Erik Lindahl
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Once they fix things then I believe that FCPx will be a very cool editing tool
Correct. The problem a lot of “nay sayers” at the moment feel is this will take years rather than months. Just look at how slow FCP development was from FCP 6 > FCP 7 and now FCP X. It’s also a bit worrisome if Apple hasn’t thought of basics like i/o from the start, but maybe they have.
Time will tell.
For digital broadband delivery “anything goes” in terms of monitoring. I’d personally still opt for working against a proper broadcast monitor as colors, gradients and tone will be spot-on. Most computer monitors are iffy in this regard.
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With the notion of “just outputting a full res file from FCPX and tweak it in FCP7” you sort of kill the idea of FCPX being viable for broadcast work. Yes it’s possible, so is iMovie or Keynote or any other QuickTime-based app.
The broadcast safe filter in FCP7 is very poor. I’d avoid it as much as possible. Might be it works in NTSC-land but not in PAL. Also, the FCP7 scopes can be unreliable at times.
Never the less, here you’re talking about using FCP7 for what should be done in FCPX but can’t in it’s current iteration.
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Since you can’t get a native video output from FCPX via a video card from a company like AJA, Black Magic or Matrox, using FCPX for “broadcast” is very sub-par if not crazy.
The lack of track-support for audio-work makes output to tape impossible if your broadcaster has special requirements here. Disregarding that, looking at an all-file-based workflow you still can’t monitor potential interlace issues or accurate colors through FCPX in its current state.
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Look at any current page of modern station delivery standards. They want a content clip only. No bars, no tone, no slate. Just the file please.
Not the case for me in Sweden or any country with-in Europe more or less.
Apple has dropped the ball so badly it’s not funny. You can argue what you are but then again you can’t even monitor FCPX through a broadcast-monitor so I’m not sure how anyone in their rightful mind would use it for professional output (unless it’s web or digital only).
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I thought Lion would require the system to have 10.6.8 installed, or is that old intel? If not, this system is fine / great.
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The ancient OS-X-native Internet Explorer 5.5 will no longer run, either
Oh no! 🙂
The only really issue I find with Lion is the download > install scheme. They should offer a download > disc image scheme I’d say. Other than that I understand they want to cut off all the old code. Most people that require things like Rosetta will most likely survive staying in MacOSX 10.6.
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It’s sort of like the whole debacle ofter FCPX and who it’s target audience is. Apple made it clear in April it’s for us pros. Apple made it clear in June they didn’t quite understand us pros (or chose to disregard our needs).
I wouldn’t put to much faith in Apples statements. If it works – great! But I wouldn’t put money on FCP7 working “flawlessly” for the next 24 months or so before MacOSX 10.8 comes out.
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Apple or most software companies haven’t ever been the “HAVE TO” do anything. It’s usually “should work” or “planned to function” you hear.
We had issues a few years back when I think CS1 came out where AE and FCP had a massive conflict. Adobe blamed Apple and Apple blamed Adobe. Yet both claimed “it should work…”. I wouldn’t put to much faith in a statement like that more than it’s Apples intentions to keep FCP7 workable under Lion.
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Add EDL-support, be it “old” it’s still widely used when dealing with projects originating from film. That said, XML-support is getting better and better on the telecine-side. Ironic Apple can’t keep up with their own standards.
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“Everything just changed in post” is sort of an ironic line Apple is using as this app will be a pain or impossible to actually use in a post workflow if all the limitations mentioned here are in the app.
Everything just changed yes – we can’t use the latest version of Final Cut Pro.. 😉
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Erik Lindahl
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