Final Cut Pro 6

[Cody Alberts]

My prediction is that they are going to have some connection with Red Digital Cinema and AJA. Red is producing a camera capable of ALL flavors of video from 4K to DV rez. I have read that FCP 6 is going to be able to handle this in some way or another. Possibly with the help of a new AJA box…

[Walter Biscardi]

[Greg Jones] “Any speculation out there on Final Cut Pro 6? Just curious to see what everyone has to say.”

Just search this forum on FCP 6. it’s been discussed to death and really not much more anyone can say until it’s released.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

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[Ben Holmes]

In FCP 6, the Media Manager will work. Oh wait, no – that’s 7.0.

My bad.

Ben

Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Ben Holmes] ”
In FCP 6, the Media Manager will work. Oh wait, no – that’s 7.0.”

Actually there’s a thread from a week or so below that claims it’s fixed with 5.1. I have 5.1 here but haven’t tried that feature yet.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

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[Sean Oneil]

I mentioned this alreay in another thread. Rumor has it (that’s RUMOR, meaning it could be comlete BS) that along with Final Cut 6, they will release a “Super Final Cut” which will do 4k w/ RT and will cost $10k or more.

As for the normal FCP 6, one can only speculate. RT Effects for all QT codecs would be great. I’d also love more seamless way to mix formats (i.e. HD footage in an SD timeline). It’d be nice if “Motion” was axed and instead existed in the “Motion” tab of FCP. Other than that, I honestly can’t think of any features I’m dying to have.

Bug fixes and an improvement in performence should be expected. I understand that they’ll rewrite the code using Cocoa. Whatever that means. Actually, I do know a tiny bit what it means. It’s how Compressor and DVD Studio Pro were written (notice how those programs have a unique look to them compared to FCP) and that FCP suffers in performence because it written with an older programming library or something. So when it’s re-written with Cocoa, it will be more powerful because it can take more advantage of 64-bit processors, GPU rendering, and will probably support Qmaster distributed rendering. GPU rendering is especially a big deal with PCI-e graphics cards. With PCI-e and the latest ATI/Nvidia cards, we can get a performance boost by 10 fold over the current AGP Powermacs if Final Cut is re-written to take advantage of it. Think of the RT performence you get now with DV editing. Now imagine that same performence with Uncompressed HD or 2k. That kind of thing.

Sean

[Tony]

Yes I can tell you everything and anything.

But after Apple and I will have to kill you to keep it all secret.

So start asking away.

Tony Salgado

[Steve Connor]

Apparently there is no Apple event at NAB, so that means FCP 6 can’t be near, otherwise there would have been a launch in Vegas.

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

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