I already hate it

[Sean Oneil]

I think its good for people to complain. The more people who do, the one’s who benefit will be us.

It’s funny. If you think about it FCP itself really hasn’t been updated at all. ProRes is a Quicktime codec, so isn’t that a Quicktime update? I’ve used ProRes in FCP 5. It works. No RT Effects but it works. FCP 6 just added it to the list of RT codecs.

I’ve been telling everyone the mixed format thing worked EXACTLY the same as in v5. The only difference is you get a green render bar instead of an orange one. That’s it. And it’s still shoddy. It doesn’t scale properly between 480 and 486. And it doesn’t add 3:2 pulldown when using 24p in a 60i sequence.

So pretty much all they did was two little software tweaks (1. Allow ProRes to use RTExtreme, 2. Allow mixed formats to use RTExtreme).

I guess they added the menu item “Export to Color”. And you can now export XML v4.0.

New FXplugs. But aren’t those technically Motion effects?

Is there anything else? Kinnda sad. But at least the whole FCS2 suite is still worth the price by all means.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[Mike Most] “Huh? The DaVinci user interface doesn’t even remotely resemble that of Color. In fact, I can’t think of one widget that’s even somewhat similar.”

After sitting in on several daVinci sessions and discussing this with a daVinci artist who is switching over from that to Final Touch / Color, that’s what I saw and that’s what he is saying too.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Bret Williams] “What happened to FCP Extreme?”

Considering that was always a rumor on these forums, it probably never existed.

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[Gary Adcock]

[walter biscardi] ” We’re actually getting two copies of the Adobe Premium Production package here and I’m looking forward to playing with all their apps to see how they compare to the Studio suite.”

you are going to love it with the Aja Cards, takes the app to a whole new level.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Walter Biscardi]

[gary adcock] ”
you are going to love it with the Aja Cards, takes the app to a whole new level.”

Yep, that’s what we hear. Never intended to purchase Premiere, but it just worked out. We really need Encore and Adobe’s upgrade policy is much more liberal than anything offered through Apple, so it just worked out cheaper to get two Premium suites than to upgrade all our apps individually.

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[Paul Dickin]

[walter biscardi] “We really need Encore”
Hi
I manage to follow your drift with most things you share with us all, very gratefully ;-), but you’ve lost me there. What’s unique about Encore?
Cheers

[Gary Adcock]

[PaulD] “but you’ve lost me there. What’s unique about Encore?”

it rocks

it is more stable than DVDSP, has full integration with Photoshop, AI and AE, blazingly fast for rendering to Mpeg, Full Flash Support built in.

AND

it allows you to output your finished DVD project as a self contained Flash file for display on within the HTML specs on the web- with full navigation and linking INTACT, and restricted download to keep it safe.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Walter Biscardi]

[PaulD] “What’s unique about Encore?”

Blu-Ray Authoring. We need to deliver a Blu Ray disc ASAP and DVD Studio Pro does not support it. Compressor 3 will make the files, but I need Encore to author.

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[Aaron Neitz]

I kinda know where you’re coming from Bogie. Personally I wish the apple team would spend more time improving Final Cut rather than adding all these other apps. I know it called “studio” – but the improvements from 5.1.4 to 6 are pretty much just a light wax job, not a clay bar

[Walter Biscardi]

[CharlieX] “but the improvements from 5.1.4 to 6 are pretty much just a light wax job, not a clay bar”

Media Management is still crazy. Still don’t know why I can’t just highlight my offline Sequence, Select the Online Quality and then Redigitize only the exact video that is in my Sequence. I hate the Media Manager and the entire offline/online workflow in FCP.

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