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What else is new at NAB
stuck at work… doesn’t seem like anything terribly exciting is happening with Apple at NAB? Just a new laptop?
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Very depressing, FCP is starting to lag behind other NLE’s as far as the new cameras go, no MXF with P2, no support for XDcam HD, no 25P or 24P HDV etc.
The Intel transition has lost Apple the lead they had at one point, let’s hope when 6 is finally released it leapfrogs the competition.
Steve Connor
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It is quite sad really if the 17″ MacBook is all NAB brought us. The again, Apple is a hardware/software company. But setting back software to sell more hardware (i.e. Intel-machines) is a bit sad. Then again the 5.1 studio upgrade was a hint that nothing big would happen at NAB.
The current set of software works but could use a serious upgrade.
Will IBC be when the bang hits the fan? 🙂
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Fact is that if you’re buying a nice new XDcam HD camera, Canon H1 or JVC HD100 and you’re looking for an NLE, FCP won’t be it! If they wait until IBC they will lose some of the ground that they have made against Avid.
Steve Connor
Adrenalin TelevisionHave you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.
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I agree… AVID has launched som very comp
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Xsan 1.3 got in under the radar.
Peter
Editing the World Championship Snooker
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[Steve Connor] “Fact is that if you’re buying a nice new XDcam HD camera, Canon H1 or JVC HD100 and you’re looking for an NLE, FCP won’t be it!”
I don’t agree with this. FCP is positioned very well to handle any of these in a professional enviorment. Editing HDV natively (Which it does do) is not a great way to handle HD anyway. If you are shooting with an H1, I would only consider the tape an aquisition need and quickly bumpit to something better on injest using a Kona or a BMD card. If you are planning on injesting directly from the camera you are not using the tool in a compatible workflow anyway.
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Support for LUN’s greater than 2TB is great. Finally. Now to convince everyone to get their stuff off the SAN so we can reconfigure…..
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[George Loch] “Editing HDV natively (Which it does do) is not a great way to handle HD anyway.”
From my experience thats not true at all.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with capturing/editing in HDV then doing the final output nested in an uncompressed 10-bit timeline before going back to HDCam or mpeg2 transport stream for blu-ray or hd-dvd.
Graeme Natress has advocated this as a great way to maintain quality from start to finish and in my experiences he is 100% correct.
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I agree 100% it’s the most efficient way of working with HDV, it’s exactly the way I’d want to work with XDCam HD.
Steve Connor
Adrenalin TelevisionHave you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.
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Never the less, FCP is missing a lot of features:
– Better RT effects handling
– Better motion, text and graphics handling (i.e bring FCP on par with Motion and OSX)
– Better mixed codecs handling
– Improve in and post-project media managemnet
– Improve cross-program media management/intergration (the FCP <-> Motion <-> DVDSP <-> Shake intergration should be MUCH better!)
– Better use of current hardware (multi-core usage is some time a joke, give us background + mulitmachine rendering, exporting etc.)
– Perhaps introduce some pro-set features (10-bit color correction)
– Use the GPU in FCPAnd the list goes on and on
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