[Lemur Hayop]

I was at NAB. I couldn’t tell who was a professional editor and who was a professional gear chaser. I think most were the latter. Not a lot of young folks, except the hot babes hired by the vendors. SinCity knows how to do it!

…..that’s my take.

[Lemur Hayop]

Business for Apple meant releasing FCPX in its infancy so newbies can grow with it. Newbies who don’t know/care about NAB or what prose use. It’s $299 plus a Mac that makes Apple phat with this NLE. The silent majority has “spoken” and reportedly FCPX sells pretty well on the App Store. Apple know$ wha$$up!

[Lemur Hayop]

So what’s the deal with Lightworks? In anticipation of buying a new MBP that MacRumors says will be out soon, I’ve been comparing PC laptops on Tiger Direct and can cut my expenditures in half. I need a new laptop, that’s why I’m considering dumping all things Apple if PC is half the price.

[Lemur Hayop]

Insider reporting states April for MBP release, but of course we’ve heard rumors like this since last April!
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/29/apple-ramping-up-production-for-13-and-15-next-gen-macbook-pros/

The thing about Ivy Bridge, isn’t that an integrated graphics array? How does that affect a dedicated graphics card such as AMD or Nvidia? Does it speed up communication between CPU and GPU? Rumors say in terms of CPU, Ivy is only a marginal improvement from Sandy.

[Lemur Hayop]

When FCP was king (around 2006), I longed for FCP/Logic integration, akin to Rewire. During the first decade of this century, I was all about Logic Pro, although I kept the current version of Pro Tools during the same time.

Now I’m all about PT and been into it for a few years. Avid’s been including more plug-ins and that was a big plus, and it looks as if RTAS might see the same fate as TDM. Although I experimented with hardware i/o during the realtime bounce, my hardware wasn’t as good as software plug-ins, so that’s why I wholeheartedly welcome an offline bounce.

Given Apple’s recent track record and focus, I predict Logic X will be initially dumbdowned, a la GarageBand, a la FCPX. Conversely, being that FCPX is slowly picking up speed, perhaps the initial shock will send people to Pro Tools. Not an issue for a lot of us, since most folks are on PT already and PT plays Apple Loops, etc., whereas Logic might have EXS, but who cares, it hasn’t been maintained much. In other words, Logic’s previous MIDI advantage seems to have been matched by Pro Tools, and those with Rewire can use Reason or Ableton.

I also noticed Digital Performer is dual-platform now, and that’s a surprise. Will DP attract Premiere and Avid folks on the PC?

[Lemur Hayop]

The poster on the x2pro forum got the same results with Logic Pro 9 as I did with Logic Pro 8: shows the track names but doesn’t import the audio files. Soundtrack Pro 2 is more specific about its error: “Soundtrack Pro cannot import the AAF embedded media file.”

Of course AAF opens very well in Pro Tools 8 on my machine, and I presume it’s fine with PT9 and 10. Pro Tools-only isn’t a bad thing. I find editing in PT is really top-notch. The caveat is the dreaded outdated realtime bounce, which is painful for long videos, making revisions horrendous. I’m sure a lot of PT editors bounce less-than-ideal takes because there’s no time or patience. Avid is dumping TDM (and presumably RTAS) to hopefully offer an offline bounce in PT11.

[Lemur Hayop]

somebody posted a question in the x2pro support forum asking about logic pro 9. that’s probably the best place to get an answer about logic.

https://x2pro.net/Feature-Requests/27-Will-you-support-Apple-Logic-Pro-9.html

however, the faq says nothing about any other app, only pro tools.

[Lemur Hayop]

i can’t get it to work with logic pro 8. hopefully somebody can try logic pro 9 and report back.

[Lemur Hayop]

That’s an interesting story. ‘Don’t know if your trick should be publicized, but the thing about the App Store is that it requires a Mac. So irrespective of how many rouge copies of FCPX (or other App Store software) float around, they all require an Apple computer. What goes around comes around. Microsoft can’t have a store like that.

[Lemur Hayop]

You’re right, my mistake. It’s AAF, not OMF. I’ve worked with AAF and OMF and didn’t experience any differences, so I get them mixed up sometimes. I presume there are differences.