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Apple’s official FCP7 EOL
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The article is notable for not mentioning the real reason. Resolve has totally dominated the grade market over the past six years. I got CS6 and looked at Speedgrade. It was not well implemented and the pace of developments at BM shot Resolve into a handy lead. Given the Resolve free or not much pricing, I think Adobe gave up long ago and did the sensible thing of improving Pr by importing the IP from Speedgrade with Lumetri grading.
As grading only needs to be good enough for many, it is a wise move to bury Speedgrade now that parts of it have migrated. Send to round tripping is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
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People here sure are a nostalgic bunch. I never used Speedgrade and I haven’t used FCP7 in so many years that I can’t even remember the year I last used it. What’s next, nostalgia for Cyberduck or mpeg streamclip?
I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
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I was recently looking at an old FCP7 project and still have it on my Mac running Sierra. I got the FCP7 project open, made an XML file, converted it using SendtoX, opened it in FCPX and it seemed to all work. I guess that conversion option will disappear in High Sierra, because step 1 is to open it is FCP7, unless I make a bootable disks with Sierra on it.
Actually, the biggest challenge, was trying to remember how to do anything in FCP7.
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[Michael Gissing] “The article is notable for not mentioning the real reason. Resolve has totally dominated the grade market over the past six years. I got CS6 and looked at Speedgrade. It was not well implemented and the pace of developments at BM shot Resolve into a handy lead. Given the Resolve free or not much pricing, I think Adobe gave up long ago and did the sensible thing of improving Pr by importing the IP from Speedgrade with Lumetri grading.
As grading only needs to be good enough for many, it is a wise move to bury Speedgrade now that parts of it have migrated. Send to round tripping is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.”
Agreed. Speedgrade quickly turned into a strip it for parts project because there’s no point in trying to compete w/a app like Resolve when it’s free.
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[greg janza]”People here sure are a nostalgic bunch. I never used Speedgrade and I haven’t used FCP7 in so many years that I can’t even remember the year I last used it. ”
Nostaligia? These are present realities for those of us who are still getting the majority of their projects from FCP7 to grade & sound post. Just because you have no need doesn’t mean it is a non issue.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Agreed. Speedgrade quickly turned into a strip it for parts project because there’s no point in trying to compete w/a app like Resolve when it’s free.”
Too bad that Apple didn’t take that approach with Color. ☺
But, when Adobe acquired SG, I don’t believe BMD was yet offering Resolve for free. At that point, SG within the Adobe family made sense. Once you get out there with a full-featured free app, it makes it harder to justify the cost of a standalone tool. Not just because you are competing against free, but also because the market for grading tools has changed.
Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[greg janza] “or mpeg streamclip?”
Too late.
Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Lumetri with a control surface is delicious.
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[Paul Neumann] “Lumetri with a control surface is delicious.
“The Lumetri integration in PPro is very good, If Apple aren’t going to improve the colour board themselves then I think they should at least give developers a better way of integrating their CC plugins rather than the clunky floating windows we get at the moment.
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[Paul Neumann] “Lumetri with a control surface is delicious.”
I didn’t know you could use the Lumetri panel with a control surface. Which one do you use?
Shawn
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