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This time next year…
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I would hope we see another major feature upgrade for FCPX soon, Adobe are speeding ahead with their upgrades!
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I don’t think we should expect anything until November/December at the earliest, and possibly even late January if we use past update intervals are anything to go by.
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I think that’s a fair assumption. Another minor update in the coming months and then a feature update around the end of the year, as usual. Nothing to get impatient about, it’s doing pretty well as it is now.
– Ronny
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Ronny…
You made me spill my coffee.
Stop that.
; )
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Maybe it’s just me but I’d be delighted if X stays a bit still for the moment.
I keep stumbling into new interesting corners of the software as I edit increasingly different types of projects.
In fact, I just delivered a big voiceover job where I did more than 100 audio clips for a trade show.
After the base recordings, I needed to go though all the clips and prep them for export as individual sound bites, which meant precision top and tailing every single clip.
I was happily using the two or three keystrokes to set and trim each clip the old way (keyboard right bracket to select the in point, play to the out position, then keyboard option right bracket to trim – when I realized that I could just play to the edit point, tap O (X would then auto set a RANGE from the clip start to the playhead) then delete to execute the edit in one keystroke. I’d forgotten that the magnetic timeline made that possible.
Three or four keystrokes became one and suddenly i was trimming 3 times faster.
Again and again, I find myself editing with my brain stuck thinking in the language of prior editing systems, and realize that magnetism and X have changed so many parts of the game.
I know this stuff. But even so, I sometimes forget to apply what I now understand X does into practical terms to make things easier.
And so it goes.
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[Bill Davis] “Maybe it’s just me but I’d be delighted if X stays a bit still for the moment. “
Probably just you Bill
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I’m not sure what’s going to happen in the next 12 months, Apple is probably quite happy with the take up of X and people that use it really like it. I would say also that most of the articles I read about X are positive with cries of “not professional” in the minority.
What I have seen in London over the the last 12 months is quite a large switch to Adobe CC, those that use Avid are staying still but places that were on Legacy are going to Adobe in there droves.
Best
Paddy
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Okay… you’re inviting uninhibited speculation.. I’ll do my part:
I actually don’t think very much will change over the course of 1 year.
Avid will probably gain a few more customers due to it’s formats/resolutions being welcomed into the 21st century, but this will not change anyone’s day-to-day.
Adobe will continue to make inroads where FCP7 left off.
FCPX will stay where it is, for the most part.
Resolve, despite getting better editing tools, will not utilized in that way quite yet.
The over all video market will grow, and therefore all companies will have the pleasure of announcing growth, although the over all pie chart of NLEs will remain relatively unchanged.
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Unless we get it very soon, I don’t think there’s time for another maintenance update this year AND a feature update.
I’ve got a followup blog post I’ll mash out today akin to my 10.1.3 post from a while back. I’m not going to say I predicted the release date, cause I didn’t. But they were very close to the average of previous maintenance updates. Which was 50 days.
Here’s that one-
https://disproportionatepictures.blogspot.ca/2014/08/final-cut-pro-x-whats-next-1013.html
Are there any glaring bugs that still need to be addressed like Copy/Paste before they move on to the next feature update?
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[Steve Connor] “[Bill Davis] “Maybe it’s just me but I’d be delighted if X stays a bit still for the moment. ”
Probably just you Bill”
Yeah, I was just wondering why anybody wouldn’t want forward progress?
And where the hell is the “Send to Motion” function…
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
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