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FCP7 to FCPX XML Translation from Philip Hodgetts
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[Craig Seeman]That this is only a 0.3 release seems to speak that Apple has a lot in mind that it considers much bigger than this.
Version numbers generally don’t mean anything these days, so I wouldn’t read too much into that.
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[Gary Huff] “Version numbers generally don’t mean anything these days, so I wouldn’t read too much into that.”
They’re a marketing game for some companies. These days it seems every update to FireFox or Chrome is a full version number.
Look at how Apple versions other X apps now. OS gets a full .x every 18 months or so. Quicktime X went from .0 to .1 with Lion though.
They do mean something and that, in part, is controlled by marketing. Apple calling this 0.3 is a bit of a “shrug, no big deal” thing. It does mean that .1 will be a much bigger deal than this.
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[Craig Seeman]It does mean that .1 will be a much bigger deal than this.
To you only. Not necessarily to Apple.
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[Gary Huff] “To you only. Not necessarily to Apple.”
Follow Apple’s pattern. Connect the dots. You do follow their OS X versioning don’t you?
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[Craig Seeman] “They do mean something and that, in part, is controlled by marketing. Apple calling this 0.3 is a bit of a “shrug, no big deal” thing. It does mean that .1 will be a much bigger deal than this.”
Alternate interpretation: Apple charges for point upgrades, and this is a tacit admission that these features should have been in 10.0. They may feel that users who bought 10.0 shouldn’t have to pay for a point-release upgrade to get the basic functionality like multicam and video monitoring that existed in the previous version.
Of course, I would still expect that 10.1 would bring new features, but those features may not be more important than getting back the missing basic functionality that forced many to reject the app’s initial release.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Gary Huff] “I never said it would be easy, but it’s certainly not impossible. And there may be mistakes, but that’s going to happen whenever you move a project from one NLE to another.”
The key in your statement is “that’s going to happen whenever you move a project from one NLE to another.” FCPX is a new NLE despite its name, but BECAUSE of its name, there would always be the expectation that projects from one should come over completely, without errors.
Imagine opening an FCP 6 project into FCP 7. You get the dialogue box and click update. It does it’s thing and when it’s finished, you aren’t worried about whether the color correction came over. You KNOW it did. The project works and looks exactly as it did in 6.
But import an FCP project into Avid, and you may expect there to be some things that don’t translate.
I wonder if maybe it WAS impossible when they made that statement. After all, FCPXML wasn’t released, and that was the foundation that was going to be necessary to ensure backward compatibility. Once there was enough XML code, the fine people at Intelligent Design were able to fill a market gap. Good for them. I hope they make a ton of money off it.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Walter Soyka] “Alternate interpretation: Apple charges for point upgrades, and this is a tacit admission that these features should have been in 10.0. They may feel that users who bought 10.0 shouldn’t have to pay for a point-release upgrade to get the basic functionality like multicam and video monitoring that existed in the previous version.”
I have no argument with that. They’re not going to charge for catchup features. 10.1 will be the earth shattering new stuff that will have us bending the plastic (but I don’t even need the actual plastic for much of that either, let alone greenbacks).
[Walter Soyka] “Of course, I would still expect that 10.1 would bring new features, but those features may not be more important than getting back the missing basic functionality that forced many to reject the app’s initial release.”
10.1 will include using eye movement to move clips with real time eye scan (and people think gestures is going to be a big deal). Then we’ll spend the next year complaining how insert edits fail when we blink .
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[Craig Seeman] “10.1 will include using eye movement to move clips with real time eye scan (and people think gestures is going to be a big deal). Then we’ll spend the next year complaining how insert edits fail when we blink .”
So Murch will come back to FCPX when it edits with the blink of an eye?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Andy Neil] “the fine people at Intelligent Design were able to fill a market gap”
Intelligent Design, God creating the world and life all at once.
Intelligent Assistance, the Philip Hodgetts company.Given the importance of the feature, maybe the first is appropriate as some feel Philip has just created a viable FCPX world for FCP7 editors.
“Philip Hodgetts credited with Intelligent Design at the COW.”
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[Craig Seeman] “Intelligent Design, God creating the world and life all at once.
Intelligent Assistance, the Philip Hodgetts company.”LOL. Ooops. Perhaps a little Freudian slip on my part. Surely opening FCP 7 projects in X is ipso facto confirmation of the existence of God.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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