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With Great Sadness……
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[Jeremy Garchow] “If there’s a positive to this, this is what Beta testing brand new software is like.
Apple is showing the world what it means to beta test.”
I think calling this beta software is overly generous. The data corruption described by Jim and others is simply unforgivable in professional commercial software. Imagine if Oracle launched a new version that randomly nuked the client’s DB. No question it would be recalled immediately. These are alpha level bugs at best. It really seems like 10.0.3 is unfit for release.
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[David Lawrence] “I think calling this beta software is overly generous. The data corruption described by Jim and others is simply unforgivable in professional commercial software. Imagine if Oracle launched a new version that randomly nuked the client’s DB. No question it would be recalled immediately. These are alpha level bugs at best. It really seems like 10.0.3 is unfit for release.
“Exactly David.
We’ve had two important projects virtually ruined by 1.0.3, something I never imagined happening by simply running a software program in the 21st century.The fact that it’s not only an Apple program, but the supposed replacement for the actual Final Cut Pro is just mind numbing at this point. That these things happen during the simplest of tasks shows how desperately unrefined this software is.
I don’t know what they did trying to rush out the beta monitoring and multicam but they broke FCPX.
WTFX
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Lightworks??? Yikes, have you tried it? It’s horrible! Don’t know how it can be any better on Mac? I swear to use nothing but FCPX for the rest of my life before using that turd.
Lance Bachelder
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[Jim Giberti] “Exactly David.
We’ve had two important projects virtually ruined by 1.0.3, something I never imagined happening by simply running a software program in the 21st century.The fact that it’s not only an Apple program, but the supposed replacement for the actual Final Cut Pro is just mind numbing at this point. That these things happen during the simplest of tasks shows how desperately unrefined this software is.
I don’t know what they did trying to rush out the beta monitoring and multicam but they broke FCPX.”
What a horrible experience for you, It’s been quite a few years since I’ve had an issue as serious as that with software (Premiere 5.0!) Total project corruption does not seem to be a regular issue, judging by this and other forums I look at, but it’s very worrying to know this is a possibility.
As I’ve said in a couple of previous posts, FCPX is in effect beta software and I have a regular back up strategy in place for all the projects I work on with it.
Steve Connor
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Out of curiosity, did you duplicate your project at any point and if so, could this be loaded without issue?
Oliver
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[Lance Bachelder] “Lightworks??? Yikes, have you tried it? It’s horrible! Don’t know how it can be any better on Mac? I swear to use nothing but FCPX for the rest of my life before using that turd.”
Lance,
you are quick calling apps a turd (you also did with Avid). I think it is important to differentiate between the general concept and design of doing things and the stability and behavior of a program. If you dislike the way an app works and wants you to do things that’s fine, you don’t like it and move on, but that doesn’t make it a turd in my book or rather it should be made clear that it’s a personal preference. Obviously, enough people trust very high profile jobs to Lightworks and they swear by it. For me, a turd is an app that doesn’t play nice even by its own standards – bugs, sluggishness, data corruption, features that don’t work as advertised. I, too, believe that people tend to cut Apple too much slack because its a rewrite (Apple in general gets that treatment). Imagine certain medical or military software behaving this way. -
[Mark Raudonis] “We had several seats of “Final Touch” as “Color” was known pre Apple. Paid good money for it. Never regretted it! As I recall, it was quite stable. It was missing some features, but it was predictable.
can’t say the same for “X”.”
Powerful statement there Mark. I hope Apple is listening…
BTW, the EOL of Color along with the real FCP is a real shame. It was so close to achieving perfection in so many ways.
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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I’ll just say this about Lightworks – if Apple had released Lightworks as the new FCPX, 90% of the FCP 7 users would have sold every Apple product they owned and be working on Windows 7 machines right now. It’s garbage, I don’t care who is using it.
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[Lance Bachelder] “I’ll just say this about Lightworks – if Apple had released Lightworks as the new FCPX, 90% of the FCP 7 users would have sold every Apple product they owned and be working on Windows 7 machines right now. It’s garbage, I don’t care who is using it.”
Would you care to elaborate why you think so? I am not using Lightworks, haven’t tried it, but I am always interested in what’s out there. While I usually prefer to make up my own mind and try things out, if I read someone’s praise or slamming of an app it’s helps to know why.
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You need to try it for yourself – I was hopeful but thought it was a mess. Talk about buggy…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California
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