Final Cut Pro

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with Final Cut Pro, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Devices fail to connect, and final-quality streams never transfer, forcing use of low-quality previews2024-07-08
Missing footage shows Find and Locate buttons side by side, confusingly2022-08-11
Interface oversimplified, with magic happening and no feedback about what is occurring2022-05-23
Felt unrecognizable and stymieing, so the commenter switched to another editor2022-04-13
Users cringe at it and stick with it only because learning another editor is hard2018-02-01
Pro and prosumer apps dumbed down to the point of not serving their needs2016-09-28
Crashes or freezes make the interface look active while changes aren't applied, so user only notices after time2016-09-28
UI engineered for beginners makes the professional editing app unusable2016-09-12
Redesigned editor is hard to integrate into professional commercial workflows, with obvious annoying shortcomings2016-04-08
Trim keys do nothing outside trim mode, just giving an error beep2014-06-01
Rewrite dropped enough features that the software became unusable for long-time users2012-02-23
Consolidating separate panes into one window is impractical for users on multiple displays2012-02-16
Key commands differ from earlier versions, so professional editors can't work with muscle memory2011-09-02
Color grading UI is horrible to work with despite good results2011-06-22