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10.08 released
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Re: in-app purchasing. That’s an interesting idea, along with Alex4D’s ideas about a in-app plug-in store. Though FCPX already catches a certain amount of flack from detractors for needing 3rd party software for things like AAF export and Legacy project import. So it would be a tricky balance. Collaborative workflow tools could be an interesting add-on. Since FCSv was always an additional product.
Apple could definitely add upgrade pricing. But the earliest timeline is likely to be an announcement at WWDC in June, with it perhaps included in 10.9 update in the fall. It’s certainly my belief we won’t see any 10.1 before then.
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[Marcus Moore] ” It’s certainly my belief we won’t see any 10.1 before then.”
Fcpx 10.0.4 was released right before NAB last year.
I can’t imagine that the folks at Apple would release an fcpx update, and then announce a new update a week later.
I agree that it will be a little while before we see a major update, and if I had to wager, it would be tied to a new hardware release, but I’m goofy for thinking that, just like you. 😉
Jeremy
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Well that’s actually what they did last year: Released 10.0.4 just before NAB, and then unveiled features for a future “2012” update in select press briefings. At the time, they were careful not to say “next” update, because that turned out to be the 10.0.5 update released at the June WWDC tied to Retina MBP.
So again, I think we’ll see some product roadmap announcements- and we’ll just have to watch their language to see what we can pull from it. After 2 maintenance updates in a row, it’s a no- brainer that the next update will be feature oriented. If I had to guess, I’d say any features they’ll talk about will either be tied to “June” or “Summer”.
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Well my 2008 8 Core Mac Pro with lowly Ati 4870 GPU is playing back 4K XAVC in real time with CC and reframing applied!
Nice update, thanks Apple & Sony!
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Marcus Moore] “So again, I think we’ll see some product roadmap announcements- and we’ll just have to watch their language to see what we can pull from it. “
We’ll see. It’s a bit different this year, they don’t have to play as big of a game of “catch up”. The amount of pre-announcing of upcoming features that was done by Apple was pretty unprecedented. It has now stopped.
I’m sure they’ll be taking meetings, I’m sure they’ll have big name interest, I’m sure we will get scant details.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “We’ll see. It’s a bit different this year, they don’t have to play as big of a game of “catch up”. The amount of pre-announcing of upcoming features that was done by Apple was pretty unprecedented. It has now stopped.
I’m sure they’ll be taking meetings, I’m sure they’ll have big name interest, I’m sure we will get scant details.”
I think they’re still playing catchup in some areas- obviously less than a year ago.
Pre-announcing hasn’t changed yet. 10.0.3 features were announced with 10.0.2. 10.0.6 features were announced at NAB just after the release of 10.0.4. So if we get some feature previews at NAB next week, then nothing will have changed.
Last year’s meetings were on the record, and I don’t expect that to change this year, especially if Apple is doing a PR push.
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[Marcus Moore] “I think they’re still playing catchup in some areas- obviously less than a year ago. “
“Industry perception” is the biggest area they will need play catch up. 🙂 Although, if you look hard, you can see evidence of bigger outfits taking FCPX for a legitimate spin.
[Marcus Moore] “Pre-announcing hasn’t changed yet. “
It certainly has. In the early days, at the bottom of the apple.com/finalcutpro, you could see the features that were coming next (multicam, XML, etc and so forth).
[Marcus Moore] “Last year’s meetings were on the record, and I don’t expect that to change this year, especially if Apple is doing a PR push.”
No question, but I bet it will be limited info.
None of the features that Larry Jordan mentioned were demoed.
https://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/1800
Jeremy
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With a PR push they’re going to have some kind of hype even if it’s around roadmap features.
There may also be hype around third party support of some sort and some rumors pointing to a new or upgraded app related to FCPX.As a compulsive speculator I think the next big FCXP feature update will be around OS 10.9 and maybe the MacPro. I’d expect there will be some advantage to having 2 GPUs (hence the MacPro tie in). Think the return of multiple real time scopes (this is the kind of thing that could be in a roadmap list).
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BTW – if you use MB Looks, make sure you also install the updated version.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It certainly has. In the early days, at the bottom of the apple.com/finalcutpro, you could see the features that were coming next (multicam, XML, etc and so forth).
“Jeremy, Apple has only pre-announced features twice.
1. On the release of 10.0.2 in November of 2011, they announced Multicam and Broadcast Monitoring coming “Early 2012”- these ended up being features in 10.0.3 released in January 2012.
2. On April 15th, 5 days after the release of 10.0.4, Apple had sit-down meetings with Larry Jordan and others and pre announced Multichannel Audio Editing Tools, Dual Viewers, MXF Plug-in Support, and RED camera support coming “2012”- which ended up being released with 10.0.6 in October 2012.
You might be getting confused about the Q&A document that Apple released shortly after the 10.0 release shitstorm in June 2011. In it, Apple did make assurances about certain technologies (like XML) would be returning to the software, but those were never specifically pre-announced or listed on Apple’s site before they were released in 10.0.1.
So IF Apple pre announces features next week to press, then they’re pattern won’t have changed at all. Pre-announced features have never been demoed. Though they might be this time. We’ll see.
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