Thoughts on 10.1.2

[Walter Soyka]

[Jeremy Garchow] “But as we’ve mentioned on this forum before, if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

Just in case anyone has forgotten (though I’m honestly not sure how that would be possible):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Mitch Ives]

Excellent thoughts Oliver.

I do like what we just got… some small things that are huge for some of us. Is it enough… I guess that’s a subjective thing.

The “refinement” thing is a good point. As someone else pointed out, it does seem that Apple lost a lot of time changing the whole file structure thing. Someone else’s theory that they initially designed it the way that made sense and then realized that they needed to change it to facilitate group workflows makes as much sense as anything I’ve heard.

I’m hoping that all the new features are waiting on the new OS. If not, then you’re refinement theory could be spot on…

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

[Marcus Moore]

I would love to know this. I’m only 1/4 way into a 40ep series on X, and I require both XMLs into Resolve (which I hear works fine), and X2Pro for ProTools, which I’ve heard will need to be updated for the new XML 1.4.

[Marcus Moore]

I think it’s too easy to assume that any of the bigger feature wants (mixing, UI enhancements, collaborative workflow) are waiting for the next OS update.

Well, Collaboration maybe… Since if Apple has a collaborative workflow in the works it will certainly be tied to iCloud- so recent enhancements there could be the key to better multi-editor situations.

Before the 10.1.2 update was released this week, many here and on other forums were convinced that it wouldn’t make sense for Apple to update now before Yosemite was released, potentially in October/November. But I can’t imagine that everything we’re looking for needs unreleased code to happen.

Of course, with 10.1.2 now out, I don’t think we’ll see another feature update before Yosemite. Maybe a quickie 10.1.3 bug fix during the Summer, but if there’s another feature update planned for this year, it will be on the other side of Yosemite and probably VERY LATE in 2014.

[Craig Alan]

I like sparse images still because my needs are the opposite of many environments. Running a school lab means many people share the same computers but do not want the same media/libraries shared with others. With images I can control who sees what.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “It seems like ProApps has shifted into a refinement mode. That’s great, but there is a noticeable lack of new features in the update. Does that signal to users that Apple is perfectly happy with the design and function of the app just the way it is?”

Perfectly happy? Highly doubtful. But what other app gets huge new features with every release? And for me, tighter integration with Motion is MUCH higher on my list than an audio mixer. Never used it in 7, so I don’t miss it here.

Good, solid update. Consolidating it’s position, if you will.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Oliver Peters]

[Scott Witthaus] “But what other app gets huge new features with every release?”

Premiere Pro.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Scott Witthaus]

uh, no. 😉

While I heard there was a CC release recently and Premiere just got a few, most were to AE. Is this not true?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Walter Soyka]

[Scott Witthaus] “While I heard there was a CC release recently and Premiere just got a few, most were to AE. Is this not true?”

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new.html

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “It’s interesting to think what they could have got done these last two years – if they hadn’t had to walk back the entire project/event/library/storage paradigm architecture. That feels, looking back, like a bit of a time sink for cupertino.
“

Did they walk it back, or was this the plan all along? For me, it feels like a measured plan. It’s been a bt rough-shod at times, but the capabilities of Events have simply been folded in to a more powerful (and Finder logical) Library.

You have to remember, this is a brand new architecture, built on brand new and changing OS foundations, this may be as fast as they can go, or at least as fast as they want to go. They are also writing a new XML language to express this new format in a text language, as well as developing industry standard codecs for expensive post and acquisition.

[Aindreas Gallagher] “could there be another year zero looming for video apps on iOS/OSX?”

Of course, there is. Wouldn’t you expect it at this point? And if there is, will we not survive it? Again?

I’m not worried about it, but I do feel that FCPX is going for the longer haul. At some point, they will need to nuke it when it doesn’t make sense anymore. For now, and this will sound corny I’m sure, I look at how my 2 year old son is already interacting with the world. He doesn’t pick up the phone and call grandma, he talks to her on a video chat, and asks to video chat almost every day. This is how he will know the world, in moving pictures and sound, and he will be able to share those experiences instantly to whomever he wants through a wide array of options.

I’m not saying that FCPX was created for this reason, but I do think it is geared towards that type of potential, and less about loudness meters.

At least there are options out there if X isn’t lining up with expectations.

Jeremy