News from Apple at a meeting with “professionals” in London

[David C jones]

Thanks for the update! FINALLY, a few answers.

[Craig Seeman] “2. Ability to buy FCP7 licenses for enterprise deployments coming in the next few weeks…”

So what EXACTLY will this mean? It sounds a little ambiguous.

Dave J

[Sam Krauser]

Just to let you know…Someone figured out…maybe a starting point for importing FCP7 files into FCPX…https://vimeo.com/26040749#comments

As you can see there are problems…But as he says…Maybe some smart cookie will run with the idea and give us all a bit of joy.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

blam

*edit

Hope some of this is true.

Color being EOLd is a huge bummer.

Psyched about some things though.

[Thomas Gage]

Thanks for the info, Craig! I’m excited for these updates to happen. I’m assuming the 3rd party additions will cost money, but how about features Apple is adding itself? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Thomas Gage
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[Craig Seeman]

Peter Wiggins explains that additional FCP7 seats for existing volume license holders only. Basically it’s a bow to facilities. It’s not going to become available for others though. It seems the decision has legal implications but Peter doesn’t explain. My own interpretation is that my believe that there were license or contractual obligation Apple want an expeditious exit from, might have been close.

[Craig Seeman]

I believe somewhere in there it was said Multicam would be free but it’s possible some would be paid.
Given the App Store upgrade policy (the lack thereof), it may be some of the addition features are plugins otherwise there’s going to be another upheaval if it’s going to be another $299 purchase.

[Chris Kenny]

[Craig Seeman] “I believe somewhere in there it was said Multicam would be free but it’s possible some would be paid.
Given the App Store upgrade policy (the lack thereof), it may be some of the addition features are plugins otherwise there’s going to be another upheaval if it’s going to be another $299 purchase.”

Well, the App Store is Apple’s. If they want to offer upgrade pricing, they’ll add upgrading pricing support to the App Store.

But it also seems inevitable that the Mac App Store will get in-app purchasing features similar to the iOS App Store — that could be a really interesting way for Apple to offer high-end/specialty functionality in FCP X.

Note that if it’s true that multicam will be free, that implies the next major release will be free, because the FAQ says multicam isn’t coming until the next major release. This wouldn’t be too surprising — Apple gave away the first major update after Mac OS X 10.0 as well. They don’t like to punish users for the fact that they ship software aggressively early.

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[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Craig Seeman] “Compressor works in 64 bit but throttles down to 32 bit when using 32bit only codecs”

That’s not what the system requirements would imply.

According to the system requirements listed in the App Store, Compressor doesn’t require a 64bit processor to run. 64bit apps spin off 32bit threads all the time, but I’ve never heard of it going the other way around.

Anyone know anything more about this?

[Craig Seeman]

Compressor doesn’t show as 64 bit under Kind in in Activity Monitor. Looks 32 bit. This is with no jobs encoding so no reason to “throttle.”

I’d think Peter Wiggins is enough of a geek that he’d question that. I’m wondering why he didn’t or maybe his description implies something else. Codec handling may not be dependent on what the app is running in (not that I know this for sure) but Compressor itself looks 32 bit. There is a CompressorJobController that shows as 64 bit but I see that with Compressor 3.5.3 as well. Compressord(s) look to be 32 bit as well.

[Jeff Bernstein]

“They don’t like to punish users for the fact that they ship software aggressively early.”

Laughable. If this were true then Apple would ship a stable OS along with the current OS with their computers. To clarify, when Snow Leopard Server came out, it was extremely buggy and didn’t stabilize until 10.6.5, and even then it wasn’t ready for primetime. They could have bundled in Leopard. In the past , the server team ensured that technical reality was more important than shipping the latest release for stability is more important than features.

Shipping OS 10.6.8 with printing issues, a problem that has popped up twice in the 10.6.x releases, and a bug that brings Xserves to its knees, are just more examples of Apple not doing their best.