Of locked bins and collaboration

[Bill Davis]

[Andrew Kimery] “Almost interesting to mention that in the article Peter calls collaborative workflows “… the killer feature for NLEs in the ever expanding video production business.” and says that, “… Apple has built the necessary project architecture that will allow collaborative workflow in the future.” so maybe there is enough interest in the FCP X community for Apple to finally pull the trigger on collaborative editing in X?”

To me, factor one has always been the re-build of X directly on top of that SQLLight Database and how it exposes more than most NLEs of the manipulation of the App to the end user via accessible in the app tools.

Then there was the huge Roles addition – was basically inventing a new way to handle audio I/O without linear tracks – so it’s now potentially got some new plumbing that might eventually assist with collaboration as well.

Now we have Wes Plate and Tim Dashwood on board – both with skillsets that can be seen to fit in the overall “collaborative” bucket.

Finally, there’s the mother of all Apple development efforts in potentially enabling collaboration in Apple Pro Apps – the iCloud server farms they own and run.

It seems like everything in the FCP X first decade can be viewed as laying foundational building blocks that will eventually support some type of collaborative workflow. But who knows. I could be totally wrong on every single totally speculative count of this whole thing.

And probably am.

Only time will tell.

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[Andrew Kimery]

I agree that there are certainly signs that point to Apple adding more collaborative elements to X, and I also agree that we just have to wait and see what Apple does.

I guess life would be pretty boring if we knew all the answers. 😉