New versions on the horizon?

[Russell Lasson]

John,

Sorry to make light of your question. I hope we haven’t offended you or made you afraid to post for fear that me or Walter will visit your thread.

Good luck with the upgrade, whenever it comes.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Universal Post
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Salt Lake City, UT

[Walter Biscardi]

[Russell Lasson] “Sorry to make light of your question. I hope we haven’t offended you or made you afraid to post for fear that me or Walter will visit your thread.

Good luck with the upgrade, whenever it comes. “

Very true. If Apple would just release a road map instead of hiding everything from everyone, we wouldn’t have to amuse ourselves. We could actually have relevant discussions about the upcoming changes.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[John Nelson]

Nice to read the pros prose…

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[Ben Holmes]

Bottom line:

1. Apple always has an ‘up-to-date’ program allow anyone who JUST purchased the old version to upgrade at little/no cost.

2. If you bought it several months before a new version is released, you will a) have a perfectly good and stable version to use in the mean time and will b) only have to pay the upgrade cost.

As I don’t recommend installing any first release on money-making systems (that’s what my laptops, iMacs etc. are for), even if they released FCS3 tomorrow, I wouldn’t be that bothered about buying FCS2 today…

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[John Nelson]

Thanks Ben,

Appreciate your input.

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[Peter Wiggins]

Hey Walter,

Thanks for letting the cat (groan) out of the bag! FunkyTime wasn’t meant to be announced until NAB!!!
Actually now looking at the NDA I got you to sign it looks like your surname has changed to ‘Mouse’

Peter

[Walter Biscardi]

[Peter Wiggins] “Actually now looking at the NDA I got you to sign it looks like your surname has changed to ‘Mouse’ “

That’s Mr. Mouse to you…… 🙂

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Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Well the rumours today are:
…several Pro Application updates that are nearing a public release. Among them is a new version of Apple’s ProRes Codec for its high-definition lossy video compression format and a significant update to the company’s professional color grading software application labeled Color 1.5.

Furthermore, Apple is testing significant but incremental updates to Final Cut Server and Motion 4, both of which should see a release in the near term. Video production houses that uses these applications alongside Xsan 2.x may also be interested in learning that a new point release of cluster file system software code-named “Carrera” is also due for release shortly.
Oh, Logic 9 also…
And Snow Leopard for August.

So conspicuous by its absence from that lot is FCP, which is probably a good thing – because there’s a lot of code rewriting to do 🙁

[John Nelson]

Thanks. I read the DVX / FCS forum on that today and it looks like it will be what it will be. Still going to wait until after NAB (unless they do it before).

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