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Outpost Digital’s founder Evan Schectman says, that’s it, he’s moving his facility to . . .
Outpost Digital’s founder Evan Schectman spoke at MoPictive (Moving Pictures Collective formerly FCPUGNY) in addition to his usually FCPX demo he said that he’d been beta testing the next major release of FCPX coming next year. Obviously with the NDA guns pointed at his head all he could say is that he’s very happy with the way Multicam is being implement, broadcast monitor is good, there’s other good stuff coming and he’ll be moving his facility to . . .
FCPX on that release.
He feels it’ll be ready to take on their professional work.
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The cat is back!
😉
Put on your body armor.
Jeremy
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And the claws have been sharpened. He admits he likes the catnip.
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Cool. Let the speculation on the “other good stuff” begin!
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Walter Soyka] “Cool. Let the speculation on the “other good stuff” begin!”
Of course we all have our wish lists and fantasies but I’ll play Kremlinology recalling possible clues.
Evan did mention the significance of Lion having server built in, when he made apparently tangential comments but later also mentioned that the separation between Events and Projects was important. It sounds like a clues about FCS like features returning maybe through Lion server as opposed to a separate product.
BTW there was some offhand comments about what might replace the MacPro but only expressed as a “wish.” It sounded similar to my speculation about rack mountable two PCIe slots and SSD but with internal hard drive expansion (I’m guessing just one additional).
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Like 123 months ago, I was all non-diclosured up and working on this project for the release of a Dean Kamen project that was code-named “Ginger.” There was much Internet speculation about what Ginger was. People were thinking skateboard-shaped hovercrafts and all other kinds of wildness. I was looking at Ginger everyday–and it really was amazing; it turned out to be the Segway–but nowhere near as cool as a skateboard-shaped hovercraft. 9/11 intervened and put a kibosh on the release, so I don’t really know how it would have done on its own, but it was definitely nowhere near as cool as a skateboard-shaped hovercraft. Man, that was only 123 months ago.
Here’s wishing the next version of FCP X is as cool as a skateboard-shaped hovercraft
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I don’t know how your analogy holds. Evan is a beta tester as well as a facility owner/manager as well as CTO. He knows what the next version will have and knows what his facility (50 plus seats in NY) needs. He knows FCPX will meet that need. It has nothing to do with public perception. His a businessman who knows it’ll work for his business.
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[Craig Seeman] “He knows what the next version will have and knows what his facility (50 plus seats in NY) needs.”
This is very interesting news, but what’s more relevant is whether this will be the exclusive NLE he deploys or simply another option. And, will he also deploy Premiere Pro or Media Composer or Lightworks? Putting it in as an option for clients is a no-brainer. Committing to it exclusively is having real skin in the game.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Craig Seeman] “Evan did mention the significance of Lion having server built in, when he made apparently tangential comments but later also mentioned that the separation between Events and Projects was important. It sounds like a clues about FCS like features returning maybe through Lion server as opposed to a separate product.”
Another tea leaf to add to this line: Lion dropped prior OS X Server versions’ included MySQL in favor of PostgreSQL, the database that underpinned FCSvr.
Best,
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In his video a while back I think he called PrP and other track based systems an “old way of editing”
and called this (X) awesome.
(I’m not saying I agree with him or disagree on the “old way” just pointing out what he said to show where he is most likely headed)He just appears to be passionate about this “style” of editing.
I would be very surprised if this wasn’t his main system.
I can see where he is coming from. I like this style also. People who like this style are just willing to work around what is missing, figuring stuff will be added later.
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[Craig Seeman] “Of course we all have our wish lists and fantasies but I’ll play Kremlinology recalling possible clues.”
My first thought for a broadcast deliverables (after he mentioned monitoring) was some sort of EDL support or tape control.
Don’t they run Smoke at Outpost Digital? That’d be another clue to EDL support (or they’re running a beta of Smoke with FCPXML support). Either way, it’s good for interchange.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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