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New FCP update from Apple
Any takers?
FCP Studio 2
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No Biggie for us. Our MacPro’s are 2008’s
Looks like it is not the “Sideways” some are waiting for.Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 Release Notes
This section contains release information about Final Cut Pro 6.0.6.
Improved Real-Time Playback on Certain Mac Pro and Xserve ModelsFinal Cut Pro 6.0.6 improves real-time playback capabilities with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models when working with complex sequences or high-bandwidth media formats.
Victor
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[Victor Perez] “Looks like it is not the “Sideways” some are waiting for. “
The what? Sideways?
Shane
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I know its just another rumor to chase around…
Apple has been recruiting the help of professional video editors, asking them to test out major updates to the Final Cut line of software, say sources. The biggest of these is Final Cut Studio 3.0, incorporating Motion and Final Cut Pro among other production utilities. The suite is allegedly codenamed “Sideways,” and currently in the middle of beta testing, as well as compatibility checks with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
https://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/29/final.cut.30.in.testing/
Victor
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Ah…a code name.
Shane
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I don’t think it applies to this rumor but I thought it interesting of the article that came out in the Wall Street Journal about the secrecy of Apple and how they give some of their employees false code names inorder to find leaks. I’m sure this is how Final Cut Extreme made it’s way into the Cow.
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I have a friend who’s an aerospace engineer for Northrop (what he does he can’t tell us. it’s all cloak and dagger classified work). He has college buddies who work for Apple: apparently it’s not fun. Grueling slave-like hours, deadlines that you really die if you don’t meet, 1984 levels of surveillance and secrecy, and everyone is paranoid of everyone else… if you leak info to the wrong level of security clearance you are in hot water.
but at least FCP has a nice delicate color scheme 🙂
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[Devin Crane] “about the secrecy of Apple and how they give some of their employees false code names inorder to find leaks. I’m sure this is how Final Cut Extreme made it’s way into the Cow.
“They’ve been doing this for years. Each beta tester is given a different code name. If that code name appears on a rumor site or anywhere else, then you know who leaked the information. Many large companies do this as regular practice.
Extreme was something that a rumor site came out with I think two years ago now.
Funny though, Apple has a very VERY small beta program when it comes to FCP so that’s why the thing is so full of bugs whenever a new version comes out. Very minimal testing in real world situation and multiple system setups. So you get a lot of folks who will immediately start reporting problems, some of them major, because they have a setup that was not used in testing.
The beta program used to be a lot larger and then they cut most everyone after FCP 4 I believe. Real shame because those who want to be first generally end up falling in the traps so the rest of us can avoid them.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[walter biscardi] “The beta program used to be a lot larger and then they cut most everyone after FCP 4 I believe. Real shame because those who want to be first generally end up falling in the traps so the rest of us can avoid them.”
It is a bit of a shame. Many programs I use outside Final Cut (like Nuke or Autodesk products) have a very active beta community and conversation with their user base. You know what they’re planning and they keep you abreast of issues.
I can see why the secrecy is so important to their business model in regards to hardware. But I would think a niche product like Final Cut could be a little more user driven…. it’s not like there’s a ton of competition for video editing software. Avid is dying a slow death, Premier is marginal, and everything else is specialty software.
But alas, the product is good. I stand by it despite the pain it causes sometimes 🙂
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[Aaron Neitz] “It is a bit of a shame. Many programs I use outside Final Cut (like Nuke or Autodesk products) have a very active beta community and conversation with their user base. You know what they’re planning and they keep you abreast of issues.
“Same here. It really takes the “Pro” out of Final Cut Pro. It just skews everything so that FCP is guaranteed to work only in very VERY specific configurations and formats. When you add several hundred testers to the mix, you suddenly find out a lot of issues that could have been avoided prior to the software release. So what you end up with is a ton of negative postings about all the things FCP does wrong.
Which is why when a new FCP product comes out, I order it, but it sits on the shelf for at least two to three weeks to see what folks out there have to say and also give all my vendors time to test it out with the various cards, disc arrays and such. It’s amazing how many of the hardware / software vendors see the software the same time we do.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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