[Andrew Richards]

[Craig Seeman] “H.264 Transport Streams?”

Is there such a thing? I know you can wrap h.264 in an MPEG-2 TS (and Compressor does this for HTTP Live Streaming), but I never heard of an MPEG-4 TS.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

[Craig Seeman] “Compressor 3 didn’t even do H.264 .mp4”

Technically, an .m4v is the same bitwise as an .mp4. But changing the suffix always felt like a hack, even if it wasn’t changing any bits.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

[Craig Seeman] “10.0.5 in July I’d guess.”

Time to start speculating about new features!

Live audio mixing via roles?
Selectable render scratch?
Selectable attribute copy/paste?
Add back ProRes LT?
Versioning that does not require duplication and bloat?

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

Official release notes are up:

Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.4 improves overall stability, performance, and compatibility including:

• Improves image quality and responsiveness of broadcast monitoring with compatible third-party PCIe and Thunderbolt I/O devices.
• Improves performance of multicam syncing and editing.
• Adds language support for Simplified Chinese.
• Adds a Share option for 1080p video on compatible iOS devices.

Final Cut Pro version 10.0.4 also addresses the following issues:

• Assigns default audio channel setting for new projects to stereo.
• Includes multicam metadata in XML project export.
• Fixes an issue in which video superimposed over a background with an alpha channel could appear differently in Viewer before and after render.
• Fixes an issue that caused some titles to be rendered again after each application launch.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

AWESOME.

Those will saturate an entire Thunderbolt channel, so forget doing much daisy chaining.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

Particularly good for the I/O hardware guys’ demos if the first bullet point is indeed true.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

The pattern of these updates looks a lot like tick tock.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

[Craig Seeman] “FCS legacy is working under Mountain Lion so far. Interesting because I had thought that would be the nail in the coffin for Legacy.”

As long as the Carbon and QuickTime APIs are still there, legacy FCP should still work. I think both of those had been deprecated already (at least in part), but that doesn’t mean they are gone from Mountain Lion. Just that their days are numbered.

(I can’t say for sure because the Mountain Lion dev notes are still under NDA).

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

[Walter Soyka] “However, most of us here don’t need UNIX. We need things like stability, performance, and security. For a long time, UNIX had them and Windows didn’t, but I’m arguing that’s no longer true.

My main point is this: Creatives can do their work on the Windows platform.

If you think you need to work on a Mac because you’re a creative, or if you think you can’t work on a PC because you’re not a Microsoft IT nerd, you might have an outdated view of the Windows platform.”

Yep. But you gotta admit, this has really only been true since Win7 came out 2.5 years ago. Prior to that, XP was really creaking and Vista was… Vista. It isn’t like Windows didn’t earn that bad reputation it has been recently shaking off.

Best,
Andy

[Andrew Richards]

I like this preview of what Google Glass might look like once you factor in Google’s revenue model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRF0rBXIeg

Best,
Andy

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