Snow Leopard and Final Cut Pro

[Shane Ross]

[Chi-Ho Lee] “And I get the “Preparing Video for Display” when I trim on tracks under stills and b-roll in my sequence…Do you run into that?”

I haven’t run into that for YEARS. Not since I was using my iBook and FCP 4.5 to edit with. A good fast processor, RAM and fast drives SHOULD take care of that. As well as using the codecs FCP likes. I assume you are doing that as you are very knowledgeable.

Dunno what to say…I haven’t gotten PREPARING VIDEO FOR DISPLAY for a while.

Shane

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[Mike Johnson]

I mean, who throws a shoe? Honestly!

[Christopher Wright]

And from all the reports, MAC EXPO was quite a drag this year. No Steve and no new announcements.

Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
Octocore 8 GB Ram, Radeon card, MBP, MXO
Windows Vista Adobe Studio CS4, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.3, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 7, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects

[Mitch Ives]

[Shane Ross] “Dunno what to say…I haven’t gotten PREPARING VIDEO FOR DISPLAY for a while. “

I get it too… and like him, I’m also on an 8-core with plenty of ram and a screaming disk array.

I agree with the comments that FCP is long in the tooth. Opening Encore CS4 and watching how responsive it is and the long list of professional templates makes one realize how behind DVDSP is. You know things are really bad when the new iMovie has a bunch of things you wished were in FCP…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

[Chris Baldwin]

Actually that unfortunatley pretty humorous and true…

I was just asked to recreate an imovie dvd template. Upon much protesting and I ended up doing it for the client but then was only being able to recreate about 85% of what they had built in imoive…

I can’t say I’m a power user of FCPstudio2 but I work every program constantly and while they are getting the job done I would love to have a new OS and a new FCP Studio and a new intel tower. Yes I would like all three.

They idea of taking advantage of the Graphics cards and multicore processor architecture to Speed everything up is REALLY attractive and I hope it happens VERY SOON!!!

I’m really like to hold of on buying a new tower until these three advances are on the market. I’d pay a pretty penny for the combo and probably won’t buy new equipment until I see these.

[Jamie Kehoe]

What bothers me is that it has taken a while for Apple to upgrade Final Cut Pro and the Mac Pro. I am wondering if Apple is going to do away with all the corporate sector and only concentrate on the home users again. Effectively stop development on Final Cut Studio Applications and forget about the Mac Pro altogether. I sincerely hope not, because I am hanging out for a New Mac Pro, but I am waiting until June 2009, hopefully it won’t be that long. I have an older G5.

G5 Dual 2.3GHZ
2.5GB DDR SDRAM 400MHZ
Mac OS 10.5.1
2 x 20″ Apple Cinema Display
128MB ATI Graphics

[Asher Castillo]

It has been a while, but I don’t think they would do away with FCP completely, you could speculate that if Apple did not want to focus on FCP for a consistent annual product cycle, they would probably spin it off into it on theme similar to filemaker pro. I don’t see the Mac Pro going away either, being that is has a lot of other uses than Video and multimedia. I am sure that with new processor technology and a new operating system they will eventually have a product update sooner than later.

[Alex Martucci]

[Shane Ross] “I guess. This dog is working wonderfully for me and earning me a pretty penny. Heck, I still work on shows that use a 5 year old version of Avid running on OS9! Hey, it still works and works well. FCP 6 does all I need, and lots of stuff I don’t. Just because CS4 does more and the integration is superior doesn’t mean that it fits my workflow. I don’t need what it offers. I don’t need CS4 to accomplish what I need. If you do…then get it.”

With posts and attudes like this…we would stay in the stone age……we all need a new fcp….with no more render render render…..

[Alex Martucci]

[Shane Ross] “I guess. This dog is working wonderfully for me and earning me a pretty penny. Heck, I still work on shows that use a 5 year old version of Avid running on OS9! Hey, it still works and works well. FCP 6 does all I need, and lots of stuff I don’t. Just because CS4 does more and the integration is superior doesn’t mean that it fits my workflow. I don’t need what it offers. I don’t need CS4 to accomplish what I need. If you do…then get it.”

With posts and attudes like this…we would stay in the stone age……we all need a new fcp….with no more render render render…..

[Alex Martucci]

yeah more later then sooner……it’s july 6…and nO FCS3…..maybe never!