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Tonight’s the night
So tonight we’re supposed to get some kind of sneak peek at new features in FCPX at the LAFCPUG meet (my first one of these). Do you guys think we’re going to actually see something new, or is it going to be just a walkthrough of things that came out in the 10.0.4 update in April? Since we’re shutting down the office early and trekking into Hollywood, I may bring a bag of tomatoes in case it’s the latter.
I’ll try to live tweet (@magicfeatherinc) if there’s something awesome that pops up.
If there is a Q&A for the Apple guys, what should we ask?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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The “multichannel audio editing” that Apple is teasing about on their website. What’s the deal, and will that require Mountain Lion?
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I don’t think we’re going to see anything new. I am usually wrong. As to questions I’d ask how they define the “pro market.”
Tim
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Maybe we should stick to questions that won’t have me kneecapped in the parking lot later :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Since 10.0.4 was (like 10.0.5) really a bug fix update, you have to go back to 10.0.3 released February 1 if you’re looking for stuff to demo. That seems like really old features to be demoing for this crowd.
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That’s what I’m hoping. I’ve been obsessively hitting app store software update all week for an 10.0.6 update, but maybe it will come out tomorrow or next Tuesday. More likely, it’ll come out with Mountain Lion next month.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Good point. I doubt that I would have the scrot to ask the question in person myself. But it’s still a valid question.
Tim
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I’m a bit curious what their official solution is to sharing projects and events over a network would be to maintain metadata across both systems, etc.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Just like with the 10.0 launch and Lion last year, don’t expect any correlation between the launch of Mountain Lion and any FCPX update.
FCPX updates happen almost exclusively on Tuesdays (outside of the Retina update and one of the bug fixes). But there’s no telling if whatever they demo will be ready in a week, a couple weeks, or they might even say “This Summer”.
Keep your expectations low and you won’t be disappointed. But you might be pleasantly surprised.
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I was thinking about flying over for it, but my wife’s in SanDiego at a client conference so I’m stuck holding down the fort.
If you happen to see Mike Horton who runs the group, introduce yourself and say hi from me. We’ve been friends for more than a decade.
I suspect even tho there’s a “no recording” thing in place, it’s likely a few folks will turn on their iPhone audio recorders or perhaps even iChat AV with others from the room – in this connected age, there’s really no way to keep information out of the public streams anymore.
But certainly tweet away.
I’ll keep an eye on your feed.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Actually, now that I reflect on it, I’d put the kibosh on trying to use iChat AV.
I forgot that the Apple folks probably can sniff out any connections they don’t want and pull the plug on them.
After all, they invented the whole damn protocol!
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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