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After a year has perception of FCPX changed?
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[Rafael Amador] “[alban egger] “But FCP7 now REALLY looks like the lame duck it always was. CS6 wipes the floor with FCP7 from what I read and saw (but never really had time to try it). So what do the FP7 disciples think about their NLE?”
And isn’t amazing that a “lame duck” became the industry standard all around the world?”Yep, exactly. Incredibly revisionist history there from Mr Egger !
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And I’d completely agree with that. I guess my general point is that people put too much emphasis on “form” and not “function”. If Apple can outbound GPU and PCIe via Thunderbolt, then really a tower replacement could be something much smaller, as long as it can hold the MacPro desktop class CPUs and enough RAM slots.
Unfortunately TB isn’t there yet. So this is all theoretical.
So I remain convinced that Apple will release SOMETHING (either an updated MacPro or another design) that continues to fill this gap until TB can support enough lanes.
Here’s a question. With video data throughput being most a separate issue, and Adobe and FCPX leaning more and more heavily on GPU power for real time playback, rendering, and encoding. How important is the CPU at this stage? What’s the breakdown of responsibility between the CPU and GPU?
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[Marcus Moore] “Unfortunately TB isn’t there yet. So this is all theoretical.”
It’s part way there. They can replace 4xPCIe for the most part.
The next question would be how Apple handles internal drive expansion. I can see Apple dropping that for the most part as well. The MacPro replacement may have an SSD boot and an additional traditional hard drive and that’s it. Drop the two optical disk spots . . . and you’re looking at a smaller case. It’ll be interesting to see how Sir Jonathan Ive and team handle cooling. Also of interest is what they’ll do with GPU.[Marcus Moore] “Here’s a question. With video data throughput being most a separate issue, and Adobe and FCPX leaning more and more heavily on GPU power for real time playback, rendering, and encoding.”
To me this is actually the biggest question. It may be the biggest issue amongst us “Pros.” Will they go the iMac route of built in, not user replaceable or, another route which may allow us to swap or add a second internal GPU.
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[Herb Sevush] “No matter which way you do it thinking will, unhappily, still be involved.”
Not true at all. In the options panel there is an option to turn thinking off or on.
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And also Bill…thanks for sharing your knowledge of X! It’s been a real help, both in technical detail and in the rethinking the obsolescence of capture scratch.
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “Long story short, I cursed a lot in those 2 weeks, yelling a lot, giving Apple a lot of feedback, BUT at the same time I also had a lot of “aha!” moments. The speed of the editing, once you got used to the program, could be so fast in comparison with FCP 7. It really did felt ‘backwards’ opening FCP 7 again.”
I’ll add: “me too.”
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[Herb Sevush] “Don’t even know what “linked slection off” is”
Say what??? Dude, you’ll love it.
When it’s off, you can select audio and video separately and break sync, or trim only one track, but if you hold option and click, it selects the linked audio and video (even if they are out of sync).
It’s really the best of both worlds.
Shift-L is the shortcut, to the little “Chain link” button in the top right corner of every sequence.
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[Andy Neil] “4 years to start making a dent in post facilities again”
And also this will coincide with depreciation schedules. Folks who bought Avid last year depreciate it over 60 months. Right about the time they’ll need to purchase again … very interesting.
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[Chris Harlan] “I think the single little thing that I miss most is the color-coded TC overlay that you can turn on and off in the record monitor. I can’t believe that no one else has something similar. I ignored this for years, but over the last three I’ve come to use it a lot. I find it exceptionally useful.”
I use it all the time, too.
Adobe’s are in the info window, which I have now placed between the source/record monitor.
At least Adobe’s video tc’s are stacked in the track order the mirror’s your timeline, unlike FCPs. I do appreciate the color coding in FCP though:
FCPX needs a tc overlay to allow viewing of stacked TC’s. I do agree. The clip skimming helps, but the “at a glance” method isn’t there.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Adobe’s are in the info window, which I have now placed between the source/record monitor.
“Oh, thanks! I had no idea it could do that! Premiere just looks better and better every day.
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