Chris Kenny
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iMacs have 64-bit processors. All current Macs do.
Snow Leopard boots in 32-bit kernel mode by default on on most systems, but even in 32-bit mode can run 64-bit apps. On recent machines, including iMacs, you can also choose to boot in 64-bit kernel mode.
Folks report that Lion developer previews have switched to booting in 64-bit kernel mode by default on recent systems.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I don’t think that quite stands up – the iMac comparision – we know this is a complete rewrite, and they omitted any mention of a raft of key features in their.. tease. “
It is a complete rewrite, but it was presented to a bunch of professional video editors, in a venue intended for video pros, during a presentation that Apple opened by bragging about adoption by broadcast and post facilities.
The idea that Apple then went on to introduce a product lacking basic pro functionality is simply not reasonable, so I don’t see why Apple should bother itself with speculation along those lines.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “Apple’s approach to this, and the stone walling after the event is increasingly annoying, and altogether inappropriate for a professional customer base.”
Look, Apple showed off some new features. At some point in the next couple of months, there’s going to be a more comprehensive formal product announcement. “Stonewalling” makes it sound like there’s something unusual going on here and that Apple is trying to avoid difficult questions or something, but as far as I can see, they’re following standard practice with respect to releasing information about new products.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “no – I take your point on there being fear as a factor in the reaction people have been having – but he’s not playing the ‘what’s the worst thing game’, he’s playing the ‘I’m very annoyed with Apple game’ – that’s a valid game.”
But he’s very annoyed at Apple, as far as I can tell, primarily because he’s talked himself into believing some fairly unreasonable things (e.g. it’s plausible that FCP X won’t be able to support video I/O cards) and considers it a failing on Apple’s part that they haven’t released specific information clarifying these points.
As far as I can see, Apple has no particular responsibility to respond to this sort of unreasonable skepticism. It’s like saying, in the wake of a new iMac announcement “Hey, maybe these new iMacs don’t let you install third-party software anymore”, and being upset with Apple for not clarifying that yes, like previous iMacs, and consistent with what any reasonable product sold into that product category would have to support, they do.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[Andy Mees] “Certainly the FCP X preview announced the integration of ColorSync into the app to enable color space managed workflow … but I didn’t see anything that suggested Color Sync now managed display of interlacing? Something else entirely surely.”
Display of interlaced material on progressive displays is a long-solved problem. See any non-CRT TV in the world. Or consider the fact that you could pop a DVD with interlaced video content into your Mac in 1999, and play it back without interlace artifacts with the DVD player app that shipped with Mac OS 8.5.
It’s possible FCP X doesn’t address this, but with a newly written engine, designed to exploit the power of modern graphics processors, it’s more likely that it does. Perhaps not sufficiently to use for detecting issues with interlacing during QA, but sufficiently to cleanly display interlaced content while editing.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[walter biscardi] “We don’t even know if FCP X will support hardware cards like the Kona and BMD cards. I have multiple meetings with folks at the show and the overall answer I got was “we don’t know.” “
Hey, Apple didn’t show Final Cut Pro exporting files. Maybe it can’t export files! How will we deliver work?
Seriously, this level of paranoia about lack of support for basic features is entirely unjustified. Obviously it might take a little while for third party hardware to support the new release, but the idea that FCP X fundamentally doesn’t support video output, which is what you seem to be suggesting, is completely crazy. You seem to have talked yourself into believing this is literally iMovie with a slightly rearranged interface and support for ProRes, for $299. Whatever it is, it’s not that; the existence of such a product would make no sense.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[walter biscardi] “No other way to explain taking a 10 year software brand that has made tremendous inroads in all areas of Post Production and then potentially dropping many of the features used day in and day out by said post production companies.”
While it’s possible there are features absent from FCP X, there was nothing presented during the sneak peek that provides any evidence for this. Only discussing major new features is par for the course for product upgrade announcements.
You’ve decided to play some sort of “What’s the worst thing that could be true given on what we know” game, and that, not any actual action on Apple’s part, is the primary source of your anxiety about this release.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple no longer needs to master discs, print boxes, warehouse and ship those boxes with discs. They have an enormous cost savings. They can certainly drop the price based on that alone. In addition, major updates no longer have to be locked into longer cycles since at no point will they have to burn new discs.”
And don’t forget the fact that the lower price will probably allow them to recapture quite a number of sales presently lost to piracy, help them win the ecosystem battle against their competitors, and probably spur prosumer sales that never would have otherwise occurred.
(I hesitate to mention that last point in this forum, because some seem to almost believe there’s something wrong with software that has crossover appeal to the consumer market, but I think that’s just silly.)
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[Craig Seeman] “If you’re talking about the Avid cross-grade offer, I think that that was Avid reacting to Apple actually. That did not precede the sneak peek.”
And even if it had, it still would have been Avid reacting to Apple — to the long-term pattern of Apple’s cheaper products encroaching on traditional Avid markets. It’s kind of nuts to label Apple as the defensive party in the fight for the future of video editing.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[Vincent Strader] “That scares me. As a past Discreet *Edit editor any time I hear of companies dropping support for programs that have become loved just irritates me to no end. Talk to any editor that worked with *Edit. That program was magic. And now so may Apple programs I’ve come to love are also “magic.”
“Video Guys” are a sponsor for COW aren’t they? I read on their site that FCPX might be a step down from FCP7? “
Frankly, nobody (who’s allowed to talk about it) actually knows anything. The current “sky is falling” response to FCP X is mostly just a product of the same mindset that has had some folks to speculate over the last couple of years that Apple would exit the pro video market altogether, which turned out not to be the case.
[Vincent Strader]
And 299 for the whole program? Is that cheap? I work with FCP7 now but I don’t handle the books in the office, all this stuff is purchased for me. Was FCP7 by itself around that price?FCP has in recent years only been available as part of the Final Cut Studio bundle, which is $999. $299 doesn’t seem especially out of line for just Final Cut Pro, and you can’t really read anything about the hypothetical cancelation of other apps into the fact that Apple has unbundled Final Cut Pro, because Apple also unbundled iLife and iWork when putting their apps in the App Store — the App Store just doesn’t sell bundles.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.
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[Dustin Parsons] “That’s pretty cool, but if you only bought one copy would it allow you to use FCPX on multiple systems at the same time or would you get an error message about someone else already having it open?”
The license terms for Mac App Store apps are essentially that for each copy you buy you can choose to either:
1) Install it on all the computers used by one individual.
2) Install it on one computer used by many individuals.Presumably FCP X won’t perform that sort of local network check, to allow for the former. But it’s always possible Apple won’t stick to standard App Store rules with FCP X — it is their store, after all, so they can do whatever they like.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read What is FCP X’s relationship to iMovie? on our blog.