Erik Lindahl
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I don’t get why people connect OpenCL to the CPU.
OpenCL and CUDA are similar to OpenGL and DirectX – two different languages to achieve similar results on the GPU. As I understand it OpenCL is still well behind CUDA in efficiency however. It will be interesting to see what performance a decent ATI card gives.
Any plans on supporting smaller than 1920×1080 screen-sizes? 15″ MacBook’s are quite common machines out there.. 😉
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I agree, given we more and more have a all digital file based workflow now – even if the source is film. But we still have the odd digibeta delivery or capture so even for our small post house we couldnt just drop tape-support over night – especially for archival purposes.
As has been pointed else-where a solid media management back-end is required even if apple drop tape-deck control in-app. I would be very surprised if the log and transfer tool hasn’t remained (although brought up to FCPX standards of course). Then again building a modern professional application, having a healthy plugin architecture even for i/o seems like a “smart” design to me. We’ll see.
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Is this only per element in a comp or for the entire comp? Say I work in 32bpp, add two layers. Layer 1 is the 32bpp video, layer 2 is a graphics file I apply the “fill” filter to (8bpp effect). Will layer 1 or filter affecting layer 1 and 2 get downsampled to 8-bit precision or will only media in layer 2 be affected?
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I don’t see an issue with this at all. Perhaps “log and capture” features will be more stable when tied to a vendor-specific hardware even and MOST people have moved away from tapes for a large portion of the their day-to-day work anyways.
What I do wonder is how Apple has improved the over-all media-management in terms of online / offline workflows, reconnecting, transfering, importing or archiving projects. The current FCP works okey there but it also suffers in quite a few areas.
Some what off-topic but I’d love to see FCPX have proxy- or version support. I’ve found an interesting way of possibly using “auditions” in our current workflow (i.e. you can show the offline-, graded- and posted-clip with-in a few clicks – given that will be PER CLIP which isn’t always what you want).
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The move from the somewhat brainless “metallic blue” to a dark grey is very welcomed. But the sharp contrast in colors as stated might be an area or irritation. Time will tell. Hope we retain some user-control here. I hope the GUI in general is very customizable as it’s always been in FCP.
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The only time we use EDL today is when sending offline-cuts to get graded (source tends to be film or RED). However, if Resolve retains solid XML-support this is a no -issue. In Sweden broadcast-masters have been filebased since 2007 I think and we havent ever had EDL-requirements here.
Solid OMF-support is however a must as all audio-editing is done in Protools.
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Visually being able to have multiple sequences open at the same time is quite vital in my book. A lot of people have noted this.
Also, multiple viewers can be vital to many workflows. I sure hope Apple hasn’t forgotten this aspect of FCP.
I do like the “depth” of the new timeline. That can help alot in a lot of situations. This won’t solve the basic need of seeing multiple timelines however I don’t think.
Great list though. I could add quite a few points there 🙂
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I don’t see a huge difference between how Apple runs things to ANY soft- or hardware developer. Some things are kept secret, sometimes you have “sneak previews” or “technology demos” – everyone does it so I don’t see why people are all fired up about FCPX.
I’d love to try AVID MC 5.5 in our shop but their lack of hardware support makes that impossible. I’d love to start using Resolove in our shop, but the requirements of BM Videocards and nVidia GPU’s makes it a much larger investment. Low and beyhold – the Resolve team has sorted half of my “issues” there with their new release. Can I still “trust” they will develop the product as I want? Nope, I never can and it’s the same with all vendors. For now, when FCPX and possibly FCSX hits the AppStore all current FCP editors have options if the next and greatest from Apple comes as a dissapointment. Premier offers a very similar tool-set and most people using Photoshop / After Effects already owns their copy. Can we trust Adobe will keep up the race against the competition? Not at all, maybe AVID will revive in 2012 as the Final Cut off this milenium.
Use the current tools that goes your work done and don’t worry to much about the future. At the moment I don’t see that many “game chaining features” in AVID / PREMIER to seriously concider moving from FCP7. I also think Apple would be CRAZY to kill off it’s current high-end userbase, given.. They do know how to make $ in the dinky-toy market for real and maybe their are happy to keep FCP as a “midranged” editor. Time will tell.
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Two short notes here:
1. The usage of tracks in a NLE or compositor is quite vital for my self and how I work. I think some features we know from FCPX removes their need somewhat but yeah, I really use tracks a lot for organization and control today (in more apps than FCP).
2. With all the new stuff introduced i don’t see an issue apple keeping tracks either. Be it an optional or advanced feature Id be surprised to NOT have it there.
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It’s all speculation but MAYBE some of the FCPX goodies will be placed system wide instead? Decoding of codecs on the GPU built into QuickTime for example.
Time will tell!
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Erik Lindahl
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