macbook air and fcpx- the new portable edit suite

[Craig Seeman]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “no that’s wrong, a pic-n-mix grab bag of stuff does not equate to an eco-system, the eco-system is outside vendor stuff.”

Whether you use iPhoto, Aperture, iMovie, Mail, etc. they want you to have the same interface. Smart folders is a good example. It’s a “unified” approach. That’s how Apple works, like it or not. If all you ever use is FCPX you get features that a Mail user would understand. It’s the common way all Apple apps find media, photos, audio, video clips. All their apps have common elements. It’s not a grab bag. It very conscious and deliberate. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they replace Final Cut Server with a front end that looks like an amalgamation of all the above.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

and we’re supposed to call the result of all this an editing system?

also…

[Craig Seeman] ” I wouldn’t even be surprised if they replace Final Cut Server with a front end that looks like an amalgamation of all the above.”

what – you mean a future final cut server could look like a mash up of iPhoto, Aperture, iMovie and Mail??

craig, for gods sake please, that makeee no sense. no sense at all. what you are suggesting is insane..

its unholy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbsIlsOlFtA&feature=related#t=03m00s

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

[Bernard Newnham]

“Whether you use iPhoto, Aperture, iMovie, Mail, etc. they want you to have the same interface. Smart folders is a good example. It’s a ‘unified’ approach”

I thought that was the point of earlier generations – all NLEs were growing to work the same way, because that’s the way it works bets. Not because one manufacturer said so, but because that’s the way users liked it. All that JKLIO SPACE worked on Avid, so rivals decided to use it, and all gradually join in. Very sensible for all.

bernie

[Craig Seeman]

As I said, like it or not, this is what Apple moves towards it’s unified interface. This is where Apple diverges from a company that is dedicated to NLEs.

I’ve heard enough criticism of Adobe product interfaces/GUI to believe that Apple’s approach doesn’t put it at a disadvantage. They’re different ways of doing things. Each has pluses and minuses.

[Craig Seeman]

Apple is keeping some conventions and creating some new ones. JKL is still there. They’re rethinking the entire interaction/GUI in attempt to make it easier, more intuitive. I don’t know if that’ll work for some people but I certainly see why a developer would make changes. I’ve run into enough “odd” interfaces. . . Quantel lives in their own world but certainly their products have done well at times.

[Steve Connor]

Apple have clearly decided to go in a different direction, they have a plan,they wouldn’t be Apple if they didn’t.

I’m glad they have, I may be unusual but on the whole I like the new interface, I am working on a number of projects at the moment including a couple on PPro and I much prefer working in FCPX, despite it not being a “proper edit system”

However if I didn’t like it then PPro would be a completely natural upgrade from FCP7, it’s a great piece of software.

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Clint Wardlow]

While we are wishing for stuff on the ipad, why not include an Arri-quality HD raw video camera and a Schoepps-quality internal mike. Then all we would need to make movies is an ipad. And instead of just links to Youtube and the like, you could have FCPX link directly to the Sundance or Telluride submission pages.

[Andrew Richards]

[Chris Harlan] “I’m wondering if I transferred to a MBAir, and through the course of the day, as I sat waiting to talk to clients, at lunch, waiting in the car pool line to pick up my daughter, etc., I could make a little headway on my selects, and then, plug the MBair in via target drive to my 8 or whatever core and use it as a disk. It is SSD. TBolt DOES support target mode. I wonder if I could get enough speed.”

If you don’t mind cracking open the case, or if Apple adopts 6G SATA SSDs, you will be able to get some very impressive speeds.

Best,
Andy

[Gary Huff]

[Steve Conner]Apple have clearly decided to go in a different direction, they have a plan,they wouldn’t be Apple if they didn’t.

Of course they have a plan. So does Adobe, Avid, HP, Microsoft, McDonalds, ect. ect. ect. You don’t become a successful company without one.

That Apple’s plan is going to be successful simply because it’s Apple is not an automatic given.

[Andy Neil]

[Chris Harlan] “‘m wondering if I transferred to a MBAir, and through the course of the day, as I sat waiting to talk to clients, at lunch, waiting in the car pool line to pick up my daughter, etc., I could make a little headway on my selects, and then, plug the MBair in via target drive to my 8 or whatever core and use it as a disk. It is SSD.”

Gawd, that sounds depressing. I do enough work at work. Sometimes I just need to unplug from the Machine. It’s bad enough that clients and bosses expect me to answer their emails on the weekend…editing while waiting in line at the ATM or whatever might make my head explode.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com