• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP Extreme?

  Posted by Frank Bokoski on June 20, 2006 at 5:52 pm

  So I just heard the rumor that Apple is creating a beefed up version of FCP to be sold at approx. $10k. Is this true? Anyone know what is expected to be in this app?

  Christopher Wright replied 19 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Todd Beabout

  June 20, 2006 at 5:55 pm

  It will probably come out around 2008. Have heard it will handle 2K/4K resolution, and it might be the “replacement” for Shake, which just experienced a price drop to $499 and I believe they are also stopping future development of it.

  $10K is the price that I heard for FCExtreme also.

  -Todd Beabout
  Vazda Studios
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  Walter Biscardi

  June 20, 2006 at 6:18 pm

  [Frank Bokoski] “So I just heard the rumor that Apple is creating a beefed up version of FCP to be sold at approx. $10k. Is this true? Anyone know what is expected to be in this app?”

  This was discussed before NAB this past April. Nobody knows anything about it other than what the rumor sites have said.

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  David Roth weiss

  June 20, 2006 at 8:26 pm

  The rumor sites also speculated that Extreme and ver. 6 would be shown at NAB. They weren’t. Its possible that if they were just plain wrong…

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  Christopher Wright

  June 21, 2006 at 3:51 am

  I agree with David. The whole attraction to FCP was that it was/is the most affordable way to do HD. That is why I jumped ship from Discreet back in the early Cinewave days. By 2008 most of the heavy lifting should be done by the new (2/4/8/16?)core Intel processor machines. Boxx technologies already has 16 core workstations pumping out realtime 2k/4k now, for less than 10k.
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  Todd Beabout

  June 21, 2006 at 1:52 pm

  Obviously this is just speculation, but…

  Doesn’t it seem like Apple might be trying to compete with higher-end Discreet products (like Inferno)? I would imagine that this new product would integrate the advanced feature-set of Shake, and even go a step further and offer true 3D compositing. Didn’t Apple also buy Maya? I could see some really cool integration between these 2 products. And a $10K price tag doesn’t sound so bad if you are comparing Apples to Infernos, does it?

  Just thinking out loud here…

  -Todd Beabout
  Vazda Studios
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  Christopher Wright

  June 22, 2006 at 6:17 am

  No Autodesk bought Maya. I would love it if Apple became the Autodesk Inferno/Flame killer though!

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