[Andrew Richards]

[MIke Guidotti] “Most schools have shared edit bays which require multiple user logins as well as SAN storage. That basically rules iMovie X out. oh, sorry FCP X.”

How is FCPX incompatible with either of those?

FCPX won’t let you put Events or Projects on a SAN (yet) since there’d be data collisions from multiple users hitting the same location, but you can edit from SAN-hosted media. Just uncheck the box that copies media to the Event.

And multiple user accounts? You’re going to have to explain why you think those are incompatible with FCPX…

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

Probably, though other 3rd parties may also build tools to do so once the API is public. Apple almost certainly won’t add OMF export to FCPX. There are plugins that cost more than After Effects. Are they pointless? $FCPX + $AutoDuck < $FCStudio2009.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

That would be a little more civil. Remember, reasonable people can disagree.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

“Luddite” and “fanboy” are both perjoratives. I’ve seen far more use of the latter than the former this past week.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

Selling hardware is always Apple’s thinking, in everything they do. iTunes Music sells iPods. iOS and the App Store sells iPhones. OS X and iLife sells Macs. Pro Apps sell the most expensive Macs. Apple makes very little money on software compared to the money they make on hardware.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

FCPX actually runs rather well on my MacBook Air, though I’m limited to the internal SSD, which is fast enough for light ProRes work. With Thunderbolt, any Mac can be a workstation since the last big bottleneck, storage bandwidth, has been removed. The Sandy Bridge Intel i5 and i7 chips that come on Thunderbolt Macs are very stout, and so far all the Thunderbolt Macs support up to 16 GB RAM.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

Adam,

I apologize for mischaracterizing your career. I only know your work from the excellent web spots you’ve done and Put This On. You’re most gracious. I too am cautiously optimistic.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

“Bold” does not mean good (though it is all too often heaped as praise, that isn’t the definition of the word). Bold is often foolhardy. Whatever you think of FCPX, the way Apple went about releasing it was certainly “bold, careless and ham-fisted”.

I posted the article because it read to me like even the guys FCPX is supposedly perfect for think this was badly handled.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

Apple is probably happy to leave the grading market to Resolve and Nuke.

Best,
Andy Richards

VP of Product Development
Keeper Technology

[Andrew Richards]

[Michael Aranyshev] “Can I buy non-magnetic timeline module?”

Sure.

Sorry if that is a bit pithy, but you’re asking for an entirely different UI metaphor.