Next FCPX Update

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “license X’s magnetic approach, “

The “Clip” window is definitely a first step in that Direction!

[Bill Davis]

Yep.

But I’m reminded that I was on Craigs List earlier looking for a backup part for a little RoadTrip barbecue my wife and I bought because we’re doing so much more outdoor stuff here in California than we did in Arizona. And I somehow got backwatered into like 50 posts selling “earbud with a drop stick” that look EXACTLY like Apple AirPods – but really aren’t. Some were 1/3rd the price. Others 1/20th. I suspect none of them actually function like the originals.

That’s not saying they don’t play music well – OR that their features aren’t totally great for what they are – and that people who have them shouldn’t be very pleased that they do.

But sometimes, a thing that’s only “like” another – isn’t so much the same experience at all.

Just an observation.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “All Resolve really needs to do to become a contender for me is to lose the “tracks” metaphor, license X’s magnetic approach, and do something like Roles.”

Keep in mind, the current primary Resolve workflow is xml to and from Premiere and Avid for color work. The features that you love so much in FCPX aren’t necessarily a top need in Resolve.

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[Jay Soriano]

Didn’t see the WWDC keynote. Was there any mention of FCPX?

[Bill Davis]

[Jay Soriano] “Didn’t see the WWDC keynote. Was there any mention of FCPX?”

Quite a bit. It was a big part of the ProAps demo of the new MacPro.
Probably the biggest direct about FCP X news came in two areas.

First, they announced they are busily re-coding large parts of the X underpinnings to take advantage of the newest Metal processing frameworks. This means the next version (widely expected to be in the 4th quarter and possibly at the Creative Summit – of FCP X should be highly “Metal aware”, which could greatly boost performance for ALL FCP X editors running modern desktops or laptop machines.

They also announced a specific capability in the new MacPro to use a new custom card dubbed the Afterburner. It’s a programmible ASIC that offloads ProRes and ProRes RAW encoding OFF the CPU AND the GPU and moves it onto this specialized card. It’s kinda exciting since that ASIC is programmable, so the new architecture may eventually allow the same card to be rapidly changed to allow other types of processing to be highly accelerated in the future. This may be why the new MacPro announced big support by so many third parties including AVID, Adobe, BlackMagic and many others. Conceivably this ASIC chip could be programmed to eventually accelerate codecs or transcodes for other codec formats as well. That’s the speculation anyway.

This was a really big WWDC for Apple pro video editors from the stage.

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