Jason Levy
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Thanks for that info everyone. If anyone has a working setup in use can they let me know what specific gear they are using. Much obliged.
jason
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[walter biscardi] “t’s a matter of professional tools that we use every single day. Just one example, assigning tracks for ProTools audio mixing. As the new FCP-X is a “trackless” editing system, how do you align all the audio tracks properly so the ProTools designer knows what is what in the mix?”
I have to say that worried me when I heard about it.
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Sounds good. I have my fingers crossed. I also saw this:
https://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/1365
(sorry to be wasting your bandwidth again…)
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I don’t have a crystal ball but I do think the issue is worth discussing… I appreciate your analysis. I’m not sure what we’ll do at my shop. But I’m spending some time thinking about it before the next production cycle begins. I feel terribly guilty about wasting David’s bandwidth but I do appreciate hearing people’s point of view.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Sure you do Jason… That’s just about all you post about.”
Ouch you have hurt my feelings David!
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article from appl insider.com
I don’t mean to be a prophet of gloom and doom. My facility is 100% FCP and it’s mostly a very good system. But it’s got some problems and the core application hasn’t had a serious upgrade in a while.
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Editing systems are very tricky bits of software with complex requirements and demanding customers.. It’s like you start a contract editing a feature and someone calls to see if you can make a copy of a DVD for 5 bucks. You don’t mind the five bucks but most of the time you don’t bother. Final Cut as a loss leader to sell more PCs? It’s minuscule compared to what they are already doing. I’m just saying that they don’t have any really big need to care about it which probably explains its current decrepit state.
Selling it? I think they should sell it to Adobe.. replace that clunky Premiere thing … Imagine a totally integrated FCP AE environment. C’mon Adobe…
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Not in theirs but maybe ours. The thing is badly in need of a real update, make that rewrite, rather than just another redesign of the packaging. The guts of it are old and creaky. Perhaps a company who’s main business was editing would take better care of it.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-ipad-sales-2011-1
Have a look at this chart. The very thin yellow line represents revenue from ALL apple software. FCP is in there somewhere… Is this a priority for Apple?
I suspect the best thing that could happen would be for them to sell off the FCP unit.
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The codebase of the FCP suite is very old and clunky. Most problems with crashing seem to be in my experience due to FCP running out of memory as it can only access a very limited amount regardless of how much you have installed. Try putting a few oversized graphic files on your timeline and wait five – ten minutes for the project to open as FCP caches memory to disk. It’s due for a serious rewrite and has been for a long time.
I recall Steve promising “something big” for the next version of FCP and I hope to eat my words but I am not feeling hopeful.
Clearly selling a few thousand copies of FCP is not a great deal when you can sell millions of iPhones. I do not believe that Apple is going to support this product in any significant way in the future (it doesn’t make sense; I would not either if I wuz them.. spin the product off??) and I am looking to transition to something else in the medium term.