New Motion!

[Gary Huff]

[John Davidson] “Compressor is BEAUUUUUTIFUL!”

I wonder if it’s 64-bit now too?

[Mitch Ives]

[Helmut Kobler] “Love the sound of the new “Libraries” function in FCPX…also “Project Snapshots””

Just some of the things from FCP7 that we wanted back…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Andrew Richards]

[Gary Huff] “I wonder if it’s 64-bit now too?”

32-bit so far in my limited testing. I tried to get it to spawn 64-bit subprocesses by choosing what should be AVFoundation tasks (ProRes HQ to ProRes LT or ProRes to H.264 for Apple Devices) and still got 32-bit subprocesses. Qmasterd is (and has been) 64-bit, but it does not seem to be called upon even when enabling clustering and making a “cluster” out of the local machine.

Best,
Andy

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Richards] “32-bit so far in my limited testing.”

Well, crap. Hopefully the output has been improved. Never have cared for the quality of Compressor’s output, especially its scaler, yikes.

[Andrew Richards]

[Gary Huff] “Well, crap. Hopefully the output has been improved. Never have cared for the quality of Compressor’s output, especially its scaler, yikes.”

In fairness, the 32-bittedness is to permit compatibility with the legacy formats it still supports. I’m not sure why it also spawns 32-bit processes to handle what had been 64-bit jobs in the last version. I’m also not sure it matters with respect to performance.

Best,
Andy

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Richards] “I’m also not sure it matters with respect to performance.”

It probably doesn’t now, but it’s still nice to have. Though, I think an improvement in the visual output that it does would be more welcome than 64-bit at this point when it gets right down to it.

[Chris Harlan]

[John Davidson] “Looks like it’s not shipping till January. WAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

And now, its Feb.!

[John Davidson]

I let our local Apple store take my order yesterday. They didn’t submit it until 7am. We’re not getting ours till Feb now. Pretty bummed out about that.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.