Apps generally have code names during development because the name hasn’t been decided on yet or because development is secret and a code name reveals little about the app. Our internal code name for the app was Project Xto7. We started work on a translation tool for Final Cut Pro X XML to allow translation back to Final Cut Pro 7 XML in the late Summer of 2011. Ideally it would be unique enough that it is easily found via search engines. Ideally it should be easy to remember and relevant to what it does. Naming an app (software application) is never easy. I’d like to explain why we did that as some people have expressed some disappointment in the change. We recently renamed Xto7 for Final Cut Pro to XtoCC (Creative Cloud).
We will let Philip explain all, it is an interesting story: So when it was announced that Assisted Editing had renamed Xto7 to XtoCC, we caught up with Philip Hodgetts and asked him why.
One of the great things about the recent FCPX Creative Summit was the attendance of many of the software writers in the ecosystem.
