Future MacOS/FCPX won’t support DNxHD/HR or CineForm among other codecs

[Bret Williams]

Since when does Apple make you pay for support? I’ve never given Apple a dime for support.

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[Bouke Vahl]

My bad, wrong translation. I should have said ‘warranty’.

Bouke
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[Bret Williams]

What warranty are you paying for?

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[Bouke Vahl]

I did not, but Apple sells it over here to people who are less educated.
But, this it totally besides the point. What part of my message was unclear?

Bouke
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[Bill Davis]

[Claude Lyneis] “Apple recommends making a master file, when a project is complete, especially if it used formats that won’t be supported in future versions of FCPX”

Just export an XML of your edit.
As we learned with the end of FCP X legacy – you can re-capture a ton of the editing detail for a revised version of the program if you simply have this form of simple text file describing your editing actions. It’s easy, fast, and there’s simply no reason NOT to store a final version XML of your work as a hedge against future program revisions.

Archive the assets.
Yes, archive the master file.
ALSO archive a clean XML after you finalize the project.

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[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “Just export an XML of your edit.”

Well…. While this is a useful file to have – and might save you – it is by no means foolproof. Especially with the proliferation of prosumer camera formats being used that do not have valid timecode nor unique file names. Plus some have oddball frame rates (like iPhones). There’s also the issue of effects.

It’s SOP in the industry to export textless masters with split-track audio along with final masters. ProRes or DNx or uncompressed will be fine for years, even if not in the FCPX ecosystem. If you really have something of value, then image sequences are also recommended.

So XML is good, but it’s just one of the many variations you should have. Of course, it goes without saying, that the FCPXML flavor of XML is only truly compatible with FCPX.

– Oliver

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[Mark Suszko]

I think my new retirement plan will be a company that does nothing but update and transcode people’s files to keep them playable in the current tech standards. Seems like job security.

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[Warren Eig]

Makes shooting on film still advantageous as it is archivable. I’m not making that argument, but since the shift to purely digital acquisition, archiving has become a nightmare as there is no standard.

I can always rescan 35mm to 1080, 4K, 6K, 8k, 12K? But if I shoot 4K and 12K becomes standard, there is no future proof…

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[John Pale]

Archiving becomes obsolete once time travel is perfected, Warren.

[Bouke Vahl]

[John Pale] “once time travel is perfected”

That won’t make any difference. Apple has claimed the name ‘time machine’ already (as you know), so they want exclusive rights to earn money for a commodity everyone should be able to have access too, thus rendering the whole concept void.
The only hope for humanity is a group of hackers that will find a way outside the grid to travel back in time and kill Steve J.

Bouke
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