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Now let’s have a briefing and a roadmap for FCPX!
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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[Steve Connor] “Now let’s have a briefing and a roadmap for FCPX!”
I’m sure Larry Jordan is still on the guest list for previews, if they are giving any.
A significant thing here to me is a new pattern for Apple and its product announcements. No longer will we learn about OS X or FCP or the Mac from blockbuster press events, but from these more grass-roots types of things.
Another significant thing here is the renewed vigor in the OS X development path. It is reasonable to think Apple got caught a little off guard with the rapid success of iOS and it took them a few years to fill out their engineering to support that whole massive column of their business so that it wasn’t cannibalizing OS X. Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion all had to wait a bit longer than previous OS X releases to see the light of day, and it was due to engineering focus on iOS. If Apple is committing to an annual rev on OS X, even if they are more evolutionary revs, this is a stake in the ground that augurs well.
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Andy -
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Man. No rest for the wicked. I am just blazing my Lion tracks, and now it appears we will have to climb mountains!
I did like this piece of insight:
“Mountain Lion is not a step towards a single OS that powers both the Mac and iPad, but rather another in a series of steps toward defining a set of shared concepts, styles, and principles between two fundamentally distinct OSes.”
An FCPX development roadmap would be so nice.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “An FCPX development roadmap would be so nice.”
Methinks OSes are the only previews the world gets. For previews of FCPX, become a leading hardware partner or plugin developer. I wouldn’t be shocked to see more feature previews for FCPX like we had for 10.0.1 and 10.0.3, but I would be a lot less surprised not to see them ever again.
There are a lot of hints about what could become features of FCPX in the preview of Mountain Lion. AirPlay mirroring (which many of us saw coming anyway) and iCloud document storage (which seems impractical, but who knows) spring to mind.
Best,
Andy -
[Andrew Richards] “For previews of FCPX, become a leading hardware partner or plugin developer. “
How about a user that might like the direction it’s going in? 🙂
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[Jeremy Garchow] “How about a user that might like the direction it’s going in? :)”
You’ll have to wait like everyone else. Including the users of almost every other product out there. OSes need to reveal their futures since they are platforms, but apps and machines only hurt their vendors when they are teased to openly. With a few notable exceptions, it is pretty uncommon for the general public to get exposed to product development ahead of when the vendor wants to reveal it. This is true for many more industries than tech. There are a lot of things that can happen when you let the cat out of the bag early, and most of them are bad.
Best,
Andy -
[Andrew Richards] “With a few notable exceptions, it is pretty uncommon for the general public to get exposed to product development ahead of when the vendor wants to reveal it. “
Come on, man. I’ve been around long enough to know these things! :0)
Even a target date of next release was nice. I was getting used to that.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Even a target date of next release was nice. I was getting used to that.”
It would be nice to have the odd “tease” like Adobe do at least
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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[Steve Connor] “It would be nice to have the odd “tease” like Adobe do at least”
Well, yes. When it’s a company like Adobe that actually ships what they promise around when they promise it.
For every company like them that has a very good track record of actually getting useful software out the door, there’s a trail of broken dreams in the wake of many companies who over promise and under deliver.
In fact, that was the primary initial hit on X. Here we are six months later, and only just now is the tide starting to turn toward a view that FCP-X is actually a pretty interesting product on a fast track – rather than just a mess. Yet 90% of the stuff in the program is exactly the same as it was the day it was released.
The timeline is the same. The event browser is the same. Magnitism is the same. Import, key wording, Motion integration via the titler, etc. etc. etc are all the same.
But now that we have multi-cam, the clear promise of increasing hooks to XML and people actually are starting to understand how it functions in actual editing situations, it’s now “worth a look” where it was once “the toy that will destroy all pro editing as we know it.”
The program itself really hasn’t changed all the much. It operates exactly like X has from day one.
I did another FCP-X “get to know the interface” for my local editing group last night in my studio. Instead of a handful of guys, the studio was packed.
The perception of X is starting to change out there. Big time. Perhaps not in the rarified air of the large shops – but at the grassroots level, things are changing a LOT. Just something to be aware of.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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