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My concern is that there’s been no change in subscription pricing.
It’s still $828 a year or $69/mo for Ultimate. I’d hate to lock into a year at that price if Apple is going to integrate key features into FCP or, at least, have a much lower tiered pricing. I have to imagine this is going to stall new subscriptions until Apple indicates where they’re going with this.
Any of us can speculate, but it would be just that without any statements from Apple.
That Apple is silent is itself a concern because you’d think they’d have gone into this purchase with an implementation plan.
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If you look at financial news sites, Apple bought the company. How they will be marketed is unknown.
CNBC for example:
cnbc.com
Apple acquires video editing company MotionVFX to boost subscribers
Apple is buying MotionVFX in part to help the iPhone maker attract more subscribers to its creator tools.
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That’s a lot of stuff you’ve been through.
There’s also Epidemic Sound, MusicBed, Audio Jungle, Envato, Bensound, Storyblocks and Audiio. SonicFire SmartSound is interesting as well. These and the one you mentioned are very large libraries. If they don’t have what you’re looking for, you probably have something very specific in mind. Or contrarily, you’re not detailed enough in your search.
If you describe what you want in detail you could try using an AI music tool. There’s Suno and Sonauto.ai
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If you can afford a used computer, you can get a used MacMini with an Apple Silicon M-series chip for $400 or so. I’ve seen them as low as $200, although with minimal RAM (8GB, but you’d want 16GB) and a small (250GB) internal SSD. I’d avoid Intel chip Macs at this point. The entire Creator Studio with Final Cut Pro is only $13 a month.
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Note that neither Photos nor Photomator is mentioned. Perhaps they’re being combined and under construction (not ready on January 28th).
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Given the AI features will only be available in the subscription versions, it makes the purchased apps a dead end in that regard. Features you get in Resolve for a one time purchase will require a subscription for Apple. Even the “Free” apps will have exclusive features/templates only available by subscription. Yes, truly a sad day. 😥ðŸ˜
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I have to assemble a one hour loop for an output of 4k MP4 for a public display of art and the monitor is a QLED 4k LG. I know the answer is go 4k Pro Res HQ all the way,
I think we need to unravel this a bit so you can better understand both the replies and possibilities.
MP4 is generally a container, not a codec. It can contain several codecs, including H.264 and H.265(HEVC) variants, but there are others.
One bit of information is how the files are being played back, as that may impact the codec choices and quality.
Another bit of information is the source files and their codec(s).
I’m not sure what you mean by “go 4k Pro Res HQ.” Is this your request for the source file codec? Is this the codec you want to edit in?
As others have pointed out, editing involves recompressing and, before export, FCP defaults to ProRes 422 (not HQ), but you can certainly change that.
If you’re asking them to deliver video files to you for editing, you may need to consider how they’re capturing and generating those files. Do you want them to take on the responsibility of upscaling lower resolution files to 4k ProRes HQ if they are creating the files in another format?
Depending on how they’re playing back the files, newer playback systems should have no problem with HEVC 420 8-bit. Older systems might be better off with H.264 420 8Bit but that may require a higher bit rate to match the quality of HEVC. It’s possible to exceed the maximum bit rate of the playback device so it is important to know what they playback device can handle.
As you are aware of, the internet speed and file size can impact the time it takes to send files back and forth and that’s certainly a factor. If that’s a serious concern then HEVC is best file size to quality codec to work with. You’d need to know what their up/down internet speeds are and how much time they have to best judge that.
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I wonder if an additional encoding service fee should be charged for a legacy file no longer supported by Microsoft adding a notice that the fee will be reduced/removed if/when they move to MP4.
It’s not like they would be in a great situation to find a competitor to do this. There’s an additional time and possible encoder cost to meet this format.
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It seems few of the free/inexpensive encoders supported WMV9. My guess is there’s license issues around that.
Telestream Flip4Mac encoded to WMV9 but also involved a license and has long since been discontinued (a few years ago). The commercial encoders such as Telestream Episode and Sorenson Squeeze supported it but they are also long gone.
One would have to be running ancient hardware to be limited to WMV9 as MP4 playback on Windows started to supersede WMV9 during Windows 7 era.
If you have an older Windows computer this might install
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