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FCP X is out – so did anyone find the XML feature?
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I don’t know:-)
I had a conversation with a friend of mine. He’s very talented engineer and programmer. If you ever used Baselight, you’d know the innovative tools he had wrritten:-)
Anyway, I was doing the same thing, that everybody was doing this morning-bashing FCPX-no EDL/XML/OMF etc. The usual litany… By that time he already poked around the code and he was actually quite impressed with what he saw under the hood. As a developer he was very excited about the possibilities and opportunities FCPx has provided… -
I think XML as technology will last for long time as it has so many possibilities
how to use it.Different case is how some software uses it.
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Margus
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Avid anyone!?
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I honestly don’t understand this incredible race. FCP X has been hyped, maybe too much. It’s a totally new, rewritten tool. Things WILL take time. Even though we are used to all these tools for so many years, did you seriously expect it all to be there from day one?
I think we all have been spoiled.
YES! Apple made a mistake by naming it “Pro” as of the time being, but then again – look at the innovative tools. I think this is going in a positive direction. And as time goes by, Apple will add new features and tools.
Think of it as a sandbox. You get the most common tools now. Play around with them. They’re all new, and you need to start from scratch again. Export to XML must come, of course. It’s one of the most used languages for moving things in and out of other apps. No “Pro” app would be without it. But it takes time.
Wanna switch? Go ahead. I’m not stopping you, but I believe it’s foolish to jump the gun and say “Apple, you’re dead to me” just because of this tiny (yet big..) release. You still have FCP7. What’s there with Adobe you can’t do in FCP in one way or another?
I’m no editor, so I really don’t know, nor need to know what Adobe can do… I’m pretty happy with FCP, no matter what anyone tells me.
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I have used premiere for years and i have tested some new ones.
I do not like it still 🙂Usually “pro” people wait 6 months or more to see how new systems evolve and then
change workflow.I think it is big screaming for nothing. Now we see who thinks like pro and who just wants to scream.
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Margus
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I mean, seriously, we have to think about Apple as a box shifting company first.
A multimedia product selling global player which, as a hobby, also happens to sell computers.
Final Cut 10 (semi)Pro is targeted to the ambition hobby filmer who just got the latest digital SD card based camera and wants to edit a proper , friends impressing wedding video without breaking a leg.
And its perfect for that.
I have no problems going back to AVID.
But on the other hand , with all the stuff under the hood, there might be great stuff coming our way.
The old FCP is , yeah, old…like Shake..
Nuke was very empty in the beginning and look what it is today, and what real pro people can make out of it (scripting, automations, player integrations, external flow generation and much more.
I know its frustrating to see a carthasis like this right now, but its Apple, they want to sell great hardware with easy to use software.
Mission accomplished.A slice of color…
DaVinci 7.1.2 OSX 10.6.7
MacPro 5.1 2x 2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
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This is extremely disappointing. Kind of makes me wish Black Magic would release Resolve for Windows so I could leave the apple platform for good. Apple screwed everybody who has been supporting them for years.
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Well, good luck writing Prores on Windows.
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There is or at least was MJPG on win that gave pretty similar compression quality
effect back in the day.I feel that on mac all things are better supported.
PC market seems so limited compared to apple and maybe some high end linux.—
Margus
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But Resolve doesn’t work only with prores. Unless I misunderstood you?
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