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FCP 7 Shortcomings
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When I went to NAB this year, it seemed like everyone was introducing 4k Red support for Red. We have it Color, but not in FCP. I thought it was impressive to see a laptop running adobe bringing in R3D footage at 4k, and having a proxy button sitting there to rez down to be able to play the footage live. Apple was working with Red before Adobe, and since NAB, Adobe has a superior Red workflow and still does after this new revision. I feel the same way about the pro apps. The new phone takes precedence over FCP, even when its been out for a month. I think the only reason I will stay is because I know FCP so well, and comfortable with it, but I will see what happens in September with snow leopard. It’s just that the argument that Apple makes so much money on ipods and phones, is tough to argue that they may slip into consumer products for making cool home videos and youtube support. It’s not far fetched to say that can happen, and I don’t fault Apple either way. It’s their prerogative, and not impossible but I have to prepare myself for that. I love the update for Color in that it works the way we all wished it would, but I would say new version didn’t really run thru barriers either. I believe Apple can still push the edges of creativity and technology like they have in the past, to me the question still remains will they?
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To be fair you get a lot more useful, essential programs with Adobe Production Premium than you do with the FCP suite. Every post house I know uses After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator in their day to day work. Also the Flash app is used daily by almost all professional web designers. If you had to buy solo licenses for these programs alone you would be well over $1,699.00. In my mind the “freebies” in Adobe studio are PPro and Encore, as well as the useful field recording tool, On Location. We are talking “apples” and oranges here.
As far as the statement (go ahead and go to Adobe, see if Apple cares…) that is a dangerous attitude to take for any company. Many people may just do that, and never look back…
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Honestly, Go to Apples Home Page and that says it all. Most everyone here probably works on marketing projects on some level. When your new ground breaking product comes out, you showcase it. Instead the same phone picture is up from the last few weeks. To me, this shows where their priority ranks. It’s kind of red flag for me in a way, hopefully I am wrong and they continue to push the envelope with the Final Cut Studio Suite. I am just scared that the floor drops out kind of like Shake. There some rumors that this would have a compositing feature added or something, but I don’t see that or the new “phenomena” which has been rumored for a while. This is just an observation, which could totally be off base, but I would sure like to know from someone who works in the pro apps area what the truth is.
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[David Cooke] “ur shop hasn’t bought FCP 7, BUT 2 HUGE mistakes by Apple, at least from our region of the country. NO LIVETYPE. We use that everyday! Easy program that is
far more robust than many give it credit for. “LT’s basic function has been rolled in to Motion, for sure.
But no one has said you have to dump Livetype. I do not have my new FCS package yet but a guy ought to be able to leave Livetype intact or reinstall it using a package uncoupler like Pacifist. Maybe the FCX installer doesn’t write over LiveType, no reason for it to.bogiesan
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I didn’t even know that it came out until a friend of mine, who doesn’t even edit video, saw it and emailed me. No email from Apple. I don’t know if you guys and gals got an email saying that it came out, but I was expecting better notification on this.
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[Chris Poisson] “With today’s DVD players, SD discs look just fine, with many of them doing an uprez when playing. So who needs BluRay? I say it’s bunk.”
Huh? You’re joking, right? You really need to check out some well-mastered Blu-Ray on something bigger than a 40″ monitor. Good old SD-DVD just looks so…blech to me now.
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[jason levy] “I wonder if they finally fixed media manager? I’d buy it just for that and never mind the other stuff.”
I’ve been using MM for years with some pretty complicated timelines and never EVER had a problem. I don’t think Apple can fix user error, which is probably your problem.
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I think you can say that you don’t care about the difference between DVD and Bluray discs but to say that there’s NO difference is just ridiculous. BluRay is A LOT better. I call DVDs “blur-o-vision” now.
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I didn’t say there was no difference, I just don’t think in matters.
Have a wonderful day.
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I’m running FCP6 on a G5 PowerPC and shooting Panasonic P2. I’m generally happy but I’ve been struggling more and more with the situation that most P2 utility aps now require an Intel based Mac. (eg shotput, proxymill, Panasonic P2CMS, FCP’s avchd log and transfer).
This is probably the straw that break my back as to get workflow productivity benefits I have to now weigh up investing in a new Mac or going to PC and Adobe. As I own and run a PC for non video editing aps the cost to buy Adobe is less than that of buying a new Mac and an FCP7 upgrade.
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