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FCP X 10.4 Released.
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[Oliver Peters] “However, in order for the new Optical Flow functions to work, this requires Metal 2,”
Does this mean Optical Flow won’t work at all unless you have High Sierra? What are the “new” Optical Flow functions?
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Brett Sherman
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FWIW – In case it’s not obvious, HEVC encoding support does require that you update macOS to 10.13 (High Sierra).
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[David Lawrence] “Who’s using High Sierra in a production environment? How’s it working for you?”
I just updated it on my two home machines, which I use intermittently for post. The MBP is fine – no issues, yet. The older MP tower was also fine. But, since that hardware does not enable Metal 2, I’ve found at least one app (Pixelmator Pro) which won’t install on it.
My main freelance site is running 7 edit stations (mix of old/new MPs and iMacs) on a 10GigE NAS. These are all on Sierra. Holding off for now on going to HS on these. However, we are contemplating getting one or more of the iMac Pros, which most likely will come with HS pre-installed. If those are fine in our system, then I’ll bump up the other machines, because the older MPs will be retired.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I haven’t tested it yet, but this line in the Motion 5.4 release notes caught my eye:
- Easily convert between a Motion project, Final Cut Pro generator, Final Cut Pro title, Final Cut Pro effect, or Final Cut Pro transition at any time
That’s a really useful option I’ve been wanting since the beginning. In reality, I won’t use it that much, but having the option is great and one I’m glad to see in the program.
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Adding an iZotope Ozone or RX plugin makes FCPX 10.4 quit.
James
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Ozone: that’s right. It happens on my system, too.
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[Steve Connor] “Love the new CC options, just having Keyframes is nice as well!
“Agreed. Interesting, however that if I am using the Color Wheels layout and add a shape mask, I cannot see that shape masker or manipulate it if I switch to curves. I would have thought you can manipulate a mask from any of the (curves/wheels/board 1) corrections. I do like the addition of the Show in Color Inspector option in the Inspector. Or has that been there all the time?
Running HS and all seems good in the testing phase….
Scott Witthaus
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So what are the thoughts here about the new 360 and wide gamut features? Good? Bad? Meh?
And with the new color tools, would you ever see the need to buy one of the third party color correction plug-ins?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I’m actually kinda shocked at how many people in the other X groups are asking questions about the 360 stuff. Threads on equirectangular Video, “small planet” mapping, etc popping up as users explore the new tools. Tim D even very casually weighed in earlier to provide some guidance. (The web is so cool that way – providing exceptional access to expertise sometimes!)
As to the color stuff – the communities seem positively delighted with the new capabilities.
Haven’t seen any real grousing about what or how Apple approached this.
Serious full-time colorists likely still find plenty of things missing that they might want. But overall the new tools appear to have earned a lot of initial fans who are quite excited to dive into them.
That’s my reading from the past few days.
The only significant Apple grousing currently appears to be from those that feel $5,000 for the iMacPro is too much – apparently feeling that Apple needs to compete with PC solutions more on price. Oddly, there’s quite a bit of push back saying PC builds with the same performance and build specs – particularly with an equivalent monitoring solution, isn’t that far off base.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere – I actually think the less discussed HDR and Rec2020 stuff might have more “punch” in the long run, cuz before Long – that might have the biggest effect on the “look” of modern video – and not having it in place might end up making your work appear “old fashioned” in a few years.
Interesting week.
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