NAB and FCP X

[Al Levine]

Maybe something great at the Super Meet. The agenda as of now is “super secret”…

[Steve Connor]

I heard a rumour that Apple won’t be at NAB 🙂

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[Al Levine]

They were two years ago to introduce X!

[Steve Connor]

[Al LeVine] “They were two years ago to introduce X!”

Not AT the show though!

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[David Mathis]

Just for the fun of it, maybe Final Cut Pro X will give us tracks and the ability to work with tape and import Final Cut Pro 7 projects, and versions prior. Maybe, just maybe a send to Motion feature will be implemented as well. Just a guess, nothing more.

Oh, maybe they will announce the new Mac Pro, time will tell.

[Marcus Moore]

[David Mathis] “Just for the fun of it, maybe Final Cut Pro X will give us tracks and the ability to work with tape and import Final Cut Pro 7 projects, and versions prior. Maybe, just maybe a send to Motion feature will be implemented as well. Just a guess, nothing more.

Tracks make no sense with the magnetic timeline. The audio elements need to be able to move for it to work, otherwise the track data would be useless. I think we’ll ultimately get what we want, but it won’t be in the way you think. I’m personally betting Roles will be expanded to fill the organizational tasks that tracks are for. So unless Apple abandons several ideas fundamental to FCPX (and I hope they don’t), tracks aren’t coming.

I’m also very dubious that Apple will integrate tape I/O at this stage.

Motion round-tripping. Yes, please.

[David Mathis] Oh, maybe they will announce the new Mac Pro, time will tell.”

Apple have never announced new hardware at NAB. They’d make a bigger splash at WWDC in June.

[Marcus Moore]

True. They were last at NAB in 2007. Their last two appearances [FCS2 in 2008 and FCPX in 2011] were both at the Supermeet.

[Marcus Moore]

It’s really tough to figure what’s going to happen. Things have been relatively quiet on the FCPX front since October when 10.0.6 was released.

I was actually half expecting a second maintenance 10.0.8 release in the last few weeks to fix the plug-in bugs. If they did, I could have seen a demo presentation at the Supermeet next month, with 10.0.9 or 10.1 release in June. But we’re so close to NAB now, I think we might be headed for another feature release.

This is going to be the first year I’ve ever made it to NAB, so I’m selfishly hoping they do put in an appearance.

[Craig Seeman]

I hear rumor of a “secret meeting” as Apple has done previously. I don’t doubt it’s a meeting with journalists an decision makers for some key bit of news. Of course we don’t know which key(s) though.

[Charlie Austin]

[David Mathis] “maybe Final Cut Pro X will give us tracks “

God I hope not. Expanded organizational capabilities for Roles would be nice. The next version of X seems like it’ll be pretty major. Or, they’ve given up. Everyone back to Avid and Pr! (gouges out eyeballs)

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