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How much money is FInal Cut Pro X really going to cost?
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[Mark Raudonis] “But… how do you know if it’s Cow S#*T or Bull S#*t ? (I’m just asking…)”
Could be a horse jumped the fence?
David Roth Weiss
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Bla bla bla. Get another job.
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I’m so tired of stupid speculations… like someone said, get another job.
Never love a filmmaker…
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[Craig Seeman] “I’m not sure how it looks like that. Apple said to those who spoke to them after the Supermeet that there’s more to come. We don’t know if there will be separate apps or complete integration. Ubillos showed some integration of some features of SoundTrack Pro, Motion, Color but certainly not enough for one to assume the whole suite is integrated, yet. We just don’t know so there’s no reason yet to assume one way or the other.”
FCX should be able to work, as least, as usual with the present applications in the suit.
FCX shouldn’t have any problem on uising the present methods.
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I know you guys think I’m trolling, but I’m not, this is an honest observation, we have 5 FCP suites, 1 MC 5 and Every piece of Kona Hardware you can think of, ProLCD’s Plasmas, etc.. I am making a calculated review of this product and its impact on industry people. And every gets so defensive like Apple is their only child or something.
So how about this, I will eat that Cow Poop if Final Cut Studio is still alive come June.
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Can I be your butler?
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Alexander, you made a wild-@ssed guess without any hard evidence to back it up. That’s why they are all riding you so hard. If you want to play fortune teller, fair enough, but call it what it is, guessing.
…or you can just hold your water until June with the rest of us.
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[Mark Suszko] “Alexander, you made a wild-@ssed guess without any hard evidence to back it up. That’s why they are all riding you so hard.”
What is this, an apple fanboys club? If you ain’t going gaga for FCP X, you are doomed?
2.66 GHz 8-core, ATI Radeon HD 4870,
FCS 3, AJA Kona Lhi“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally
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[Alexander Higgins] “So how about this, I will eat that Cow Poop if Final Cut Studio is still alive come June.”
They’re absolutely going to break up the bundle. We know this because Apple doesn’t do bundles in the App Store. Twice before, with iWork and iLife, they’ve broken up bundles and simply sold the individual apps when moving to App Store distribution. Plus, of course, they’ve already announced a price for a stand-alone Final Cut Pro.
Because the bundle is being broken up, there’s no reason to expect the various apps to have synchronized release cycles anymore. And because there’s no reason to expect the apps to have synchronized release cycles anymore, the fact that they announced the next version of Final Cut Pro without announcing the next versions of other former Final Cut Studio apps implies nothing about Apple’s plans for those apps.
Mind you, one could make an argument that it might make sense from Apple’s perspective for other apps to go away:
- DVD Studio Pro because Apple doesn’t see much future for discs.
- Soundtrack Pro because it might be a better idea to integrate its unique features into Logic or Final Cut Pro itself.
- Color if FCP as of X has better built-in color correction tools than it used to (which it looks like it might). For more serious work there are great third-party offerings on the platform now in the form of Resolve and the coming Baselight plugin.
- Compressor because FCP X probably supports background exporting, which if implemented properly could make Compressor redundant in most use cases.
Of those, if Apple did things right, I think the only app that would be missed much would be DVD Studio Pro. Even even then… the current version is a perfectly serviceable app for SD DVD creation. We’d really only be losing out on a Blu-ray authoring tool. Now, I don’t like Encore much (it’s buggy as hell), so it would be nice if Apple released a solid Blu-ray authoring tool, but it’s hardly the end of the world if they don’t.
Motion, I think, pretty much has to hang around, as far as I can see, unless FCP X has a whole built-in motion graphics toolset Apple hasn’t mentioned yet.
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What do you mean by if Final Cut Studio is still alive? You mean will it still be for sale? Probably not. But you already have the components of FCS. Going forward there will probably be new components available separately. Simply because they are separate applications does not mean they will lose any of the current integration capabilities available in FCS.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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