FCP 6 disappointment – same old media/capture tool

[Aaron Neitz]

I guess I’m aksing for too much…. Yes, we have Discreet Smoke and Flame in the house. Do you realize what kind of circles Smoke runs around FCP for finishing???

Guess that’s exactly why a Smoke license costs you the price of an import sports car.

I know. I know. If I want a finishing tool our of FCP, then they should make an offshoot. Much like Avid did.

Yes I know I’m asking for too much. But as somone who does online with FCP for high end projects, I guess I want more than the price of admission really can offer.

For the 2 years of nothing spectacular that FCP has offered up, FCP 6 really is a letdown. Admit it. Yes, we’ll still use it, but it’s still a little anemic.

[Rcpics]

Yet still a bargain for $1299/$499 upg. Aside from the cool AJA interface, I do agree that a serious ‘Extreme’ package would’ve been nice to see, instead of touching upon it with an upgraded ‘Studio’. It could be wise to really go for a full-blown take-no-prisoners package with what many above have mentioned. It would cost accordingly, of course, but could do even more to move into larger-scale commitments. Maybe in another year?

[Bret Williams]

Yeah, well tapeless still requires logging and caputre silly. AND, the capture tool for P2 material is actually far superior to the tape capture tool. Bizarre. Seems they could combine the two instead of having 2 interfaces.

[Bret Williams]

Perhaps EXTREME is out there but requires coreimage, within Leopard. They had to release something at NAB, but the delay of Leopard put a damper on something big I’m sure.

[Nick B]

Trouble is Charlie FCP studio 2 will drive those expensive Discrete / Avid Symphony facilities out of business.

[Walter Biscardi]

Anybody who is disappointed I’m assuming was not in the room today?

I’m incredibly excited about this release.

We wanted realtime multi-format editing. You’ve got that with SD/HD in the same timeline AND variable frame rates in the same timeline.

You’ve got Apple Pro 4:2:2 codec for HD editing which is incredibly gorgeous and potentially an alternative for the DVCPro HD codec.

We wanted better media management. FCP Studio has some serious media management going on under the hood as was evidenced in the auto updating in Soundtrack Pro. In fact Media management was all we were talking about after show with the addition of Final Cut Server.

Motion now has 3D cameras and Lights.

Soundtrack Pro has ridiculous sound processing controls including 5.1 support.

You can’t put a tool like Color inside Final Cut Studio, it has to be a separate app and you now have a tool that was $25,000 4 months ago for free inside FCP. Yes, I said $25,000 because this supports all the way up to 2K which was priced at $25,000. If you’re disappointed you have to go ALL the way out to Color using the incredibly difficult “Export to Color” command, then I’m sorry, you really need to go spend your money somewhere else.

I’m actually much more excited about the entire Final Cut Studio package than I have been for a long time right now.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Rcpics]

That sounds logical….probably put a hold on it when they decided to work on their little phone.

😉

[Tom Daigon]

Walter, your enthusiasm is refreshing and infectious. I am looking forward to hitting the South Convention Hall floor tomorrow!

[David Roth weiss]

[walter biscardi] “Anybody who is disappointed I’m assuming was not in the room today?”

I wasn’t there Walter, but I’m very excited too…

DRW

[Nick B]

I think anyone who is realy disappointed needs to consider their future in the post production business as there will be people who can produce fantastic creative work with those tools and at far cheaper rates than if working on the old ‘high end kit’ and not moan about it.