OS X LEOPARD DELAYED UNTIL OCTOBER

[Sean Oneil]

[walter biscardi] ”
I’m thinking FCP 6 is not necessarily tied to Leopard. It will probably work on Tiger, just better on Leopard. I have no idea for sure, but that’s what I’m thinking.”

I totally agree with that. No way is Apple going to release a new FCP that only works on Leopard. But like you said, it probably won’t perform as well and may even have features missing if its not running on Leopard.

Sean

[Steve Connor]

I can’t see that Apple shifting resources from OS development to iPhone development is a good thing at all, it’s bound to affect FCP6 as some of the features MUST be dependent on Leopard.

I guess we’ll see in a couple of days time, but waiting another 6 months for FCP6 would be a pain.

[Don Greening]

Does this mean we get to call it “Def Leopard” until it’s actually released? iPhone – Def Leopard? Get it? Aw, never mind. Lame-O.

– Don

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[Paul Dickin]

[Steve Connor] “waiting another 6 months…would be a pain”
Hi
Why has Apple announced this at this time, 3 days before the NAB keynote?
To get the negative out the way, so they can speak positively?

But a new 64-bit FCS will need a 64-bit OS, so that will have to wait till NAB 2008 soonest 🙁
And its been explained that this is not a trivial rewrite, to keep the application speed up in a 64-bit CPU-space.

So do we get a free FCP 5.5 instead on Sunday?
That would be positve. That would reward us all for paying for the UB 5.1 upgrade – without it we couldn’t benefit from a semi-major upgrade.

Or maybe they do announce a pay-for version 6.
Will that effectively reward the non-UB old v5.0 users – they pay for this just the once but we with the 5.1 upgrade will have paid twice…

My 2p thought is that the longer the major FCP upgrade is in coming, the more likely the development team will have undertaken the major rewrite that is in everyones best interests.
And taking the suite 64-bit is as good an excuse for that ground-up revision as any.

Judge from the fact that Apple haven’t sorted Logic Pro out yet, five years on from the acquisition of eMagic.

So another negative that I expect they want us to get out of the way before Sunday is that all good things only come to those who wait – patiently 😉

[Tom Wolsky]

There’s not such thing as MUST in software.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Tom Wolsky]

There is nothing that requires Apple to update at NAB. If a product’s ready they’ll release it. FCP5 I think was released in December. If there is a 64-bit compliant version with no new features it could be released as a point upgrade at any time.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Paul Dickin]

In which alternative universe does Apple sit quietly in a corner whilst Adobe trumpets their new Mac-compatible wares up to the rafters?

[Steve Connor]

We’ll find out in 48 hours – my money is on an almost immediate release of whetever they announce.

[Michael Bloodgood]

Let us not forget that Tiger is “mostly 64 bit” in an analogy to “He is only ‘mostly dead'”
The only major components of Tiger that are currently not 64 bit are User interface, CocoaLib (however if the code were written in 64 bit Cocoa, then it would run as a 64 bit app), CarbonLib, and ADLib. These are all user level components and about half of FCP’s components are below the user level. The new OS would remove the bottleneck of converting to 32 bit for the user level.

All that to say that FCP 6 is not dependent on 64 bit processes under Leopard although it could possibly be dependent on something else which would suck. (something gay like Core Animation)

[Michael Bloodgood]

I’m not saying that Core Animation is gay but it would just be lame if FCP was dependent on it.