Dan Stewart
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Magical
*may not be magical
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I Know What you Did Last Summer
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Natch. For those of us not making purchasing decisions at the moment we can wait and see if Apple decide to reanimate FCPS3. Anyone investing serious cash in the near soontime should be aware of the foggy future of the FCPS3/Macpro ecosystem. There’s been a toxic spill and no-one yet knows how bad, and Apple are STILL in shut-people-up-damage-control-mode.
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Didn’t Apple get started with the kudos of being the preferred choice of creative pros? Am I being silly? Even before the iEra Proapps was a small part of their revenue but it seemed important to them, like Warner Bros giving Kubrick budgets even though he wasn’t making them any real profits..
In that light the striking thing in all this is Apple’s total and rather devious about face. Is it a watershed moment for the company? Are they on their way to a 40 year Microsoft style pigf&*k? I thought we had at least until Jobs turned up his toes..
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There was suspicion because of Apple’s shady behaviour. It kicked into high gear after the supermeet because some people here aren’t dumb.
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Corporate game playing is all very well for the next automagical consumer trinket, but this is a serious issue for many here.
It may be that all of FCP7’s abilities and interfaces are retained and the shiny imovie-esque layer is just optional fluff.
BUT
1)Not saying so is worrying to those who will HAVE to figure this stuff out at very short notice (ie, production co: “we got the new FCP, BTW can we see a cut by mid-afternoon?”) and
2)The choice of amateur imovie whizbangs to present, as opposed to serious functionality (even the momentary mention of critical functions being retained) is VERY WORRYING to anyone who may find themselves in the situation above in the near future.
Apple have always wavered between serious pro gear and flogging magic beans to fat fingered consumers. If they mean this to be serious gear they should have said so, not having done so is worrying because
A)They didn’t and
B) They didn’t know they should have.Should we take them seriously and trust them? The discussion will go on until they realise they need to act like pros to deal with pros or they dump a broken housewife-grade toy on us in June.
What fun!
Dan
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Well Mojo is too unreliable in my experience so I its off to FCP land for me…
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Thanks guys, it does in fact just work. Doh!