Grant Petty on the new MP

[Bill Davis]

[Jim Giberti] “I also think it was good to make the commitment to FCPX that we did.”

I have to admit I feel exactly the same.

I couldn’t be happier to be sitting here with a head full of practical FCP-X knowledge rather than looking in my personal rearview mirror and seeing 18 months more months traveling the deadened Legacy trail or having spent those months trying to re-craft my editing knowledge around a more traditional style software package.

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[Lance Bachelder]

Yes but according to Walter – a new Xeon with up to 12 cores so still pretty powerful.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Jim Giberti] “I think that’s the most salient point of the whole announcement – they’ve ended the “we pros have been been abandoned by Apple” line of thinking”

by some distance as far as it looks right? Ok I can’t ram two 3.5 inch spinning hard drives, a Bluray burner, and GPU no. 3 in there – but apple do seem to be trying to cook the hardest madser base line specs out of it? And its a core template right?
Whatever else – that is a fully new Apple core hardware design template on the website – They don’t do that every fortnight and they tend to iterate like crazy off that kind of move?

[Jim Giberti] ” I also think it was good to make the commitment to FCPX that we did.”

rather – if you’re in it with X – that thing will likely stand you in good stead for a decently long, semi-playstation period of time?

Hardware and software and all that? X on that thing, when it gets demoed later this year –
– that has got to be a mortal lock to be a fairly jaw droppingly surreal performance demo.

nothing wrong with populist, well advertised, powerful computing – more users means cheaper boxes right?

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[Andrew Kimery]

[Herb Sevush] “But for which pros? There is apparently a cutoff point beyond which they do not care to go. Another trade off of walled-in simplicity for higher end power. I think the market targeting of their new “high-end” work station goes hand in hand with their marketing of X – we will go this far and no further: abandon all hope of Tesla ye who enters here.”

Hasn’t that always been the case though Herb? Things like FCP Legend and DVD Studio Pro helped bring editing and DVD authoring away from propriety hardware systems onto off the shelf desktop computers. Users traded performance for affordable pricing. Same with Color of just a few years ago (or even Resolve running on a standard Mac today). Is Apple changing its standars or have some users, over time, moved beyond what Apple likes to offer?

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Bill Davis] “I have to admit I feel exactly the same.”

bill – god bless you – I think we all realise, that that was a difficult admission for you.

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[Lance Bachelder]

I think 2 6GB GPU’s with over 4,000 cores rivals an overpriced Tesla system?

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Bill Davis]

[Herb Sevush] “But for which pros? There is apparently a cutoff point beyond which they do not care to go. “

Herb,

Look, if you need to run a Caterpiller 994 D – You will have solutions as long as enough people need that to make it a viable business.

But most people DON’T need that class of machine. At ALL.

So you’re right. There IS a cuttoff point.

The new MacPro announced today dramatically extends the class of editors that the Mac will be able to accommodate in the future- but not ALL of them. The question is, how many are left unserved by Apple’s new announcement.?

It’s a shrinking group that contracted a whole bunch today.

But it’s certainly not zero.

Hopefully, the engineers at Premier and Avid will continue to serve the needs of the upper edge as well as those who can’t or won’t adapt to the Apple vision.

But the Apple vision got a LOT clearer today. And for many of us, it revealed a lovely landscape with some beautiful scenery ahead.

I’m going to enjoy it for a while and not worry about what might be over the third set of mountains in the far, far distance.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Jim Wiseman]

Apple will develop software, FCPX, Motion and Aperture come to mind, and so will others.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.3, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Bill Davis]

Glad you’re joining in the global “X-rocks” celebration today, A!

After all, I know that if Apple had announced today that they were dropping X because they’d “lost” the pro editing community and just wanted to focus on making even more iPads (as many here have suggested at various times!) – you would be the first person to welcome me to the hall of tears for comfort and solace.

Today was a pretty great day for us FCP-X “investors.”

Not all of our days will be as nice as this one. So I’m simply going to enjoy it.

And yes, I know this isn’t the be all and end all of editing for EVER!

It’s just what it is. The day Apple stood up and announced what looks to be superb new tools for guys exactly like me. The guys who just want fast tools that work well with excellent software at a price I can afford to pay and that let me concentrate more on my editing – than trying to be a editor/system integrator.

I know many here don’t believe Apple “gets” them. But Apple “gets” editors like me in spades.

They proved it to me this morning.

I have to compete in the open market with my tools and abilities. After today – I can see another long stretch of years where I can face my competition and simply say “bring it.” My competitors may toast me, but only because they’re honestly better than me. And that’s fair. At least it won’t be because they have a better box or better software and I can’t keep up.

Fair playing field.

Today was a good day.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Herb,

Can you expand on why you feel this MacPro isn’t going to work for you? I seem to remember from one of your posts way back that the main issue that you had with FCPX was the lack of Timecode overlays and Sync Markers, but i also remember thinking that the whole Multicam implementation would really be beneficial for your workflow. I cannot imagine that those 2 issues won’t be fixed in the next number release – especially since the new MacPro seems to be far more focused than the iMac.

I ask because I just realized that the Julia Child show was yours, and as it was one of my mothers favorite shows, I saw a LOT of episodes growing up 🙂

Best,
Sandeep.