er, is that it?

[Brett Sherman]

I hate to say it. But I agree with you. A bit of a disappointment in my book.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

the thing is I was really and truly looking forward to seeing what apple mojo could do with a long run up.

Its kind of hard to think that this is what anyone had in mind.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Mark Dobson]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “but isn’t anyone more invested in this software a bit disappointed with this?”

If I’m honest I’m a bit disappointed. And my first impression after this long long wait was – Is that it?

I’ve no reason to be as there are substantial improvements on the Event side of life, in fact the Event / Project divide is a thing of the past, but in reality this all feels like a beefed up maintenance upgrade, it’s nearly all under the hood improvements.

But if this major engineering update really works we will all feel the benefit as we work through new jobs in the new year.

Huge improvements for those that need to share their work with a team, and quite a few nifty editing tweaks, but still that slight feeling you get when someone gives you a present that you don’t really like but you don’t want to upset them and ruin the party.

But maybe this is finally where FCPX should have been at it’s launch and now the developers can concentrate on really improving it.

And for me as long as it provides a stable, reliable editing environment I’ll be happy I guess and the fact that this is a free upgrade certainly helps.

[Rick Lang]

May be disappointing in the number of functional feature changes, but the other thing that we can’t judge yet is the performance changes that were touted prior to release. Perhaps those changes are real but yet to be realized as they were done specifically to take advantage of the new Mac Pro hardware.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Vince Sanchez]

Sad to say but I think this is it for me and FCPX. I’ve clung to FCP 7 and its never let me down. For the last year, since I’ve had a fast Mac Pro I start every project by giving FCP X and Premiere a chance. Have always ended up back on 7.
This week I started a multicam project on Premiere and finished it and not could I do everything I needed easily, there were some extras to that made the project shine.
Still missing a lot of things but the workarounds aren’t too bad and hopefully they’ll be added in. Funny I needed clip markers in the timeline and the next day an update was there and it had… clip markers in the timeline.
Was waiting for 10.1 to give it a try but the only thing they added that interest me at all is join through edits, not enough.
If a really big update shows up someday I’ll give it a try but for now its back to Premiere (started with it in the last century).

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel 12 core Mac 2.66
AJA LHi
OSX 10.9
Premiere Pro CC

[Helmut Kobler]

Maybe all the under-the-hood improvements for Mac Pro support took a while. I hope so.

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Los Angeles Cameraman
Canon C300 (x2), Zeiss CP.2 lenses, P2 Varicam, etc.
http://www.lacameraman.com

[Steve Mcgarrigle]

Yeah – you’ve kinda got a point there. Now that the dust is settling and I’m looking down the list of new features have to agree with you. I thought The playhead and audio features would be there for sure. There was enough people making enough noise about this surely to have got noticed.
My opinion is they messed up real bad with the initial release of FCPX – i mean we know they did right? but further down the road i think they realised that the fundamental underlying structure and foundations of FCPX just weren’t adequate. It was essentially “A house built on sand’ – prone to corruption and “not ready for prime time” consequently it would seem they have had to spend all of there time rewriting the organisational structural basics yet again instead of implementing all the stuff users actually wanted.

[Sam Comer]

Almost like the Facebook model of “updates” – “We thought these things would be cool to do. You might like them. Maybe some of them will be something you need. Stuff you REALLY want? Meh. Boring.”

[Mitch Ives]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “isn’t anyone more invested in this software a bit disappointed with this? “

Yes, after a year, one expects a bit. Your list covers a lot of it.

At first blush, there is a lot to like, but then you realize that a great deal of that is giving you back things that you lost in FCP7… so it’s hard to count those as progress.

For big shops, this looks like a great deal. For the rest of us, I’m a bit underwhelmed if I’m being truly honest… but I’ve only been with it for a awhile today. Perhaps I’ll feel differently later. There does appear to have been some polishing of things.

One has to assume that this was a lot of “under-the-hood” stuff, in preparation for some real upgrades. Hopefully the speed on a new MacPro will be something to look forward to.

To me, this looks like what the first release should have been. I hope Apple some serious additions coming in the very near future… and not a year from now. Right now it feels like a lot of garage cleaning and rearranging and not much in the way of new paint…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “the thing is I was really and truly looking forward to seeing what apple mojo could do with a long run up.

Its kind of hard to think that this is what anyone had in mind.”

Everyone was so happy this morning and now you’ve gone an put a big downer on the whole thing, I hope you’re happy with yourself?

(I do agree with you a bit though)

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum