[Craig Seeman]

I thought it was interesting that iOS and iPadOS apps would be able to run on Mac.
I got the impression that Rosetta 2 would help with plugin compatible even as the apps themselves were native.
Still not clear if Apple is going to move to USB4 with the move to ARM. Connectivity might be a big pain point for Pros moving away from Thunderbolt.

[Craig Seeman]

It seems Acusonus and Crumplepop have been doing versions of some of the more common iZotope plugins for FXFactory for FCPX.

[Craig Seeman]

FCPX 10.5 will come out and all hell will break loose again.

[Craig Seeman]

Nothing you’re doing is inherently wrong. The Trash Can has Xeon processors so it doesn’t have hardware accelerated encoding so H.264 encoding is very slow compared to a comparable MBP or iMac. Even the 2017 iMac Pro, which is also Xeon, hooks into the GPU to do hardware accelerated encoding.

With the Canon Vixia MTS you’re likely encoding H.264 to H.264 which is going to be slow allow around (decode and encode) compare an i7 or i9 processor with integrated GPU.

MOV is a container, not a codec. If it’s H.264 MOV it’ll still be slow going comparing to ProRes MOV but that’s still another conversion compared to just re-wrapping (which is what you might be doing in EditReady.

[Craig Seeman]

Since no one nibbled I’ll add:

Given the discussion of FCPX for iOS and that such devices use ARM processors and Apple seems to be moving towards a macOS running on ARM processors one might speculate one of the reasons there’s been so much time transpired for 10.5 is that, given the above, it makes sense that FCPX is being written to take advantage of ARM on both iOS and macOS.

Of course, if they’re working on an ARM-compatible FCPX it makes good sense that there may be versions that can run on both iOS and macOS ARM.

[Craig Seeman]

[Craig Alan] “That goes back to JOBS. I think he did not want other companies to steal his ideas. “

I fully expect Apple to be secretive about new technology but in many cases, FCPX is adding features that already exist elsewhere. Knowing those are coming may keep people engaged.

Of course, given the span of time that’s elapsed since 10.4 came out, it’s possible we’re going to see another radical revisioning and Apple wants to avoid a repeat of 2011’s pre-screening.

[Craig Seeman]

Personally I think Apple’s policy of silence is it’s own worst marketing enemy.

[Craig Seeman]

With so many things with parts coming from China, it may be hard to know any that are 100% exclusive of anything from China.

[Craig Seeman]

https://nabshow.com/2020/attend/onsite-services/coronavirus-update-and-resources/

[Craig Seeman]

The erosion of exhibitors continues.
https://www.imagineproducts.com/news/blog/imagine-products-will-not-attend-nab-2020/