OMF and Automatic Duck

[Aindreas Gallagher]

no – OMF is up to us, but as the macbreak guys pointed out – projected market volume directly correlates to price – I really wouldn’t buy duck yet if you can, that price is likely to slide dramatically – As Alex Lindsay pretty hilariously pointed – surely to God someone other than Wes Anderson could put one of these things together wit the new APIs, and the market for one of those things just got an awful lot bigger. well, as long as FCPX actually sells pro seats that is..

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[Andrew Richards]

Probably, though other 3rd parties may also build tools to do so once the API is public. Apple almost certainly won’t add OMF export to FCPX. There are plugins that cost more than After Effects. Are they pointless? $FCPX + $AutoDuck < $FCStudio2009.

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Keeper Technology

[Chris Kenny]

[Tommy Brown] “It mentions OMF can be exported NOW via automatic duck which costs more than FCP X which is pointless. Do you think the article implies support will be provided with an update.”

No, but once APIs are more widely available, someone will inevitably make a cheaper utility for this purpose.

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[Mitch Ives]

That price comparison is meaningless. FCS is an entire suite of programs… FCPX is not. That’s like saying the price of the new engine and transmission is still less than the price of the entire old car? What’s the point…

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[Jean-françois Robichaud]

[Chris Kenny] ” No, but once APIs are more widely available, someone will inevitably make a cheaper utility for this purpose.”

I certainly hope so. However, I’ve been taking a look at the specs for the OMF standard and it’s awfully complex. It seems there is no fast and easy implementation for OMF export. It’s not the kind of thing one can code in a week or two, and it must be tested against all kind of software on multiple platforms. Automatic Duck already specializes in OMF export, so I’m not surprised they already have a solution out. But for anyone attempting to do this from scratch, it’s a huge endeavour, so I don’t know how cheap they can make it.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

mm. That’s not what we wanted to hear, can you rephrase it?

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[Tommy Brown]

Thank you for the insight but I don’t need and don’t want the entire suite, this is one basic function which is all I need and I assume Apple will want us to eventually move away from FCP 7 and not be FCP X + Automatic Duck.

As for your analogy, I don’t want the old car, its old, it may work and I will have to take it out now and again but eventually it will die.

[Jean-françois Robichaud]

[Aindreas Gallagher] ” mm. That’s not what we wanted to hear, can you rephrase it?”

Ok. I’ll code an fully-featured OMF export tool during lunch and sell it to you for $0.99 on the App Store.

Is this better? 🙂

[Aindreas Gallagher]

therrree you go. boom.

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[Mike Guidotti]

It would have been easier to just incorporate it in to the program when they were writing it.