[Aindreas Gallagher]

sure well, as the man says, if you can’t laugh…

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

hahaha – no bud – that was hypothetical. I’m not buying her, I’ll have to eventually, to sort of see the horror. but it is not installed. I go back to the post house to edit on FCP7 tomorrow.

i’d maybe say – well, see in two years, maybe check back then, but there are problems – the level of shock with what apple has done will I think mean that many post facilities will scramble out because FCP is probably really not coming back as they understand it. And so they need to move pretty fast. The last FCP release is end of life. There is no indication FCP is coming back, Apple have built something completely different for a different market.

so then we have a *competitive* marketplace that has PPRo run by a flash obsessed company, where you can’t pop a clip up onto V2 frame accurately currently, or paste any specific clip properties, or Avid, who are as mercurial as they have always been, and well.. that’s that.
The thing is that FCP was comfortably swimming to a centre point as a best in class application for the broadest use cases, but apple just nuked that app and declared a new interest based on their wider consumer concerns.

Apple really aren’t coming back. That application they released really is that application and its not intended for us. It is palpably a prosumer app, that is what they wanted it to be, and that is what it is, to put back what we need would necessitate a degree of visual and conceptual complexity that apple have never envisioned for this editing application. It is what it is – FCP is gone.

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well out of the whole crowd here, you joined today apparently? then you listened to twenty minutes of two well intentioned, professional men with years in the cow running their own facilities on FCP expressing grave concerns we all share, and after twenty minutes of a detailed two hour discussion you turned it off, came on here and trashed them – I call shill.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

oops – wrong simon, thought you knew dan cullen..

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Buddy man, I’m not over reacting – this is a joke – i can now sit on an imac and prep a CNN ireport on my secondary story line while my files are default saved to my home folder.

this app is not FCP. It just isn’t. Dropping the source viewer isn’t clever, closing the application off wasn’t a blinding insight, refusing to license OMF wasn’t in our interest, making a glitzy GUI that’s palpably, after a quick throwabout on a mates install, slower and less reactive than FCP6 on a three year old machine is just.. look – this isn’t FCP – this application is not FCP.

Having made a prosumer application, much as quicktime X is a prosumer software solution, there is no reasonable weight to the notion that they are going to reverse and re-introduce the necessary complexity of a professional application. FCP was complicated. Professional software is complicated, it has to meet many advanced needs and therefore must expose functionality – this application is none of those things – it is a prosumer application – if they had simply flagged up end of lifed FCP and announced VideoGaragebandExtreme I could bear it a little better.

Say it with me now baby – FCP is gone, gone, gone.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Dear Melanie, try kicking Walter and Rich on apple’s behalf somewhere else please, it’s not going to wash here.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

life is fine sir, and I am an optimist by nature.

irritated:
past participle, past tense of ir·ri·tate (Verb)
1. Make (someone) annoyed, impatient, or angry.

shocked:
a sudden or violent disturbance of the mind, emotions, or sensibilities:
The burglary was a shock to her sense of security.

Really just look at the app, take a good long look, then say, in shocked and somewhat deeply irritated tones – “FCP is not coming back”.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Ha! yes, rather, I did hope against hope – and hey, sure say hello to dan for me wha?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

nah man – that’s just a couple of apple mouthpieces doing some PR firefighting – Apple just doesn’t want things messy is all.
FCP isn’t coming back and neither are its features – look at Quicktime X – they said that would be built up from a ground state and that all the more advanced features would be re-introduced – but none of that ever happened.

FCP is gone.

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