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FCP X – food for thought
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Better than the whole company being EOL.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems -
[Oliver Peters] “Of course – a bit off topic – it’s kind of funny that neither current Jobs movie will have been cut with any form of F”
Not really much weirder than Thomas Grove Carter cutting that big new zillion dollar Android spot on X.
I suspect most of his client communication with the Android team originated from an iPhone.
And so it goes.
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Do you think Resolve will end up a front runner? It looks like a really nice interface. Anything in particular stopping people using it more at the moment?
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[James Ewart] “Anything in particular stopping people using it more at the moment?”
Realtime playback on anything but the fastest system can be bad, especially 4K.
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I am not questioning the dedication to the NLE, as it confirms the original hypothetical question that for Avid, the NLE is a fundamental underpinning to the overall business model and without it, Avid would less likely to survive compared to other companies offering NLE’s in their lineup.
There’s a whole other conversation to have about market growth, etc.
Michael
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[Steve Connor] “Realtime playback on anything but the fastest system can be bad, especially 4K.”
But … it’s FREE!!
That’s a bit of a game changer. Downloaded onto an old Imac to see what it can do on that.
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One thing to factor in with FCPX is that it is tightly integrated with key a/v architectures of the OS. Unlike Avid and Adobe, which have to be cross-platform, there’s no abstraction layer. This reduces the engineering load on the ProApps team, but it also has the negative effect of them having to quickly react and be attuned to changing the app when the OS changes.
The engineers can’t simply say, “Don’t upgrade until we qualify a new version.” That would be impossible within the Apple corporate environment. Apple appears to be on a track to update the OS annually. Often these changes negatively affect folks in the post world; therefore, a lot of effort that could go to features is being consumed by OS support.
The second part is how Apple allocates engineering resources. We constantly hear of how part of a given team has been shifted over to shore up development resources on one app or OS change or another. I would presume this also affects the ProApps team, assuming that an FCPX engineering unit might be sent over to help get the watch or TV off the ground. It may also have a positive effect, with common teams working across the board on interface design and aesthetics of all products.
None of these issues are necessarily good or bad – just that these are issues that impact what we’d love to see in X, versus how other companies operate.
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Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Andrew Kimery] “My 2 cents was that given the $299 price point there’s only so many bases you can expect Apple to cover (and it’s by design). If you need/want specialized tools then you can most likely find them from a third party and if you don’t then you aren’t being charged ‘extra’ for features you don’t need. “
Although there has been, at times, concern that Apple’s hooks may have severe limitations such as interface design (one example I’ve heard cited).
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but if Resolve is free?
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[Oliver Peters] “One thing to factor in with FCPX is that it is tightly integrated with key a/v architectures of the OS.”
[Oliver Peters] “The second part is how Apple allocates engineering resources. We constantly hear of how part of a given team has been shifted over to shore up development resources on one app or OS change or another. I would presume this also affects the ProApps team, assuming that an FCPX engineering unit might be sent over to help get the watch or TV off the ground. It may also have a positive effect, with common teams working across the board on interface design and aesthetics of all products.”
It’s definitely a very different idea of a software editing team. Where you need that software team to support you. One thing I understand is the genteel Al Mooney Doctor Who fan Fincher Coen express behind premiere pro. That is a living mortal army. Although the space bar play has been dodgy for months.
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