No mention of FCP X at the Apple WWDC

[Paul Dickin]

[Al Bergstein] “…briefing 3rd party developers at the WWDC on how to program to this new app…”
Hi
Surely what Apple is doing at WWDC is giving developers a thorough grounding in the new iOS5/10.7 APIs, so that they understand enough to take ANY individual app SDK and turn out functional bug-free code.
If you don’t understand the big-picture basics then there’s no chance of the specifics being done right. 😉

Further to that it seems to me (=uneducated guess) that FCP X/Motion X/etc are at their fundamental level going to turn out to be GUI/toolsets which for the most part utilise the underlying OS’s built in routines as the application ‘engine’ – hugely powerful and common across ALL GUI/apps, and built on a common OS CoreData metadata-database – so if you don’t understand the OS you don’t know nuttin’…
(This is a paradigm shift from the way that things have been done in the past.)

Which is why the forward development of FCS X has been inherently waiting for the new cool super-efficient/unbloated codebase of iOS to percolate upwards into Mac OS X. 🙂

(fan)
Which maybe will leave Avid and Adobe and their legacy cobbling as yesterday’s (neanderthal) men?
(/fan)
Hehe

[Al Bergstein]

OS API’s are certainly one thing, but I would imagine that for Boris and other add on app developers there are programmatic API’s for FCP etc. I could be wrong, just extrapolating on other apps out in the world. And yes, likely the average user isn’t going to be doing a lot of additional GUI scripting I would assume.

From some of the screen shots posted in the last few days it appears that they are rolling out a bit of info about X to the dev community that cares about it at WWDC.

As to ‘bloat’ in OS’s, it seems inherent to me that as you add functionality and features, you add size. Most 64 bit OS’s that I’m aware of were larger than their 32 bit counterparts. In total MBs on the disk I mean, not just the address space (G). The OS for a phone is always going to be more efficient than a full function computer, I would guess.

So was there more about X that’s been brought out from the follow on days of WWDC? I’ve been heads down in a project, and unable to take much time to surf looking for stuff.

Alf