[Marcus Moore]

You want your original finder files names changed to date and time? I don’t think you’ll find too many others enthusiastic for that!

[Marcus Moore]

I think it’s too easy to assume that any of the bigger feature wants (mixing, UI enhancements, collaborative workflow) are waiting for the next OS update.

Well, Collaboration maybe… Since if Apple has a collaborative workflow in the works it will certainly be tied to iCloud- so recent enhancements there could be the key to better multi-editor situations.

Before the 10.1.2 update was released this week, many here and on other forums were convinced that it wouldn’t make sense for Apple to update now before Yosemite was released, potentially in October/November. But I can’t imagine that everything we’re looking for needs unreleased code to happen.

Of course, with 10.1.2 now out, I don’t think we’ll see another feature update before Yosemite. Maybe a quickie 10.1.3 bug fix during the Summer, but if there’s another feature update planned for this year, it will be on the other side of Yosemite and probably VERY LATE in 2014.

[Marcus Moore]

I would love to know this. I’m only 1/4 way into a 40ep series on X, and I require both XMLs into Resolve (which I hear works fine), and X2Pro for ProTools, which I’ve heard will need to be updated for the new XML 1.4.

[Marcus Moore]

Yes. It seems like the last two update have been very focused on fixing foundational issues, primarily around media management, which I’m sure we can all get behind.

Whether that is something that had to be addressed first, before moving on to other things; or whether a more full-featured audio solution just isn’t ready yet, or relies on some Yosemite features to implement they way they want to— we’ll never know. But I do hope to see some movement on that front in the near future.

I am satisfied though that the ever expanding trend of longer durations between feature updates has been reversed. We’re 190 days since 10.1 launched, so that’s way less of an interval than between 10.0.3 and 10.0.6 (266 days), or between 10.0.6 and 10.1 (428 days). On that track I think another, post Yosemite, update this year is pretty likely.

[Marcus Moore]

That’s squarely on me- I’m probably one of the founders/high-priests of the “Rule of Tuesdays” meme.

To be fair, I never thought that updates on other days “couldn’t” happen, merely that they hadn’t. The stats don’t lie!

10.0.0 – 2011.06.21 Tu
10.0.1 – 2011.09.20 91 DAYS Tu
10.0.2 – 2011.11.16 57 DAYS W
10.0.3 – 2012.01.31 76 DAYS Tu
10.0.4 – 2012.04.10 70 DAYS Tu
10.0.5 – 2012.06.11 62 DAYS M
10.0.6 – 2012.10.23 134 DAYS Tu
10.0.7 – 2012.12.06 44 DAYS Th
10.0.8 – 2013.03.28 112 DAYS Th
10.0.9 – 2013.07.30 124 DAYS Tu
10.1.0 – 2013.12.19 148 DAYS Th
10.1.1 – 2014.01.16 28 DAYS Th
10.1.2 – 2014.06.27 162 DAYS Fr

While maintenance updates had come across the week, feature updates were squarely on Tuesdays. 10.1 was the sole discrepancy coming on a Thursday, but that was a simultaneous release with the MacPro- so I chalked it up as an exception.

With today’s Friday release of 10.1.2 perhaps the Tuesday rule IS gone the way of the Dodo.

Hey, I’m thrilled it the update dropped today. Thrilled to be wrong!

[Marcus Moore]

From an article by Steve Martin-

Media includes not only files you import, including video clips, audio files, and graphics; it also includes transcoded media: the optimized or proxy files you can create either during or after import.

Cache includes render files, optical flow and stabilization analysis files, images of thumbnails, and clip waveforms – basically all the files generated by FCP X except for transcoded media.

Proxy and Render are separate. There ya go!

[Marcus Moore]

Hey Mitch-

I’m just curious about you keep referencing Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Yes they were missing some higher level features at launch. But now, only about 6 months later- haven’t those issues around Applescript support, interface, etc. been addressed?

Is there anything specific you’re still missing?

[Marcus Moore]

It was already apparent Apple had learned from the FCPX launch based on Logic Pro X.

[Marcus Moore]

Let’s not forget that iMovie IS FCPX, just with a reduced UI wrapper.

[Marcus Moore]

This is exactly the type of rumour mongering that I hoped would be avoided by Apple specific mentioning of continued development of Logic and FCPX in the Aperture press release. And then releasing an update today.

As I mentioned in another thread- it could well be that recoding Aperture for the new iCloud Drive based nature of Apple Photo management going forward was just too much work, and it was smarter to start from scratch.

Was Aperture even Cocoa yet?