bit app and seems to only use one of the eight available cores on my machine. Back in the day I moved to FCP from Adobe because it was a speed demon in comparison. Now Adobe blows this out of the water. I felt like I had just done a 10 year newer computer upgrade when I tried compressing my files with Adobe Media Encoder CS4 that I happen to have on my computer as well. I wish that I had just used that to start with and saved my $50. Youll probably find freeware that will do the job faster for you.

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