Marcus Moore
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This is sorta interesting- as I think most people were guessing that all new Macs left to be released this year would wait on Mavericks.
We’re probably 2-3 weeks away from Mavericks release. If they continue to fill out the rest of the product line (rMBP, MacMini, MacPro?) does that lend any credence to the possibility that Apple will make Mavericks a free update?
Spec bumps updates for Macs are more often than not silently updated like this- interesting to note no Retina option. And no Thunderbolt 2. So IF Apple releases a Retina Cinema Displays, those two technologies will be exclusive to the MacPro for at least a year.
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There are articles on how to roll your own adjustment layer (it’s basically a blank title or graphics template generated in Motion) or if you don’t want to bother, Color Grading Central and (I believe) Alex4D both have free ones you can download and install. CGC has two: an basic adjustment layer AND a pre-built Broadcast safe one- which is great, since ideally what you want is a BS filter which blanket covers everything, including effects and titles, which wouldn’t be covered by dropping the effect on individual clips.
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And that midget is lazy!
Baddum bum!
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I think he has. Not universally. I think it would be nigh-impossible to stop the leaks on iPhone and iPad hardware. There’s just too many hands on it, and there’s seemingly too much of a reward to those who can sneak out a component here or there.
But for software and Macs, they’ve been able to keep a pretty tight lid on things. Last year’s thinning of the iMac was a big surprise. And no one but no one had any idea what the MacPro looked like before that video ran at WWDC.
Most recently Logic Pro X dropped out of the blue with no warning at all.
Especially with software, where the people who would conceivably see 10.1 would be the development team, and their immediate supervisors– there HAVE to be some beta testers, but the two people I know of that could potentially have early access are in the dark as well.
Next month is going to be VERY interesting.
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My standpoint exactly. They’ve been working on whatever this update is since AT LEAST last October. I also find it interesting that there seems to be a pretty effective blackout on info on whatever it is. If guys like Larry aren’t getting any solid info–
Intensely curious is my state of mind.
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[Andrew Kimery] “And in Avid (and maybe PPro, I don’t know) you can apply a CC effect that spans multiple clips (maybe even the whole sequence) by placing it on an empty, top video track (as opposed to FCP 7 where you had to apply the filter to each clip).”
You can do this in FCPX too. Though it’s not an advertised feature, you can make “adjustment layers” which effect everything below it with whatever filters you put on it.
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The most prominent place where I find this would be useful is for graphics renders.
Plenty of times the timing of a shot will either change, or I’ll just have forgotten to set an export range in AE or Motion, and end up with the standard 10 second length for the render.
As I refine the graphic, I usually remember to export a shorter range somewhere along the line. If I’ve already been using the temp, longer render file, I can’t just do a replacement with the shorter version. Which if you’ve used the graphic a bunch of times for the lower3rd can be painful.
I think a force-relinking of the media obviously comes with several caveats- but it is necessary from time to time.
And a global or at least whole-drive search for missing media is definitely needed- and probably on the way.
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It’s true. There’s no force-relinking of media that’s shorter, or using a different name, etc.
It should be a pretty each change to institute, though I wonder if it would reek havoc with the database when doing this with non-“import to Event folder” files.
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Adobe has showed it’s hand for the year, with 2 big updates and a change in pricing structure.
While apple has released 3 largely maintenance updates, they haven’t released any feature updates since last October. Until Apple releases 10.1 it’s going to be a naturally lopsided comparison.
I think there is definitely a segment of people who were very likely going to move from FCP to PP but just will not buy into the subscription model. That may give FCPX an opportunity if 10.1 is a large and meaningful update. But FCPX will always have the stigma of being “different” (unless Apple reverses course on FCPX’s core concepts which I don’t think it will- and I don’t want them to).
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I also found it a bit odd that Larry’s presentation was so heavily weighed on 3rd party tools. The tools he showed were great, and definitely DO mean that FCPX it a better fit for certain workflows now than it was before.
To your other points Erik, I think Larry could have gone a long way by including some cutting in a complex sequence, showing how the connected clip and magnetic timeline structure can be a big time saver- cause regardless of what “heavy features” this next big update brings, I definitely don’t want to those two things to go away. But extra depth in info and some better GUI customization will be absolutely welcome.