FCP X and Matrox MXO2

[Walter Soyka]

[Chris Kenny] “AV Foundation is a public framework in Lion. This does not necessarily mean the required hooks for broadcast video out of FCP X will be there on day one. But what it does mean is that no substantive conclusions about Apple’s long-term (or even short-term) intentions with respect to broadcast video output can be drawn from the fact that the current version of FCP X doesn’t support it under Snow Leopard.”

I think it says quite a bit about the short-term intentions: Apple clearly didn’t consider video monitoring a functional requirement for the release of FCPX.

If this is or will be so much easier on Lion, why not delay FCPX a month or so and make Lion a requirement? If what you’re suggesting is true, then wouldn’t any future change to AV Foundation on Lion that enables real video I/O have to be back-ported to the private AV Foundation in FCPX on Snow Leopard?

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[Ray Wang]

I think Olof’s comments made sense in that Matrox is ready to rock and roll whenever Apple is ready. That timeline may depend on Lion, Apple’s roadmap for FCP X.

I am not in the Post industry, FCP X is what I wanted to Christmas but at the same time, I have picked up enough on FCP7 and through reading to appreciate both sides of the same coin 🙂

Incidentally I just received a Matrox customer service announcement email regarding support for Lion (good news I may add).

The next software release for the Matrox MXO2 products and Compress HD for Mac will be available shortly after the release of Mac OS 10.7 (Lion). It will provide full support under Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) for all applications that are currently supported. Support for Telestream Episode and Avid Media Composer will require new releases from those companies in addition to our new driver.

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Ray

[Noah Kadner]

Kind of par for the course with Matrox. Their FCP Legacy drivers were always later than AJA or Blackmagic with updates. Not too surprised they are slow in X as well.

Noah

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[Andy Mees]

What does pre-announcing support for OS X Lion have to do with being “slow” with FCP X?

[David Roth weiss]

[Noah Kadner] “Kind of par for the course with Matrox. Their FCP Legacy drivers were always later than AJA or Blackmagic with updates. Not too surprised they are slow in X as well.”

I don’t think your statement above is accurate or fair in the present context.

None of the I/O manufacturers are able to produce “pro I/O or monitoring” solutions at this moment, because Apple has not supplied the “hooks.” That’s not the fault of Matrox.

Furthermore, the fact that AJA came out first with a solution for FCP X that turns their $3000 Kona 3 and a $5000 broadcast monitor into what is essentially just another computer monitor, is also no good reason to trash Matrox.

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[Noah Kadner]

Yeah I wasn’t really characterizing what’s available to developers or not in X right now as the issue. More that I personally haven’t been impressed by Matrox’s support for FCP historically, especially compared to AJA and Blackmagic. Whether that changes or not in X remains to be seen.

Noah

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[Chris Harlan]

Chris, Lion has been available to developers for a very long time. If it were simply a matter of Lion release, announcements of pending drivers would have been made weeks ago.

[Chris Harlan]

I use devices from all three companies and I see no reason to be dissing Matrox. Their mini has worked great on my laptop for over a year now, and the fact that it gave me Avid i/o long before anyone else was a very welcome extra bonus.

[Marcus Lyall]

Didn’t read this thread until now.
My similar thoughts below relating to decklink..

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/12151