Mathieu Ghekiere
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Well, that’s why I actually think it could very well be that an FCPX update is waiting for their big story at WWDC about the ARM transition. Then they have a whole story ‘coming together’: ARM transition for Macs, a lot of shared code for iOS and MacOS, and with iPadOS becoming more full-featured, we are also announcing our own Pro Apps for iPadOS, including Logic, FCPX and Xcode.
It would all fit nice in one. We’ll know in June if that’s a way too optimistic speculation or not.
P.S.: Logic was also shown in leaked screenshots from Apple’s education website to have some features that at this point only Garageband or Garageband for iOS has. Knowing that a lot of the underlying code of Logic and Garageband is the same, as well as with iMovie and FCPX, maybe it also fits with the speculation above.Whatever the case, the last times we had to wait so long for an FCPX update, we got big substantial updates with both a lot of new features, and features that had more to do with how the program worked underneath. (FCPX 10.1 was huge with the whole new Event/Projects structure, 10.3 was huge as well with the Roles Based timeline).
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[Oliver Peters] “If there were FCPX for the iPad Pro, who here would shift to that version exclusively?”
Who talked about exclusively?
If I’m on the lookout now for a new app, for instance, a writing app. If they don’t have a mobile app, it decreases the attractiveness for me to buy into the ‘platform’ of the app, if there is competition that has it.
I use FCPX exclusively for editing on my iMac. I’m happy of my iMac, and I’m not planning to get rid of it. To the contrary, if it fails tomorrow, I’ll buy another iMac. BUT that doesn’t mean that if I could do editing on an iPad with the platform I’m already used to, I would be an attractive bonus AND I can imagine it being an interesting selling feature for people on the lookout to a new NLE, if they are comparing.
It is indeed also a question that IF Apple would release FCPX for iPad, if there would also be a rethinking of proxys, iCloud, collaboration, etc. … If this would all hang together or if it would be just an FCPX lite for iPad. Who knows. It is fun to speculate.
I also am happy with FCPX like it is now, and the magnetic timeline, the way of organizing, I couldn’t go back to anything else, IMO. That doesn’t mean you don’t want some feature updates after almost 2 years. It’s a bit of a weird logic that because you are happy in general with a software package, you don’t want some feature updates. You can be happy with a software package and still think it’s not perfect or complete.
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I understand that notion. I also want to have feature updates after 2 years of very little in term of new features for FCPX, but I do have other conflicting thoughts about it as well.
Let’s, for a second, hypothesize on Apple spending all their efforts the past years of making their Pro Apps for the iPad, why we haven’t gotten a lot of feature updates:1. Won’t it make the whole FCPX platform a lot more attractive for editors? Luma Fusion doesn’t have a professional NLE on the desktop. Adobe doesn’t have full featured apps on a mobile platform. BlackMagic doesn’t. If Apple has this, it is a competitive advantage in a world where a lot of director’s, editors etc. *have* iPads and love them for their portability, 4G connectivity and flexibility (pencil, tablet-only, now with mouse support, optional keyboards, etc…)
2. If Apple is going for a switch to ARM for all their computers, (which a lot of sources have said would start hardware-wise in end 2020-mid 2021) isn’t this something they have to prepare for anyway? Like they have to write an ARM-version of FCPX anyway, so why not start it already 2 years ago, and make sure you can make a splash announcement at WWDC 2020 where all of this comes together? To tell a full story, which we all know Apple loves to do at their keynotes, especially for developers: “This is iPadOS 14. We want to transition all our computers to ARM. We already have MacOS ready for ARM processors, and we got a gain of XX procent in battery life on a Macbook Air, XX procent of computing render speed differences on our own chips in comparison with an Intel i5. And to top it off, with iPadOS 14 we are introducing all our Pro Apps, FCPX, Logic Pro X and Xcode for iPad OS to show you all it’s possible, our team did this.”
3. If Apple would release all it’s pro apps for the iPad, it’s also a goalpost for other developers, including ‘indies’ like Pixelmator and Affinity, but also big companies like Adobe: the iPad is a pro device. A big part of our future (see point 3 above about the ARM transition). “We (Apple) are taking the limits of the iPad one by one, and you should as well.” ?
– Will the whole rewrite, a small decade after the introduction of FCPX, make new features easier to implement? Taking advantage of CloudKit, having both your own chips and your own software, etc. …?
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P.S. To add to that, I just saw a tweet of Jon Prosser, who has been getting a lot of Apple Rumors correctly the past months (including dates of release), who said there is evidence of Xcode being in iOS 14, so it opens the door to Pro Apps coming to iOS.
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I have the feeling that FCPX 10.5 hangs together with WWDC 2020, and a possible transition there being announced of going to ARM processors (didn’t Apple announce the switch to Intel also before they did it to all the hardware), and Apple’s Pro software being released for iPad Pro’s.
I don’t know why I think this, it’s a combination of Apple now giving a 3 month trial of FCPX, them bringing out Mouse/Trackpad support and a Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, and Richard Taylor said that Apple’s training certification programs for the current edition of FCPX ends in June, which is when they do WWDC.
The website of fcp dot co also has a guy writing articles for them now who used to be in the FCPX team, and I think (I don’t know if I remember this correctly) he wrote almost a year or 1.5 years ago that although he really didn’t have inside knowledge on it, he thought going more mobile would be a next logical step.https://mathieughekiere.wordpress.com
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I saw that, it’s very impressive. But as long as there is no Prores Support on the iPad (which is on the OS level) it’s not that useful. But I did buy a license of Lumafusion, they seem to be doing great work and updating regularly.
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