Motion/Compressor needed?

I used to use Final Cut Express for video editing. I'm not a professional video editor or anything. My only interest in creative pro applications is really as a hobbyist. But I'm willing to shell out for new software to test it. So price isn't really relevant.

Now Final Cut Pro X has come out. Final Cut Express has been discontinued. I've got the new Final Cut Pro. And I like it a lot. I know there've been many complaints on the App Store from professional users as regards the feature set, but I'm not a professional user needing it for work. So the question is what's the new (closest) equivalent of the old Final Cut Express? Just Final Cut Pro? Or do I get Motion or Compressor too?

I've got the CS5.5 master collection already incidentally, but I favour the apple designed interface to be honest.

Probably just FCPX - it's actually more feature packed then FCE was (aside from some of the limitations, especially considering FCE offered no media authoring). Motion and compressor were FCS tools. Definitely good if you have a use for them (I happen to really like compressor and have used motion on occasion, but I don't need motion for most of what I do - I'd have preferred another release of Color).

If you think you will need a separate encoder, which is usually faster than using the FCP one (although I'm not sure about FCP X), you can look into MPEG Streamclip which is free. Also ffmpeg.

OK, cool. Thanks. By the sounds of it, I'm going to get Motion just to play around with it. I can probably find some use for it. I won't bother with compressor as I've already got a good array of encoding tools for web video, blu ray burning etc which I either run on OS X or Windows 7 on Parallels.

A good plan?..

If it's what you're comfortable with, then it's a good plan