When Apple discontinues . . .

[Craig Seeman]

If you go to the App Store and look at the Xcode reviews, there are major complaints about the download size. For many people it’s just not practical.

[Tom Wolsky]

The App Store is a cloud backup in addition to your own hardware backup.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Vincent Strader]

Mr. C.S.
Sorry to sort of derail this. But you mentioned SHAKE. I had gotten into Apple full swing just as SHAKE was discontinued. Somebody told me it was the Combustion of the Apple world.

Is there any reason to hope for some new program like SHAKE to come out or has After Effects pretty much become the same type of program?

Thanks,
Vinnie

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[Craig Seeman]

[Vincent Strader] “Is there any reason to hope for some new program like SHAKE to come out or has After Effects pretty much become the same type of program?”

From Apple? No, although people keep hoping that Motion gets infused with more Shake. If you mean in general maybe Nuke.
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/

[Michael Sacci]

Once you buy the app from the app store you can download all the media from within the app. That is the way Garageband does the video lessons.

IMO, DVDSP is dead as far as we will never see another upgrade to it. But then again there is really nothing to upgrade (other then REMOVING some features, namely HD DVD)

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Craig Seeman] “I usually get my peak download speed from Apple’s servers. “

I have downloaded a few of the Adobe Production Suites (cs4 and cs5). Totally great and easy. The whole process was much faster than shipping and installing from disk. I am sure the FCPX install will go just as smooth and easy.

CS5 Production was 13ish GBs. My FCS3 disk images net out @ 47ish GBs, so there’s a big difference in file size, but whatever. I never ever use any of the templates in FCS, but the SFX are useful sometimes. Those Audio Content discs make up more than half of the entire FCS3 data size, the other big chunk being the motion content discs.