I may be mistaking but wasn’t June 9th the day?

[Chris Borjis]

they are scrambling to put back in all the features that chicken little is complaining about.

[Craig Seeman]

I’ve heard mentioned that Apple reasoning is that they’re focusing their resources on WWDC. I’m not sure of the veracity of that reasoning but there’s veracity to the cancelation.

Personally, given the size of the company I would doubt it being a resource issue. They might have been concerned about a media or online community distraction in which that presentation would dominate over the attention they’d like to see Lion, iOS5 and iCloud getting at this point.

Another possibility (all speculative) is that they really are working on debugging and testing up to the last possible release day. I suggest this because I think this is one reason why they were only showing a “February” beta during April NAB and why they weren’t prepared to say much else. Many developers don’t want to talk about or promise features that are still a work in progress because solutions may end up being different than described. I think they limited the presentation to what was locked down and working.

Given the importance of the FCPX, I can’t help but think they’d do a press conference/media show announcement. We’d see the “invite” rumors at that point. I’d be kinda surprised if they threw FCPX out the door into the Mac App Store without a media event . . . but the handling of FCPX PR has been very different than Apple has done in the past so it’s hard to predict.

[Richard Cardonna]

Larry Jordan is hosting an all-day training seminar on the new Final Cut Pro X. In this series of in-depth training sessions, you can get your FCP X questions answered and discover for yourself whether FCP X is right for you.

[Craig Seeman]

Although Larry Jordan admits that he doesn’t know beyond what Apple showed/told him already from what I’ve read. He makes no claims about the release date.

[Richard Cardonna]

I just recivied this e-mail from him. I did not include all the info because it might be considered spam. but its legit.

rc

[Craig Seeman]

Scheduling a webinar doesn’t mean much. They can get canceled. EVERYONE already knows Apple announced June so that’s all anyone has to go on beyond internal to Apple and maybe the beta testers, which Larry has said he is NOT.

In fact I took a look at Steve Martin’s Ripple Training site, who is a beta tester, and it seems he pulled previous mentions of FCPX tutorials coming. Not that that means anything either other than maybe Apple asked him to.

[John Davidson]

HAH! Look what I did!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Craig Seeman]

[John Davidson] “HAH! Look what I did!”

Did you change your birthday?
What’s it been rescheduled to?
How is your mother handling this?

[Richard Cardonna]

Could be. This was included in a countour design announcement. lets see.

[Craig Seeman]

Larry’s got the webinar on his page.
Fillmakingwebinars already has several FCPX related webinars scheduled. I think they’re all going on Apple’s announcement for June release. I don’t think they have any inside knowledge.

I can’t recall Apple ever missing an officially announced delivery date . . . but I’m not even sure if the date announced at a “sneak peek” is “official.”

In my experience, developers tend to do one of two things regarding delivery dates. They either delay them if there’s an issue or they “lock out” the features still at issue and release as is and add the other features once they are completed. I suspect Apple would take the latter route but that’s neither here nor there.