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fyi FCP X and pricing
From Apple education rep concerning yearly site licenses:
10.1 is not a new version. 10.1 is what we call a “dot” update i.e. 10.1, 10.2 etc. These are free. If we deployed a new version i.e. Final Cut 11, there would be a cost to the upgrade. If you continue to pay for the maintenance and there is a upgrade in the following year (not a dot update), then you would receive this new version at new cost. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.
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I don’t know about you but I thought X was the branded model like Mustang is for Ford.I thought “.1” was an upgrade and 10.0.x were point upgrades. Otherwise what happened to FCP 8 and 9.
“For the first time, you can upgrade your Mac to the latest release of OS X for free.(Mavericks)”
OS X/FCP X. Apple brand models, no?
Combining Project library and Event library and this library no longer must be on root level is pretty major. Wasn’t 10.1 announced as a “major upgrade” – promised long before its release?
Add to this our school system was refunded yearly OS X collection (pro rated) when Mavericks/ilife upgrades were announced for free, since what was the yearly subscription for exactly?
If the above is correct, I suspect that Apple is transitioning into a subscription model.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Late last year Apple made an announcement about a new version of Final Cut Pro X, my understanding from that statement is that 10.1 is a new version. I agree that this might not be true, at least in the traditional sense of a new version. I doubt very seriously that Apple is heading to a subscription model. Then again, after seeing the stunt Adobe pulled anything is possible. That is just my two cents.
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[Craig Alan] “If the above is correct, I suspect that Apple is transitioning into a subscription model.”
Really? It seems to me that they’re transitioning to a “buy it once and all updates are free unless we release an entirely new app” model. 🙂
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I’m with Charlie.
People have always misinterpreted the” X”. OSX is in fact OS10, just like the operating system that came before OS10 was called OS9.
OSX = OS10
Mountain Lion = OS10.8
Mavericks = OS10.9The same applies to FCP:
FCPX = FCP10
At this time we are at FCP10.1.110.1 involved an important change with regard to media management, but fundamentally it was a smaller update than, say, .03 or .06. So I certainly would not call this a new version.
As the FCP10 updates seem to be coming in small increments we are still far away from the next new version, which would be FCP11. So IMO FCPX updates will remain free for quite awhile.
– Ronny
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I’m fine with all of this, especially if Apple starts insisting on using Bitcoin as a universal medium of value exchange.
WHAT!!!! You aren’t already using this new paradigm? Dinosaur!!!!. The “gold-less” database management
foundation makes going broke so much faster, I feel like democratization is complete.jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Joseph Owens] “The “gold-less” database management
foundation makes going broke so much faster, I feel like democratization is complete.”🙂
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However OSX 10.3 was paid. 10.4 was paid. 10.5 was paid, etc. Since the X is not only a number is is also a brand, I was under the impression that it would always be called FCP X or OSX or (now) Logic X, etc. until there is a major major change to the entire concept of the operating system. (likely the merge of iOS and desktop years down the road) OSX 10.9 is really OS 19 if you keep track in the way they did pre X. And by that reasoning FCP X 10.1 is actually FCP 11. But they skipped 8 and 9 because X is NOT really a version number any longer, but an actual application brand. Just like the OS.
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[Charlie Austin] “Really? It seems to me that they’re transitioning to a “buy it once and all updates are free unless we release an entirely new app” model. :-)”
That model I like. Now if we could only convince someone else to follow this road.
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[Bret Williams] “But they skipped 8 and 9 because X is NOT really a version number any longer, but an actual application brand. “
Actually, it’s not. When I was working on a blog post a while ago I was using FCPX as an acronym. I received a little note from someone at Apple which said:
– please say FCP X not FCPX — I know it looks cooler as a block of text, but version numbers never get combined with the acronym for the product name.
For what it’s worth…
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FCPX is definitely not transitioning to a subscription model.
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[James Cude] “FCPX is definitely not transitioning to a subscription model.”
That should read FCP X. lol
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