New rumor: Apple to abandon FCPX

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Audition is a very interesting Parallel. The setup is exactly the same.

A large body of users, marooned for a few years with no real changes, given a program missing critical features, no backwards compatibility, truncated output options, kepping both versions on one computer and having to use both… even a lead developer who doesn’t seem to understand what pro’s need. It’s been very wird déjà vu with FCPX.

Except, there’e one big diference.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/838570

That thread is the diference. It was started on apr. 14th and the posts just keep coming.

If you want some interesting reading, read through that. You might see what this could of been like if apple didn’t do things the way they do.

[Keith Rocheck]

[John-Michael Seng-Wheeler] “If you want some interesting reading, read through that. You might see what this could of been like if apple didn’t do things the way they do.”

It comes down to core-competency. Adobe is a software company. They have a general history of building great software and building on existing software they’ve bought. I was scared to death for my favorite Macromedia products, specifically Dreamweaver and Fireworks. I was 100% certain Fireworks would be on the chopping block when Macromedia was bought out, but it wasn’t. Dreamweaver could have been out in favor of Adobe’s own GoLive. It’s clear Adobe wanted Flash … they could have taken it and let the rest go, but they didn’t.

Adobe bought Syntrillium … I used Cool Edit Pro 2.0, then Audition 1.5, etc. I’ve been scared for it, but Adobe doesn’t have that history of being a company where good programs go to die. When Soundbooth came out I was sure that Audition would die, and I knew the reason: it’s too hard to port it over to Mac. Yet, even still they haven’t let it die, and have proven to me still yet they care. Now, I do want to be able to open my old projects, but now that its in CS I can do more through Premiere integration than hopefully ever before. There’s good and bad, but I have CD’s and other project created in Audition that I’d love to open again at some point.

The point is simple, though … Adobe is a software company.

Apple is not a software company. Desktop applications are not their bag … I honestly doubt they ever were. The apps were ways to compel people to buy their computers. It truly was/is (I guess). I’m not surprised with their moves because they do make good hardware, and great OS’s to run on them. That’s their bag … hardware and software platforms. Software is a means to an end for them. Reality it FCP7 did that job fairly well, but FCPX will do it a lot better, save the FCP7 users that will continue to use hardware … it’s still a win for Apple.

Point is … I trust Adobe when it comes to software. Apple, not so much.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Although there is a free conversion utility to open old sessions in AA5.5:

https://www.aatranslator.com.au/ses2sesx.html I don’t know how well it works, but it is free.

[Michael Rooney]

It works exceptionally well – I know I was part of the team that wrote it 😉

It will convert CEP ses files back to v1.2 and all AA ses files.
For AA3 it will convert all internal fx currently supported by CS5.5 and from memory the only thing it doesn’t convert is EQ automation and thats probably just down to laziness.

For a donation of $20 it will convert supported fx for AA1.5 & AA2 as well as some supported external vsts.

Yes it is pretty good IMO.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

You might want to fix your site then. It kinda implies that converting fx, fades and automation ect. is only for ses files from AA2, not AA2 and 3

You simply need to delete the words: In addition from AA1.5 till AA3 and have it just say: “In addition from AA1.5” having the “till AA3” implies that this is the end of the additive list, and the features below are only for the versions specifically listed.

I know it sounds like I’m splitting hairs, but when I looked at the website I was confused, which is probably the only reason I didn’t download it yet, cause I though it didn’t really fully work except for AA2?

—This has been a report from John-Michael, the Rogue Copy Editer—

[Michael Rooney]

Thanks John-Michael

And here I was thinking that the hardest thing I had to worry about was decyphering PT session files – I’m an Aussie what do I know about the English language – LOL

Point taken – your input is most appreciated and the site has now been modified.

Cheers
Michael