[Mitch Ives]

[Craig Seeman] “As it grows, Apple intends the single app to serve the needs of both consumers and professionals.”

Read that statement like a lawyer. “As it grows”… so they’ll gut it like FCPX, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, and then sometime before I start collecting Social Security, they’ll add the missing features back in. Really?

How many times does this have to happen before we start understanding how to speak Apple?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

So MacNN is a rumor site? Since when?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Brent Cook] “I don’t see this mentioned anywhere else and I’m sure if it were included in Apple’s statement it would be mentioned everywhere. I’d be surprised if Apple helped users switch to an Adobe product, especially if their intent is to have this Photos app eventually be used by professionals”

Its in everything I’m reading, including MacNN. MacNN is a pretty reliable source and not a rumor site…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Andy Neil] “Oh, I didn’t realize you’ve seen it already. I thought Apple made all their beta testers sign NDAs?”

I read the info… you obviously didn’t… you can remove the stupid smile now…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Rick Lang] “Adobe must be thinking, “Thanks, Apple!”
“

Yeah, and we’ll all be saying “thanks Apple” in a sarcastic tone for forcing us into the damn subscription for $10/month. Yeah, thanks Apple…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Lance Bachelder] “Oh wait… that was Adobe CC 2014 not FCPX, false alarm :)”

LOL… you’ll be in trouble now Lance…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Andy Neil] “Apple is releasing a new photo app. A replacement for Aperture, it seems. It’s not like they’re getting out of the photo editing business.”

Seriously? It’s not a replacement for Aperture… it’ll be an “iToy” version. Why else would Apple work with Adobe to transition you over to Lightroom if you need the capabilities of Aperture? It’ll be like Pages and the rest… a shadow of it’s former self…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

Kind of makes sense to me. News environments need speed and FCP X has that. Given the “use it and throw it away” approach that news tends to have I wonder if they are using any of the meta data organizational stuff?

As for missing features, in my experience, news stations aren’t really pushing the envelope when it comes to complexity, so they probably don’t feel anything is missing.

The fact that they’re still shooting HDV was curious though… probably still flogging those JVC’s…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Charlie Austin] “FWIW, there are some random keyframing bugs that have been popping up in forums, here and elsewhere. Your issue may be related? Hopefully it’ll get addressed in the next update whenever it appears…”

I struggle with key framing issues all the time. Nothing life threatening, just oddities. Sometimes the order in which they are applied seems to effect this…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

Am I the only one that thinks it’s a bit premature to be making your final decision on a beta?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill