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FcpX 10.5?
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“but this won’t happen(for me at least) until the iPad Pro has USB-C/Thunderbolt connectivity”
I’m confused: doesn’t it already have USB-C?
In fact with the expensive new keyboard you have two USB-C inputs, so you can use one to keep the iPad Pro powered and another for things like external drives, audio interfaces, etc.
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See https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT209186
One USB-C port on the iPad Pro, and another in the Magic Keyboard; third parties are developing keyboards with more inputs including standard USB.
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] ”
I was coming to share this very image! When it comes to Mac rumors, you can take Jon to the bank.
In fact, there was an article about him in MacWorld just a few days ago, “Meet Jon Prosser, the new Apple rumormonger who hasn’t missed yet“.
It’s been a while since there’s been anyone in the Apple community who carried this kind of weight. Maybe John Gruber at Daring Fireball a few years back (not that he’s not still around of course), but really, maybe not since the days of MacWeek in the 90s. A true controlled circulation magazine that you had to reapply for each year, and by no means was everybody renewed each time, it came to be known as MacLeak. I’ll bet you can guess exactly when in the 90s it came to an end, and I’ll bet you can guess exactly why.
Jon had actually brought up the idea of Pro Apps on iOS a few days earlier, just from looking at the code. (There used to be a lot more of this kind of reporting, too, and I’m glad to see him reviving it.)
The “You can trust me or not” caveat in his first tweet comes from people refusing to believe him, even though he keeps delivering the goods. No doubt, one of these days he’s going to be wrong, perhaps intentionally discredited by leaked disinformation, but I’ve been impressed by his efforts to get multiple sources. Any disinformation campaign could become the story pretty quickly. In the meantime, no kidding, you can take this to the bank.
Me, nobody tells me nuthin’. LOL I’m just reading the tea leaves like most everybody else. It really seemed the only possible next step, and more than that, the BEST next step for both Apple and its customers. Those don’t come along often, so again, even if this move isn’t for YOU, it’s something to cheer for the health of the company and the world of Pro Apps including FCPX.
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[Oliver Peters] “I would even venture to say that quite possibly this might even be free to people who already own FCPX. After all, it would only run on the newest iPad Pro, which you would have to buy anyway. But what would really seal the deal is a viable method of sharing – possibly only synced Libraries and proxy media via iCloud. Money comes in via an in-app purchase of more cloud space.”
That’s exactly how I see it. If you own FCPX, you own it. Otherwise, Apple has a two-pronged pitch. One, if you own X and want to run it in a set of contexts that can be expanded by an iPad, buy a new iPad Pro plus One)a): if you have a new iPad Pro already, yes, no need to limit yourself to Rush. Two, there’s this nifty new combination of X and iPad Pro that will make some people sit up and take notice and maybe buy ’em both.
In any case, it’s all about creating new, incremental sales that lead to new services, increased stickiness to the Apple ecosystem with new stuff to store on iCloud, paying for more space, etc.
[Oliver Peters] “Clearly Apple sees the pro side of the iPad, which is why Adobe, Affinity, Pixelmator and others are being coaxed into bringing more heavy-weight apps to the iPadOS environment. “
I wouldn’t expect to see the full version of Media Composer, although now that I think about it, why not? The new version is very much about optimizing for the single-screen experience. But I would absolutely expect to see things like logging and other set-related functions, as well as tasks related to assistant editing.
We’ve already seen Grant demo insane things from Blackmagic on both MacBook Pros and iPhones, but I can imagine a whole new suite of experiences for remote production optimized for iPad Pro in the very near future — anything from camera setup, to pre-grading, to switcher functions. The more, the merrier.
This gets to a point I made earlier, that Apple’s hardware opportunity is ALWAYS going to be larger for non-Apple software running on Apple kit, whether it’s Adobe, Microsoft, Google, or anything else. That’s true for professional software as much as it is for business and recreational software.
There’s already been some very interesting audio things happening on iPads, especially for music creation, and I’m genuinely excited for what might happen for heavy lifting with video.
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Along the iOS lines, this is a good look at LumaFusion with Scott at PVC and Terri Morgan of LumaTouch. The demo starts about 10 min in.
https://luma-touch.com/lumafusion-for-ios-2/
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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There’s a key item in her LumaFusion demo and that’s the upcoming FrameIO integration. The later is a very key item for today that would be great to have in FCPX.
Upload clips to Frame at whatever codec/resolution. Frame does its own transcodes, as is normal. Then from the edit bowser, you are browsing the Frame project – NOT, what is stored on your local machine or drive. Once you edit the clip to the timeline, that clip only is downloaded to your device, optimized to whatever your device can handle.
In theory with some sort of similar FCPX integration, you could select from one of the Frame proxies (or original). This makes a pretty interesting hybrid “cloud editing” concept.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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When FCP X first came out in 2011 and I noticed it’s sliding panels instead of separated windows interface, it wreaked of being prepared for an iPad (or other mobile device) at some point and I wrote about that somewhere here on the cow. Albeit I thought it would have happened by now. Let’s not forget that an important component of Apple’s hardware and software pursuits is the energy usage of said device(s). Perhaps ARM is part of that equation, perhaps not. Though certainly there has never been a moment when I didn’t think that many of the it’s GUI and UIX elements were primed for mobile well ahead of time, perhaps even before the desktop version. Only time will tell I guess. Many things just don’t end up seeing the light of day as market forces change.
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Wow it’s been awhile since I looked into the iPad. Didn’t realize it now has USB-C. Now I am seriously considering one….espc if FCPX 10.5 on iOS is around the corner but LumaFusion w/ XML export to FCPX looks pretty darn good.
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I have been hoping for the day that we can hand an incoming student a loaded iPad the first day of their graduate program. Ideally this iPad would be most or all they need. FCPX for an iPad could be a clincher.
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All of this FCPX on iPad Pro speculation is interesting, but it doesn’t pay the bills for the rest of us. Given our WFH situations, all I want today from FCPX is flexible media relinking that’s at least on par with everyone else. Not LAST in the pack.
I’ve got media spread all over multiple archive drives from our shared storage. I have to consolidate the files to a common RAID to make revisions and that means I have to relink. Piece of cake with Premiere Pro. With FCPX it just sits there in its “searching” mode. Just not a viable solution.
Apple took Avid’s restrictive managed media approach and simply made it worse. Rant over.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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