Mountain Lion

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[John Pale] “Steve Jobs would never allow it, but Tim Cook is much less dogmatic.”

there’s a real point to that. I’m near driven to reference the next doctor – said the Tardis man.
Apple is irrevocably Apple at this point, but it is a new incarnation at the helm.

One way or another we will see change. I nearly buy tight OSX licensing to solve workstations.

We’re a universe away from Umax/power computing?
Given that this is now the largest corporation on earth after all.

One single share equates to a retail iPad for God’s sake.

A microsoft share couldn’t get you drunk.

Forgetting FCPX for a moment – let’s machead system 7.0 drink it in – I mean it: take that, you sweaty screaming Ballmer.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Pale] “I do. I read last year several PC manufacturers expressed interest in licensing OSX but were rebuffed by Jobs. If Cook thinks he can make money, keep people using an Apple product, without having to build less profitable hardware, he might just go for it. I think they would only license it to a few high end workstations.”

it sounds utopic. It would be very nice, time will tell, I guess.

I have a hard time seeing them giving up that much control.

Jeremy

[David Lawrence]

[Philip White] “Hope this helps in some way!”

It does, thanks for sharing!

Question – since Mountain Lion replaces iChat with Messages, does iChat Theater Preview still work or is it grayed out now?

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[Philip White]

Hi David,

I have a few more images to share –

iChat Theater Preview is still able to be pressed – it does indeed launch the Messages app by default.
I don’t have much experience with Theater Preview, but initial launch of the Messages app (as directed by FCP) gives me a ‘Funk’ sound effect.

This could just be due to the fact I have no contacts to share with however.

I’ve also noticed something very interesting – under the File menu, there appears to be a few things missing, namely Edit To Tape, Reconnect Media, Media Manager, Log & Capture, Log & Transfer etc.

You can right-click and have access to Reconnect Media / Media Manager in both the timeline and browser however, and keyboard shortcuts for things like Log & Capture still work as previously.

Could this be a somewhat sly move on Apple’s part of effectively trying to force people into a tapeless workflow by omitting these items from the File menu?

Or could it be bugs / glitches to do with Mountain Lion’s first Dev Preview?

Another interesting point to note is that FCPX actually freezes and ends up ‘Not Responding’ when I try to create a new Project – this is likely to be due to the bugginess of a first dev preview, but still somewhat unnerving….especially considering FCP7 seems to test better under 10.8 than FCPX does!

I’ve made FCP7 render and export timelines, reconnect media, move media with the media manager and launch tape controls – all of which still work for the time being.

If there’s anything you’d like me to test, whether by screen recording or otherwise, please let me know

Cheers

https://vimeo.com/philipwhite

[Jon Chappell]

[Philip White] ”
Could this be a somewhat sly move on Apple’s part of effectively trying to force people into a tapeless workflow by omitting these items from the File menu?

Or could it be bugs / glitches to do with Mountain Lion’s first Dev Preview?”

It looks like a bug because the contents of the Send To submenu have for some reason overwritten the menu items at the bottom of the File menu. If you click one of these does it launch those functions as normal?

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools…

[Philip White]

You’re right Jon, clicking on one of the ‘spilled’ items in the File menu does prompt you to take your footage to the respective application you selected!

I’m under the impression it is just a bug, perhaps I’m just reading too much into it.

https://vimeo.com/philipwhite

[Jon Chappell]

I don’t think Apple would add code in the OS to disable certain functions on an EOL application. There’s no reason for this.

It might be worth filing a bug report here along with your screenshots:
https://bugreport.apple.com

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools…

[David Lawrence]

[Philip White] “I have a few more images to share –

iChat Theater Preview is still able to be pressed – it does indeed launch the Messages app by default.
I don’t have much experience with Theater Preview, but initial launch of the Messages app (as directed by FCP) gives me a ‘Funk’ sound effect.

This could just be due to the fact I have no contacts to share with however.”

Hi Phillip,

Thank you for these screen shots and for doing the iChat test. Normally, if you don’t have iChat open and you select iChat Theater Preview from the menu, you’ll get a dialog asking you to start iChat first and try again. I suspect the reason you’re getting the ‘Funk’ sound is because FCP can’t find the iChat application since it’s gone in Mountain Lion. I’m not surprised it doesn’t work and expect there will be other little things like this that crop up in the final release. Guess we’ll all find out soon enough!

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[Claude Lyneis]

How about making FCP7 and FCPX distinct enough so they can easily be loaded on a Mac. I made the mistake of loading FCPX on my new iMac before trying to load FCP7. FCP7 would start then just disappear. Then I learned it had to be loaded on Lion first. I have learned to “love” FCPX but still need FCP7. Since X is not really an upgrade, why can’t they be independent?

For me it is way to early to worry about Mountain Lion. FCPX and Lion are just now becoming solid.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Claude Lyneis] “How about making FCP7 and FCPX distinct enough so they can easily be loaded on a Mac.”

For all future readers, this is a good resource: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722

Jeremy