FCP Roadmap

[Chris Borjis]

heh heh! Good one.

[Zane Barker]

[Russell Lasson] “My hunch is that the next FCS is joined at the hip with Snow Leopard and the new QuickTime”

Thats what Im hoping. If it is true we might just see some major improvements in FCP not so much in features, but under the hood.

FCP is currently a 32 bit application and that is the reason for the ram usage limitation (https://support.apple.com/kb/TA27734). For FCP to become 64 bit it would it of course needs to run on a 64 bit OS (new we do have that in leopard) however we must remember that FCP is based around quicktime. As far as I can tell by searching the vastness of the interwebs Quicktime is still 32 bit. Keeping in mind that quicktime is a CORE component of the OS it makes perfect sense that for those core components to become 64 bit, it must be done at a OS level not just a quicktime update. According to some reports about Snow Leopard there is a big shift toward more 64 bit support (https://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2009/03/06/new-snow-leopard-seed-packs-new-quicktime-cocoa-finder/).

Sorry to geek out on you there, but what I am personally hoping for is the new OS to have a 64 bit version of quicktime and therefor the new version of FCP to require that, thus enabling FCP to become 64 bit and we also no longer have the ram limit.

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