Christopher Wright
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It all started in the FCP forum….
And thanks for the edit* kudos!
Can you believe FCP actually finally has non-rippling speed changes in the TL and snapping to separate Audio track and Video track markers?? We are finally getting there!!Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
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There’s that word again.
Seems like an obsession…Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
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something you have absolutely no control over…
I have been a beta tester for many software programs and several NLEs (remember FAST’s NLE that was bought by Pinnacle?? and the code ported to a Sony NLE that never took off, the Trinity editor by Play?). There is a difference between whining and letting the software encoders and developers know what the majority of users want in their NLE upgrades. The point is you can and do have a say over whether your vendors are doing a good job or not, your wallet. I have complained about lack of feature sets from the beginning of my editing career from all kinds of manufacturers, from the CMX, to the Toaster, to Autodesk, to Adobe, and now to this release to Apple. The ones that listen survive. The ones that don’t keep up with their customers expectations go out of business. It really is that simple. It is not just me that feels “entitled” as you can see by all the posts on this forum that are disappointed with this “point release grade” upgrade of FCP. I say Apple better wake up and smell the roses, or they will lose the pro NLE market to savvy competitors. Or maybe they just sell or kill off their “pro” app division and keep making itoys for the masses. That is where all their profit comes from anyway…
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Zane Zane Zane…
I have been through the life cycles of several different editing platforms including Sony 1″ machines and CMX editors, the very first Avids, the venerable Toaster on the Amiga, Edit* on Windows NT, then finally to Apple with the Cinewave card. The closest thing to a perfect editor for editors was Discreet’s edit. I am still waiting for much of that same functionality in todays NLE products with much beefier processors and years of software writing experience. You never get anywhere by not letting a company know what the users want and suggesting changes. The problem with Apple and Final Cut is that they aren’t even keeping up with the competition. And the problem with a lot of your Apple “cheerleading” posts is that you come across as an arrogant, condescending clown. As was stated in one of the earlier posts, just because you don’t like Live Type and think it isn’t used by “professionals,” many real professionals use it in their work every day, and have done wonders using it creatively, without all the “cheesy presets and effects.” I, like Walter, have worked in the biz for over twenty years and am actually busier than I have ever been, and I have always “made a profit” even when I had to invest in 100K editing systems. You again entirely miss the point. If you don’t grow and keep up with the competition, you fade away. Apple dropped the ball on this one, plain and simple. I don’t care how much you stick your head in the sand, scream at the “non-believers” and remain an Apple apologist, the facts remain.
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Did you have to re-install those plug-ins into FCP7
or did they make the transition/install intact??
If no reinstall of third party plug-ins is needed,
that is indeed very good news!Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
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To be fair you get a lot more useful, essential programs with Adobe Production Premium than you do with the FCP suite. Every post house I know uses After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator in their day to day work. Also the Flash app is used daily by almost all professional web designers. If you had to buy solo licenses for these programs alone you would be well over $1,699.00. In my mind the “freebies” in Adobe studio are PPro and Encore, as well as the useful field recording tool, On Location. We are talking “apples” and oranges here.
As far as the statement (go ahead and go to Adobe, see if Apple cares…) that is a dangerous attitude to take for any company. Many people may just do that, and never look back…
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Once again, Russell and Zane are missing the point, and it is obvious that they don’t use Blu-Ray often, if at all, in their workflow. Walter has found his own expensive solution that works in his workflow and more power to him, but the rest of us are waiting for Apple to just keep up with the competition, may I dare say we expect Apple to blow away the competition. The competition (Sony and Adobe) already have Blu_ray authoring and using Russel’s logic, the programs are “free” as they come with the studio versions of those suites just like DVDSTPRo is packaged “free” with FCP Studio. Most of us just expect more from the company that is “so much easier to use, intuitive, cuuting edge, cooler and hipper than Windows….”
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I would love to know if any of your 3rd party plug-ins actually survived the install, and if so are they working correctly. Also which video card and Raid system are you using? Any output/bandwidth problems?
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Yes as Tom has stated so succinctly, my clients, peers and film festivals are the ones who want their content authored on Blu-Ray. That is why so many of us are disappointed in this FCP release with no real improvement in DVDSTPro and Blu-Ray authoring. Blu-Ray players are very affordable now, and my best clients actually all have one. They are amazed at the difference in a Blu_ray Master versus the old DVD proofs. As Arnie mentions, there is no real reason to want Blu-Ray tools if you are a consumer passively and mindlessly viewing Hollywood content, or watching compressed YouTube video on your cell phone, in fact that is all the big media corporations want consumers to do. The story is different if you are a content CREATOR and want people and clients to see see your work in the best quality possible, in the cheapest way possible.
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Yes that (non-rippling speed change in TL)is my favorite new feature, long overdue. It will have to render out at a much higher quality than the current speed change algorithms in FCP 6 though to be truly useful anyway. Discreet edit had crystal clear slo-mo and speed up over 10 years ago that didn’t ripple the TL and would work in Real Time beautifully at any speed, even fractionals. It is like Walter has mentioned about the old Cinewave being able to achieve chroma-keying and alpha keying in real time without rendering. Discreet edit could do two layers of alpha in real time. It seems as the processors get better, the performance gets worse…. kind of backasswards….
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