Marcus Moore
Forum Replies Created
-
The only reason to do this is as a goodwill gesture, but I have to wonder who it benefits?
People who haven’t bought X yet would still have to pay the first-time install price of $299.
People who have already bought it and are actively using it are (like me) probably happy to pay $299 again after 2+ years. I suppose it would be a good loyalty perk, but if you’re making money off the software $299 isn’t going to scare anyone off from upgrading.
I suppose if there’s a large enough group of people who originally purchased X, found it didn’t meet their needs, but decided not to seek a refund- and it’s been sitting on their machine idle for a year or two. I suppose a free update might encourage those people to give it another look…
But I think Apple would be just as far ahead in that case if they just continued with the 30 day free trial for assessment purposes.
I do think it’s a possibility, but a remote one.
-
I was flabbergasted. No blockiness in low-contrast shadow detail, or high fast movement.
-
There’s no capacity for upgrade pricing in the appStore.
Developers have wanted it for a while- but Apple either isn’t ready or just isn’t interested.
See LogicPro9 to LogicProX. No upgrade path. It was just another straight $199.
That’s why I say it’s an either or scenario. It’s either going to be a free upgrade for existing users (which I doubt), or $299 for everyone.
-
Encoding AND decoding. At the NAB floor demo of 4K material, the decoder had a quad core processor.
So we’ll definitely need new hardware for something like the AppleTV before h.265 can come into play.
That said, the 4K material was running at between 3.5-7mbps. And on the 72″ UHD screen they were running it on, it looked absolutely marvellous.
-
[David Mathis] “Would like to know who much the new version of “X” is going to be.”
Only a couple weeks ’til we know. But it’s either going to be $0 or $299.
-
This is the second time in as many days this has been floated as new info.
Those pages on Apple’s online store went up the same day as the October event.
But thanks for getting my hopes up, Bill!
-
I can’t imagine anyone sane suggesting either h.264 or h.265 as working codecs- but for delivery they are exciting. Certainly the tests I saw at NAB last year were impressive.
-
[Steve Connor] “and now I find myself hoping that the new version of FCPX will be MORE like the new iMovie!”
Which is a rewrapped version of an unreleased version of FCPX! Are we confused yet?
If even half of what Alex4D has found in his code-spelunking is accurate- there’s a lot to look forward to in a couple weeks.
-
While the timeline works the same way, multiple connected elements, storylines, compound clips, and separated A/V trimming functionality were new to X.
And I think I think it’s fair to say there was a lot of development on the Event side as far as metadata is concerned. iMove allowed for basic favourite/reject tagging; but keywords, roles, text-searchable notes- and the way FCPX can use them for organization in Smart Collections, or batch renaming, the timeline index, or audio exporting were all improvements on the basic framework.
-
Unfortunately (as with anything else with Apple) it’s nigh-impossible to get a clear picture.
I’ve been told some things that roughly back up Charlie’s version of events. From someone fewer degrees of Kevin Bacon away from the source than any of us. But of course I can’t say who or how, so you’ll have to take that for what it is, or as the mad ramblings of a lunatic desperately seeking internet fame!