Marcus Moore
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That’s right- it was us back and forth on price in the thread before… I was equally surprised, I can tell you. The rep said he’d gotten that reaction from all the other business customers who’d asked to be notified.
For comparison- I also asked about an 8-core with 500GB SSD (everything else maxed out). Price for that was $7,500 (or $7,700 CDN)
RAM upgrade from 16 to 64GB was $1,200. Which is right in line with the $600 for 32GB in the current iMac.
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I’m not in the US, but I’d guess a top of the line MacPro would be $9,500 based on the Canadian price I was given.
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I think if they can configure them, it’s got to be pretty imminent.
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So even if Apple pushes out a HDMI2.0 firmware update, and you have an HDMI2.0 cable, the HDMI1.4 port on the TV will still be an impediment.
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Thanks for posting.
If you’re desperate to have a 4K pixel native display, it’s great to know there’s something out there for under $1000. But that would be it- for colour accuracy you’d definitely need something else.
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I guess we’d have to take it for granted that this would be maxxed out internally.
I wonder if it would have made sense for one of the benchmarking sites to buy this thing at that price- get a pretty great exclusive, and then resell it for near what they paid for it to the next bidder down the line.
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That would be hilarious. The guy pays a million bucks and he gets his delivery notice…
“Shipping December”.
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Alex4D’s snooping around the code shows that there will be options in 10.1 for migrating the old database into the new. Here’s the relevant text-
“In Final Cut Pro 10.1 and later, projects and events are contained in a library.
” Click Update All to create a new library for the projects and events on each connected hard disk.”
” Click Update Later to skip the update process for now.”
” Click Locate to manually create a library for a specific hard disk, folder, or SAN location.”
“Review the newly created libraries and confirm your projects and events are intact before emptying the trash.”
“To skip copying your Projects and Events into the Library, click Ignore. (You may import them later.)”
“Copied Projects and Events can still be opened in earlier versions of %@. To copy your Projects and Events, click OK.” [parts of text that include @ characters can be replaced by the app depending on the context. In this case the text would be ‘iMovie’ or ‘Final Cut Pro’]
“You are editing clips between libraries.”
“You are editing compound clips or multicam clips between libraries”
“The Library must contain at least one Event” -
I’m not sure about your analogy that Event=Bins. Bins in Legacy were for more granular organization, unless you only ever just had ONE Bin per job- that certainly wasn’t my experience. I think Keyword and Smart collections will still be the primary organizational element for information.
I still think that there are certain scenarios where a separated Project and Event library structure would be beneficial- where groups of editors are all pooling use of the same footage, and the editors don’t need to deal with seeing each other’s sequences. But it seems like the metadata downside was too great, and so they’ve been combined into a central structure which will allow for things like used media being visible from Projects back to Events.
Just like with the metadata organization in FCPX itself, people will find the way that works best for them to use this big organizational soup.
Libraries could be for a job, with Events being individual days shooting (or multiple Events that span many days)
Or a Library could be for a client, with Events representing individual jobs.
There’s all sorts of ways to put together the pieces Apple have put on the table.
But I wouldn’t characterize it as a complete regression.
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Alex has done, like 4 articles now, pulling the code apart. Some really great snooping on his part.
If only half of it ends up being in the 10.1 release it will be a huge update.