Joe Murray
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“Legal” issues meaning it’s less expensive to acquiesce and offer more licenses to facilities that have made huge investments in FCP workflow than to pay lawyers to defend against suits from these companies.
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Sounds like you need a new computer. Wait a sec – Apple probably has some faster ones right around the corner!
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[Chris Kenny] “That you’d prefer to work with those projects as you left them in FCP 7”
And yet, they’re not going to continue to support FCP 7, or provide access to the updates to FCP 7 in case you need to reinstall. So you’re somehow supposed to use projects from years gone by with a piece of software that is not supported. We have about 16 terabytes of archives on LTO tapes, and sometimes go back 3-4 years to update projects. Do you think, if Apple is already abandoning FCP 7 as they have, that they will continue to keep FCP 7 alive when they update the OS, so that I can access those projects? If you do, then your faith and blind support of Apple knows no bounds.
A migration path for old projects, even if it’s one sequence at a time, is not something that couldn’t be figured out if Apple wanted to do so. If Automatic Duck can export an XML from FCP X, then FCP X can import an XML. If it can import an XML, it should be able to import one from a previous project. The lack of any stated plan for migration of old projects IS a big deal, and at least on this one point you should really stop defending Apple.
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I like that when I start skimming clips or transcoding media on my Macbook Pro (most recent 17″ model), within about 15 seconds the fans kick into high gear to cool the processors and/or graphics card. FCP 7 never did that to the same extent.
So it’s really using the horsepower and I look forward to running some workstation tests.
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>>>Trimming is a big improvement over FCS7. Hit the T key, hover over various areas up to or over a cut, hit the option key and all the tools are right there.
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It makes logical sense that if someone (Automatic Duck) can make FCP X export XMLs, then eventually it will also be able to import XMLs. With 1.2 million people hitting Larry Jordan’s site and taking it down yesterday, there’s money to be made in figuring out the XML IO issue, and if Apple doesn’t do it someone else will. I think Automatic Duck will get the bleeding edge early adopters, but I’m pretty sure there will be a less expensive way to do this before long.
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Not me. If FCS is EOL, I’ll make do with the 3 licenses I have until I figure out what we’ll be using next, whether it’s X or something else. Not giving apple any more money for now.
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But you’ll still run your Adobe product on Apple hardware, right? So either way, Apple wins.
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You have all the foresight and patience of my three year old. Actually I take that back, she can think as far ahead as next week. I can’t even take your post seriously.
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My guess is Boris will have something out a lot cheaper than AD before long. Economics being what they are, if there’s a need and only one super-expensive product to meet that need, others will jump in to compete for that business.
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