[Greg Pilon]

Honestly, Go to Apples Home Page and that says it all. Most everyone here probably works on marketing projects on some level. When your new ground breaking product comes out, you showcase it. Instead the same phone picture is up from the last few weeks. To me, this shows where their priority ranks. It’s kind of red flag for me in a way, hopefully I am wrong and they continue to push the envelope with the Final Cut Studio Suite. I am just scared that the floor drops out kind of like Shake. There some rumors that this would have a compositing feature added or something, but I don’t see that or the new “phenomena” which has been rumored for a while. This is just an observation, which could totally be off base, but I would sure like to know from someone who works in the pro apps area what the truth is.

[Greg Pilon]

When I went to NAB this year, it seemed like everyone was introducing 4k Red support for Red. We have it Color, but not in FCP. I thought it was impressive to see a laptop running adobe bringing in R3D footage at 4k, and having a proxy button sitting there to rez down to be able to play the footage live. Apple was working with Red before Adobe, and since NAB, Adobe has a superior Red workflow and still does after this new revision. I feel the same way about the pro apps. The new phone takes precedence over FCP, even when its been out for a month. I think the only reason I will stay is because I know FCP so well, and comfortable with it, but I will see what happens in September with snow leopard. It’s just that the argument that Apple makes so much money on ipods and phones, is tough to argue that they may slip into consumer products for making cool home videos and youtube support. It’s not far fetched to say that can happen, and I don’t fault Apple either way. It’s their prerogative, and not impossible but I have to prepare myself for that. I love the update for Color in that it works the way we all wished it would, but I would say new version didn’t really run thru barriers either. I believe Apple can still push the edges of creativity and technology like they have in the past, to me the question still remains will they?