Lou Borella
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THEY ARE BETA DRIVERS FOR GOODNESS SAKE.
BETA.
Don’t you understand what that means?
NOT FINAL YET!!!
WILL BE UPDATED!!!Do you think AJA is just going to close up shop or maybe stop supporting Apple products?
Do you really think they can survive as a company supporting just Vegas and Premier?Did you forget to mention that you can LOG AND CAPTURE AND MASTER TO TAPE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES WITH THESE DRIVERS or did you conveniently omit it from your post to make your point?
No its not built into FCPX yet. But its less than 6 hours old at this point!!!
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You have no idea what “long-term” is.
It can’t be defined.
If you really think that this piece of software will not evolve by Apple and the help of 3rd party developers then you haven’t been paying attention. -
You mean like an update?
Or maybe a 3rd party plugin?
Or a driver set for a capture card?Sigh … you’re right. That probably will not happen.
I think I’ll switch to Premiere. The production bundle is only $1700 and Adobe hasn’t been gouging their customers for years now with feeble updates at full pricing. Or I can go with the wonderful subscription pricing.
Or maybe I’ll switch to AVID. Lord knows every time they release a new version of any number of their editing products everything goes smoothly. Maybe my user settings will work next time without having to rebuild them.
Or how about Vegas. They are kind of a viable option at this point right?5 hours and counting ….
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So the beef is about the lack of an interface.
I get it …
even though the interface was useless for ingest/output unless paired with 3rd party software.And I did read the AJA pdf on the BETA drivers. BETA DRIVERS.
Because I have a KONA LHe card and a BVW-75 and a AJ-SD93 I was very curious about tape based support. But you know what. I HAVEN’T USED ANY OF MY DECKS IN ABOUT 2 YEARS!!!
Almost every camera crew sends me footage on harddrives or SD cards at this point.
I can’t remember the last time I bought tapestock. I can’t even remember the last time I added bars to the beginning of a sequence!!!The software was released THIS MORNING.
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And with appropriate hardware FCPX will probably do what you want it to do by version 1.2!!!
Maybe even earlier since AJA already has beta drivers available.So stop whining there is no support for tape based output.
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The point is that you NEEDED to buy 3rd party hardware for the Edit to Tape function to be useful outside of DV or DV50 footage!!!
For any type of mastering or ingest other than DV/Firewire you NEEDED 3rd party hardware.People are talking like it was something that was taken away.
Again. AJA and Blackmagic filled in these functionality holes in previous versions. I’m sure they will do the same here.
Besides the fact that now you CAN do 4k or Red very easily.
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And you do exactly what with that logged footage from that Beta deck?
Nothing!!!
Unless you had a capture card or external box.
No ingest.
No output.
No insert edit.NOTHING.
except with limited firewire support.
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FCPX doesn’t what?
Doesn’t interface with 3rd party hardware?
And you know this because how?The software has been available for 4 hours!!!!
AJA already has beta drivers available.
Im sure Blackmagic has drivers coming.Take it easy already. The FCP world of developers are not going to stop innovating and adapting because of a software upgrade. If you seriously thing that Apple hasn’t let these companies in on the code so they can keep supporting the software then you really haven’t been paying attention.
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Other than firewire, there has never been support for tape based input/output in ANY version of Final Cut.
You have always needed to buy 3rd party hardware to get any form of tape based deckcontrol or analog/sdi input and output other than firewire (which is not frame accurate)
Lou
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Rob,
Hate to say it but I take back the praise!!! (temporarily)
I just tried switching the external audio editor from Soundtrack to Logic but there was no change in the export options.Thoughts?
Lou …