Chris Conlee
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I don’t think a single app is going to have a significant impact on Apple one way or the other. Especially since most of the vaunted 2 million+ seats of FCP that were in the field had never been paid for.
Chris
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I’ve used DVFilm Maker to convert footage to 24p. Check it out at: https://dvfilm.com/maker/index.htm
Chris
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Gary,
Have you posted directly in the FCP X forum? There is at least one official Adobe rep who is doing so, and the FCP folks are quite appreciative of his presence. I’m looking forward to your Los Angeles appearance. Unfortunately, I’m working on the Sony lot in Culver City, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it or not. Later is better 😉
Chris Conlee
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As I said, it’s a chicken and egg scenario. If enough “pros” buy it to stimulate 3rd party development, it’ll grow. If short term acceptance is slower than anticipated, I don’t think it’s unlikely to see a drastic price drop and retargeting of Apple’s marketing to the tweeners.
I’d be curious to know how the sales volume jives with Apple’s expectations, thus far. My hunch is it’s not selling like they expected. Granted, it’s listed as the ‘top grosser’ but compressor is well down the list, and iMovie is still on the list. Says to me, the tweeners are the one’s buying, primarily.
Time will tell.
Chris
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Actually, I’ve been thinking for a few days that Apple may have completely missed the boat on this release and pricing structure. They seem to honestly have thought they were introducing a professional application which would appeal to the pro market and therefore pull the YouTube set into the fold. As it turns out, the pros aren’t interested, and with the negative press it’s quite possible that the YouTube set isn’t that interested in spending $300-400 dollars on something that looks suspiciously like their freebie iMovie.
This release could go the way of the DoDo bird, if sales aren’t what Apple expected. I’ve seen mention of 5 million units moving, and I’m not sure that’s going to happen. For a pro, $400 bucks isn’t that bad. For a kid, it’s a lot of money. If the pros aren’t hyping the holy hell out of how cool the program is, and instead are bitching about how much it lacks, then what’s to inspire that kid in the basement to cough up his hard earned grass-cutting money to buy this thing?
And if the pros aren’t buying, then what 3rd party developer is going to put serious effort into it? It’s a chicken and the egg situation here. To answer Chris Kenny, no, I don’t think that is so outlandish a thought. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see the price drop to $99 soon as a more reasonable upgrade to iMovie, so the amateurs will be more interested, and the pros can finally just leave it behind.
Chris
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Hmmm, back to blind faith in Apple, after such a rude week of user abuse? No wonder they can continue to get away with this stuff.
Chris
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Well, for what it’s worth, HuffPo is hardly ‘mainstream’ for about half the country. Just saying.
Chris
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It doesn’t currently get much more “Avid” than Gary and Kirk, the CEO and COO of the company. They were specifically asking what Avid could do to compete with FCP. That was my number one recommendation; a TRUE shared environment for at least 2 users for less than $5K. It’s something Apple didn’t and still doesn’t have.
Chris
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I agree with you, however, that there is a HUGE market for 2 systems sharing a project. I told Gary Greenfield and Kirk Arnold at an Avid event that we needed a simple two-system (aka Editor and Assistant) shared workflow. Surely their engineers could figure out how to make one of the machines a server and the other a client over an ethernet cable or something?
They seemed to like the idea, and they even mentioned it to a few of their engineers who were on hand, but that’s been a couple years ago now and I haven’t heard a word about it since.
I would gladly pay 2K to 5K for such a system, as it’s incredibly common for me to need a single assistant on a small feature, etc.
Chris Conlee
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Well I tested it on a Mac Pro, 8-core, Nahalem machine. I haven’t actually tried it on my MacBook Pro yet.
Chris