Andrew Richards
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[Jeff Bernstein] “There is a lot of focus on those ho already have FCP7. Just don’t upgrade. Fine. But happen to thbose folks that already have a couple of seats of FCP7, work on a SAN, need those features in FCP7 that are missing in FCPX AND need to add more licenses?”
I saw a copy for sale at B&H today. I bet they have a whole pallet of them in the warehouse.
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Interesting. Maybe an API is hiding in there…
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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[Tom Daigon] “sure lets wait 6 months…no maybe 9 months seems fair… but in 12 months we are sure to get what we need…then again 15…”
Sorry, not following. You absolutely MUST upgrade your editing software NOW?
All I’m saying is everyone needs to judge for himself what the right path forward is. FCPX is brand new, v1.0, not even 24 hours on the market. It is also probably just as big a leap from FCP7 as Premiere Pro or Media Composer would be. If today is all you needed to see to feel justified in switching to Adobe or Avid for your NLE, then by all means do what you need to do.
If FCPX hasn’t seen a few incremental updates over the next several months, I’ll be disappointed. I’m not prepared to write it off as a failure before it is a day old.
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[Tom Daigon] “He knew this was coming quite a while ago so Im sure some contingency plans were made. No need to jump off a bridge when you have a backup plan.”
And how are you any different? Mark may have had early access to FCPX in the private beta, but what advantage does that give him planning what to do next?
None.
Every pro making a living on FCP is in the same boat; either FCPX is ready for them to use today or it isn’t, and they can wait for it to get there or they can say “screw it” and jump to another platform.
The sky didn’t fall today. No one is forcing any FCP7 users to adopt FCPX. You’d think Apple had automatically invalidated all the FCP7 licenses over the Internet the way people are reacting around here…
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WOW!
The guy with one of the largest commercial FCP shops in the world isn’t jumping off any bridges!
Maybe the Chicken Littles around here could learn something from him…
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[Paul Kerby] “Many features are innovative and awesome but they went to far screwing with the timeline and back end project setup… It wasn’t broken and now it is… “
LOL!
Yeah, I never had any problems with corrupt .fcp files or baffling mismatched renders or sequences that just didn’t behave as they should…
Get real.
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The Qmaster processes that do the encoding are 64 bit though. Compressor.app just submits the jobs to the qmaster processes, even if the UIs have been consolidated.
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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[Chris Kenny] “I tried that this afternoon, but while those are SQLite data files, they’re pretty clearly generated by CoreData, which produces structure that’s fairly incomprehensible to humans. If you’ve had more luck figuring them out, I’d certainly be interested in anything you might have discovered, through.”
Yeah, still working on deciphering the hex blobs. That hex blob stuff isn’t unique to CoreData though- that is standard SQLite:
The quote(X) function returns a string which is the value of its argument suitable for inclusion into another SQL statement. Strings are surrounded by single-quotes with escapes on interior quotes as needed. BLOBs are encoded as hexadecimal literals.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t some CoreData uniqueness to these that would prevent us decoding them though. Not yet an area of expertise for me.
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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Nice find, methinks you are onto something. Now try running sqlite3 against a project file or event file…
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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The PCI-express busses in the current Mac Pro have a heck of a lot more bandwidth than the current crop of Thunderbolt busses. Oh, and you can actually get cards to fill them. How many Thunderbolt products are shipping?
Someday Thunderbolt will obsolete PCI slots altogether, but that day is a ways off and your 12 core Mac Pro will be formidable equipment for plenty of time to make it worth your investment.
Best,
Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
Keeper Technology