Marcus Moore
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You’re taking this a lot more seriously than I am, believe me!
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Well believability has just gone out the window right there…
Who that’s getting one of these things isn’t going to have it hooked up the same day!?
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Could we find out sooner rather than later? A couple of tweets from Michel Horton over the last day regarding the Amsterdam Supermeet on the 15th suggests that FCPX will be on the agenda, even though it’s not currently listed in any presentations…
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If Apple is optimizing FCPX for the MacPro, hopefully this will include better optimization for multiple CPU cores across the board.
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[David Mathis] “8. Real three-point editing “
Maybe I’m missing something but…
Two source, one program. One source (in or out) and two program.
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As I noted above, I wonder if the reason for this long gestation period means “foundational” vs “feature” changes (at least in part). Apple did 3 feature releases over the first 13 months [10.0.1, 10.0.3, and 10.0.6].
I’m not a programer, but I’d imagine with that kind of turnaround time, you’re somewhat limited in how “deep” you can dig into the code. So the features we’ve seen are ones that could be hung on the current framework: multicam, broadcast monitoring, XML improvements, Event Viewer, RED support, etc..
More substantive changes would require more time to implement across the entire application.
I think there will be new “features”, but some good under the hood stuff too. Performance, UI, probably some structural changes to accommodate Mavericks improved multi display support.
’tis exciting.
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According to those who had sit-downs with Apple at NAB, collaborative workflows is definitely on their radar. But whether they’ll be ready with a solution for 10.1 is anybody’s guess.
As great as these features would be, my personal hope is that Apple “closes the loop” on the underlying concepts. Clean up the timeline. Provide a good mixing solution. And reintegrate a good roundtrip solution with Motion and Logic.
And please, bring back iChat theatre! God I miss that…
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Even deeper, it would be great to see database info from Projects shared with Events, so you can see which footage has already been used IN the Event (rather than just duplicated frames ala Legacy).
It’s unclear to me whether that type of relationship is possible with the separated Event/Project structure. Right now metadata is all downstream from Events—–>Projects. Any Role data added in a Project doesn’t track back to the media in the Event. If Events and Projects were combined into a single database, this could solve those problems. Though with multi-user situations the concept of separated Events/Projects ( or Edits) does make good logical sense. If edits were part of Events, the constant database changes while multiple editors work on the same Event could be problematic.
There’s positives and negatives to both concepts.
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Yeah- though it would certainly be a amazing achievement technically, having an individual edit be able to be worked on by multiple editor at once would be at the low-end of the priority scale for me.
For Events, I’d like to see them shared across local networks or remotely via iCloud. With each editor/producer/director able to add metadata which is clearly assigned to them and can be turned on/off via checkboxes. So if I want to see the directors favourites I can, and if I think my Producer has terrible taste I can turn his off.
For Projects (if they continue to exist as a separate database), editors should have access to all projects, but be locked out of ones already opened by another user on the network.
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It will have been a year since FCPX’s last feature update [10.0.6] in October 2012. That’s by far the longest interval since the FCPX launch. This is about the same timeframe for big updates from the major NLEs.
So I’m inclined to think that (at least in part) this update will be more foundational in nature, and not just bolting on of new features. This could mean any number of improvements from UI tweaks, to changes to the Event/Project management structure. Timeline organizational improvements… Logic X does point to some intriguing possibilities.