Predictions for FCPX in 2013

[Walter Soyka]

[John Heagy] “Curious what you mean by portable? Side car files or embedded into the media?”

I mean it in the broadest sense possible: being able to move the metadata that you assign in one app along with the media freely to another.

Embedded or sidecar as an implementation detail is less important to me (though I could make an argument for either one).

[John Heagy] “Apple seems to be embracing embedded with the Quicktime extended metadata model. Take the standard “Reel” field in FCPX. That is populated if there’s a com.apple.proapps.reel entry in a movie. Most of the metadata fields in FCPX can be populated similarly with embedded metadata. One can even add custom fields in FCPX, and with Digital Rebellions’s QT Edit embed matching data. This would allow external MAMs to send metadata to FCPX via xml or embed the data in the movie so merely importing brings in all the data.”

I don’t just mean the “standard” metadata — I mean all the logging and comment metadata, too.

[John Heagy] “I like that you mentioned AvidDS. That did so many things right!”

I thought about picking up DS when I started using PCs last year. After investigating for a while, I got the sense that DS was five years ahead of its time — ten years ago. As an outsider, it actually strikes me as very sad, because there was a lot of really cool thought put into the original DS design.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka]

[Keith Koby] “I really don’t know much about it. I’ve only seen the mutton chop video on their website. They don’t explain how it really works in that video, but it looks like you need an array of servers to do the crunching to whatever proprietary format they would use for streaming. Then all the rendering happens back in the datacenter.”

There’s a much better article on Adobe Anywhere at fxguide [link], but I don’t expect to see much more about the specifics until it ships.

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
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Paul Harb]

I dont mean major, anything theatrical…anything anyone has heard of or will actually see in a theater. What was the feature you worked on with FCPX, Id love to know.

Paul Harb-Producer/Director
Wrong Beach Multimedia
Dual 3.2 GHz Quad/10.5.5/8GIG RAM/FCP 6.0.4/QT 7.5.5

[Mitch Ives]

[Jason Jenkins] “How about an auto-scrolling timeline so I can use my trackpad less?!”

Oh yeah… that would be very helpful.

And as unpopular as this might be, the ability to have more than one timeline open at a time would have saved me many many hours on my current project…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Dennis Radeke]

We are all looking forward to talking about Adobe Anywhere in the future. It’s exciting stuff.