A lot of the new features announced for Color 1.5 (http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/) are expanded support (such as 4k compatibility, DPX compatibility, better support of Red and XDCAM files, and new hardware compatibility), which is appreciated, but two of the "features" are actually fixes for some of the gigantic design flaws of v1.0, and promise to make the application a lot easier to work with:
1. "Optimized Rendering" (a.k.a. marketing speak for "a rendering system that doesn't have a major design flaw")
Right now, if you render an project, and then go back and make changes to just a few shots, the software doesn't keep track of which shots now need to be rendered. So, you either have to individually add the changed shots to the render queue as you work, or re-render the entire project. The first option is extremely tedious, and the second option can be extremely time consuming. Finally, is v1.5, they claim to have fixed this issue. You can simply "add all unrendered" to the queue.
2. Seamless FCP integration (a.k.a. "something that should have been part of v1.0")
Color doesn't work well with things like speed changes, multiple layers, or basically anything more complex than a single video track with straight cuts. Apparently this will be completely fixed with 1.5. It looks like this is probably being accomplished by sending Color more information about the sequence in the XML file that is used to communicate between the applications.
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