Are we getting left behind?

[Zak Mussig]

I think we’ll see interface updates to FCP and Color alongside (or shortly after) Leopard. It’s easy to understand why they wouldn’t want to update, and do QA for an interface they’d replace in a few months anyway. As far as the development teams knew (depending on how long internal Apple developers knew about the delay before the public did) Leopard was going to ship by June.

As far as I’m concerned, Soundtrack Pro 2 is the new gold-standard for an Apple Pro-App interface.

Just my thoughts,
Zak

[Eric Klassen]

Thanks Walter,

How about the chapter markers? I’m assuming I would lose those by going into Encore.

[Bret Williams]

That would be the same interface as Motion and DVDSP.

[Zak Mussig]

Bret,
Yes and No. Soundtrack Pro 2 shares a graphical style with Motion and DVDSP, but the big difference is window management. Soundtrack pro has panes and sets of tabs within in 1 container window. They can be ripped out, but the default is one window. I think Motion and DVDSP will keep their separate inspector windows, but both FCP and Color could benefit from this type of window environment.

I should have specified, but that’s how I differentiate the STP2 interface from Motion and DVDSP4.

Zak