[Mark Palmos]

Hi Michael,
My bit of googling tells me that you are OK if in system profiler there is mention of 64 bit kernel, which in my machine there is NOT…

The processor may be a 64 bit processor, but it seems the computer cannot run in 64 but unless the kernel is set to 64 bit. The 2008 models do not run 64 bit by default and have to be set (every boot up?) to use 64 bit. Mid 2010 models can boot up 64bit by default.

But I don’t know if that means I will not be able to run FCPX. Perhaps just not using all the ram?

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi guys,
On the topic, I believe the pre-Nehalem mac pros like mine, with 2 Quad core Intel Xeons running at 3ghz will not operate at 64 bit… a “bit” of a surprise to me as the sales schpiel had 64 bit all over it back in 2007 when I bought it.

Is that correct? To make full use of FCPX 64 bit abilities, one should have a newer mac pro?

tx
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Dan Hayes] “From what I’ve seen, I think it’s all done with magnets.”

Hey there Dan!
I hope all is good with you?!

That MAY be ok if you were dragging your clips to the timeline and could place them were you want, but there absolutely must be a way to

mark IO on the timeline

mark I on the source clip

target a specific track on the timeline

press a keyboard command to have that source clip go to that spot on the timeline.

absolutely basic necessities for most editors… I didnt see the show, so how do magnets do this basic operation without a mouse being used?

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Eric Jurgenson] ” I don’t knoew if I could work without the inherent organization of dedicated tracks.”

I totally agree Eric, and I think it is truly impossible to NOT have a way to dedicate tracks… I cannot imagine there would be no way.

At present, FCP is confused and confusing WRT the paradigm of track selection. You click on the leftmost V1 V2 to assign where to INSERT/OVERLAY clips when editing in, but click on those other little icons to select tracks which determines which tracks are active if you delete media, or if you press X to get IO of the current track.

IMO if you are editing, the track tabs should determine both where INSERT/OVERLAY clips are placed AND which track determines what is marked by X key or which tracks are deleted. It makes sense to have the same tabs for both because if you are ADDING and REMOVING stuff from the timeline (aka editing 😉 you would purposefully be doing that to specific tracks so you can determine where you want clips to go WITHOUT having to drag and drop clips.

FCPX would HAVE to have a way of assigning where clips are insert/overlayed because mousing about is obviously not going to be a requirement, so if you are to press F9 or F10, where does the stuff go?

I’m sure there will be track assigning ability, there HAS to be.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “the ones we don’t know we don’t know”

it’s all empty and meaningless marcus, empty and meaningless, and meaningless THAT it’s empty and meaningless
😉

[Mark Palmos]

[Erik Lindahl] “I think Larry sums it up in the end: The devil is ALWAYS in the details. Even with all these new features there are 100 unknowns. It also boils down to the fact that the above features work as advertised and that’s not always the case.”

Hi Erik,

Also a big question is how many existing features will have been removed due to “not enough time to implement the entire feature set due to a rewrite of the code”. This is what happened to Premiere Pro when it was re-written twice (if my memory serves me, I think it was 6.5>CS1 as well as from CS2>CS3)

Anyhoo, we will all have 20-20 vision in about two months…

Cheers,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “Larry continues This does not mean these other applications are dead – simply that Apple is not talking about them… yet.””

Hi Marcus,

That sounds promising… I do wonder why no mention was made of it last night in public though, it would have caused positive enthusiasm instead of the present instability and doubt.

tx
Mark

[Mark Palmos]

[Erik Lindahl] “I found these bullets on a site I presume is a recap from the show (might be correct, might be an interpretation of what was said):”

Hello all and good morning…

Thanks for the list Erik, it’s good to see in one list like that, and yes, there are several of those that make me grin with pleasure…

If all those new features were there AND we were not losing ANY of the functionality we have with Motion, Compressor, DVDSP, Color, Soundtrack, I would be reasonably pleased, though I desperately want improvements to Motion too.

Most tellingly about last night IMO is that Apple (usually masters of selling up their products) made ZERO mention of the Studio, not so much as a wink and smug “…and that is not all…”

IF there was ANY more, do you not think Apple of all people would have taken this huge opportunity to create EVEN MORE buzz by dropping just ONE hint?

Dang!

I would love to see how beziers in the timeline would do all and more than what Motion currently does. I have deep doubts about that one.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

My god, if Motion and the other pro apps have not been included, it will really be time to have a look at Premiere/AE again.

Motion desperately needed several serious bugfixes and many feature improvements like using subtimelines or motion clips in drop zones, ofsetting drop zone footage, fixing keyframe editor etc…

Some sexy things in X, but mostly eye candy… though we will see how the keyframing and all other real world workflows work in good time…

Can it display duplicate PARTS of clips on a timeline? I really need that one.

4:28 am, time to go back to bed…

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Alexander Higgins] “This is it all folks.
No word on other applications like motion, dvd studio pro & color.
Hmmm………
That is because they are DEEED. So glad we invested in AVID last year. So Glad..”

WOW!!??

No changes to Motion???

Holy crap!!!

If so, Premiere/After Effects here I come