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FCPX wont work with perfectly decent macpro graphics card
Hi,
i know there is another forum for this but i thought it would be good for people to know that the app store wont let you download any of the new apps if you computer doesn’t meet the spec. My 2009 Mac Pro is still fast and works fine for me , but apparently i cant use the new compressor of motion (or FCPX but I dont really care about that!) . That seems like a big excuse to make me spend more money.damn
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and considering Decent Upgrades are in the 500$ RANGE….Thats really lame..
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So for now should I not request an upgrade from my manager since our budget is tight?
I might have to choose between CS5.5 or FCPX
Currently using 7.0.3
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FCP X isn’t an upgrade. Think of it as a new editing app.
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Why do you need to upgrade?
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Why does anyone need to upgrade? Because it comes with lots of great new features and you need to be competitive. This isn’t something that will be fixed with an update. This makes my computer obsolete when it should be lasting 5 more years.
Nick
Nick
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[Nick Price] ” This makes my computer obsolete when it should be lasting 5 more years.”
You never mentioned your computer spec, but this thread is about your graphics card no? So why do you think it remarkable to consider a new graphics card after two years to run a new app with features that require a grunty graphics card?
With FCP x @ $299 the cost of getting this software including a new graphics card is sub $1000. As someone who has seen the absolute plunge in price for power in editing apps over the past twenty years, I can’t see a problem here. CS5 does best with a new grunty NVIDIA graphics card and the software is much more expensive than FCP X.
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It’s NOT a new editing app, when they discontinue FCP7. You can’t buy FCP7 anymore. This is the end of Apple with us pro users.
Ernie Santella
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Ernie, I have three very good reasons for calling it a new app instead of an upgrade. Firstly it is entirely new code written from the ground up. You can install it as well as FCP 7 on a single machine. You can’t open FCP7 projects in FCP X or vice versa.
So for those three reasons, FCP X is behaving like a new app, not an upgrade. The fact that FCP 7 is no longer for sale from the Apple website doesn’t make this an upgrade, just that Apple have discontinued a pro product and replaced it with an entirely new app. The fact that plugins and hardware like Kona cards are also not supported is further evidence that this is not an upgrade.
I think it will help a lot of people to make a decision if they think of this as a new app that is competing with AVID and CS5 for Final Cut Pro users who need to decide what new app they need to consider for their future work. Like many, I will stay with FCP7 and probably also have FCP X, depending on what pro features they put in over the next six months.
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Michael,
I just wish I knew WTF they were thinking??? This can’t compete with AVID or Premier. It’s more like just a new version of iMovie. Ouch. I know, but it’s not a Pro app like FCP7 in any shape or form.We need FCP8!!!
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
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[Ernie Santella] “I just wish I knew WTF they were thinking???”
I think I know exactly what they are thinking. They are bleeding pro users back to AVID and CS5 but the growth market is semi pro DIY videographers shooting with DSLRs. The web is where it is at so why support old broadcast fossils that need messy things like tape machine control, external grading monitors, outputting to online and sound post for proper grading and mixing.
So before the young guns run off and buy AVID or CS5, Apple have plugged the leaky dyke in the growth area, leaving us pros with FCS3 to limp along until they re-introduce SOME pro features.
They are hoping tape is dead and they are actively trying to kill it. They don’t want to pay licenses for AAF which is fair enough. But minimum requirement is proper XML import/ export. Until then, I can’t see any use for an edit system that forces you to try and finish picture and sound within a toy app.
The whole face or our industry is changing and like it or not, Apple are chasing and pushing that change.
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