Another Take

[Oliver Peters]

[Oliver Peters] “Out of curiosity – any particular steps? Or just select the two clips and tell it to synchronize?”

I redid my tests and today it’s working. Maybe some background process wasn’t finished or I didn’t wait long enough.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Tom Daigon]

Aindreas – “Apple have completely destroyed the application for stupid, greedy, strategic reasons. It was poorly thought out, lousily implemented, stupidly rolled out, mess, mess, mess.”

Hey Aindreas, stop downing in misery and come on over to PrP. The waters fine. Actually its amazing . Nothing but blue skies and a company that gets it. Free phone support with folks who know the product. And tidal waves of new users to will act as catalysts to a software company THAT LISTENS!

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Alex Hawkins]

[Tom Daigon] “come on over to PrP. The waters fine. Actually its amazing . Nothing but blue skies and a company that gets it. Free phone support with folks who know the product. And tidal waves of new users to will act as catalysts to a software company THAT LISTENS!”

Ditto That.

Plus, I for one, would just love to have you on the forum.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Craig Seeman]

From Wikipedia on the History of Final Cut Pro.

Ubillos’ group was hired by Macromedia to create KeyGrip, built from the ground up as a more professional video-editing program based on Apple QuickTime. Macromedia could not release the product without causing its partner Truevision some issues with Microsoft, as KeyGrip was, in part, based on technology from Microsoft licensed to Truevision and then in turn to Macromedia. The terms of the IP licensing deal stated that it was not to be used in conjunction with QuickTime. Thus, Macromedia was forced to keep the product off the market until a solution could be found
. . .
Final Cut was shown in private room demonstrations as a 0.9 alpha at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) exposition in 1998 after Macromedia pulled out of the main show floor. At the demonstration, both Mac and Windows versions were shown. The Mac version was working with a Truevision RTX dual stream real time card with limited real time effects. When no purchaser could be found, Apple purchased the team as a defensive move. When Apple could not find a buyer in turn, it continued development work

I also think it’s possible there may be licensing, patent, contractual issues. The cost of renewal of the agreements might have been much higher given the increased value FCP achieved.

Now we have

Ability to buy FCP7 licenses for enterprise deployments coming in the next few weeks…

Changing to

Although industry professional Sam Johnson (via alex4d) originally claimed that Apple would definitely resume licenses “in the next few weeks,” company representatives quickly contacted him to set the record straight, saying it is only “looking into” the possibility at this stage. Blogger Peter Wiggins has noted that Apple’s issue is a legal one.

That Apple has to “look into” something, that there is a legal issue, that from the announced the said “in a few weeks.” Sure does look like Apple has to renegotiate something.

It’s even possible they were negotiating to a very late stage and may not have intended on pushing FCS2009 off the market.

Apple has a history of long transitions.
OS9 to OSX and it took 17 months to go from Cheetah to Puma to Jaguar which was finally somewhat usable.
PPC to Intel from WWDC announcement to completion was about 14 months.
QuickTime 7 to QuickTime X about 2 years and counting.

Apple’s history is long technological transitions and the above also included FCP. So why is FCP7 to FCPX the exception? I can’t help but think there was a legal/licensing issue involved.

[Robert Brown]

But other than that you like it right? ; )

[Geoff Dills]

Oliver, I was transcribing all my interviews in Pages, copying and pasting time codes, then doing searches to find the bite I was looking for in the text. Now I’m going to use keywords to log interview bites, and as I often heve subjects answer the same question to get different responses, I’ll be able to throw all the takes on one point into an audition and very quickly see how each one works in the timeline.

Having the tools inside X to do secondary color correction and audio sweetening will do most of my polishing needs, and until we get other ways to get our audio out to external programs, I can live with grouping each type of audio clip into separate groups and create the four or five tracks I can bring into Soundtrack Pro in order to do final mixing.

I know this doesn’t make any difference for a lot of folks with different needs, but so far I’m willing to suffer the workarounds for the other advantages.

Best,
Geoff

[Herb Sevush]

I have been hearing this sorry assed excuse for Apples behavior for a while now – they have licensing issues.

Well unless they are absolute dolts, they’ve known about these issues for years. Why no warning to the user base. Why not renegotiate the licenses. Oh, it might cost Apple more money.

So what the purveyors of this licensing clap-trap are saying is that Apple didn’t think it was worth informing their user base that FCS3 was about to vanish on them and it wasn’t worth paying the money to deal with it.

And from this information I’m supposed to what ???? Feel more understanding of Apple’s position???

I would prefer to think that they were merely arrogant A-holes.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Tom Daigon]

Herb, or maybe they are both…..stupid AND arrogant 😉

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[David Jahns]

What is this “licensing issue” BS?

Can someone explain? Are you theorizing that Apple bought a software product and all of its’ code, and promised to only sell future versions of that code for only 12 years?

Is that even remotely a possibility?

I am not in the software business, but that seems ridiculous, and I seriously doubt any acquisition Apple makes would come with strings attached. What other technologies would FCP7 be licensing? MPEG compatibility? No, Compressor & Quicktime Pro 7 use MPEG – what else would be licensed?

Even if there is a legitimate license issue, it’s still no excuse. They’re sitting on 60 billion in cash, don’t tell me they can’t afford a contract extension if they wanted to…

David Jahns
Joint Editorial
Portland, OR

[Craig Seeman]

It’s well known and clear that Macromedia had licensing issues and therefore sold Final Cut Pro to Apple. What’s not clear is how that was resolved or whether there were any other licenses that may have needed renewal at some point.

That Apple has to “investigate” the issue of re-release for the enterprise license holders due to legal issues indicates that there’s a good change there’s some kind of obligation involved.