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Originally Posted by AntiSilence
But that's all down to how the software has been programmed. It doesn't have anything to do with the computer its running on. If Final Cut Pro was programmed for the PC with the exact same features, menus and options, how could it be any less easy to use?
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The nearest FCP got (and is ever likely to get) to being released on the PC was that Media 100 (the company Apple bought Final Cut Pro from) devloped a high-end video editing system called 844/X, based around a similar interface to FCP. In use it was very similar (although 844/X relied on a £25,000 processing box and performed most operations in real time).
Actually, what you say is true. The interface is down to how the software is coded, and there is no real reason why someone could not replicate a mac user interface using windows system calls.
However, Apple DO seem to make more of an effort to enforce their own User Interface Guidelines (Microsoft not only don't enforce them, they don't always follow their own guidlines).