[Mitch Ives]

Best get it out before Resolve 11 is released, or it’ll probably get lost in all the R11 chatter…

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]

[David Mathis] “Perhaps they might surprise us with FCP 11 right after Resolve 11 is released. The new version would include tracks, color wheel and my favorite, “Send To Motion” option as well. :-)”

LOL… so glad you said that and not me…

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]

I have an Apple Trackpad attached, that I use just for scrolling… and yes add it to the feature request…

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]

[Bill Davis] “It’s also notable that in their entire press kit, there’s not a single picture of the thing being handheld.

THIS is how you’re supposed to mount it I think… “

To their credit, they came right out and told me that it was a tripod camera… that you can’t hand hold it.

What? Don’t these guys know they are supposed to tell everyone what they want to hear so they can maximize sales? His candor actually through me off… I had to process it twice to realize what he had said…

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]

I had a lengthy demo of it, and then kicked the tires a bit myself. Spent almost an hour with it. I actually commented on how similar the interface was to to “X”… especially the Inspector. That seemed to make the demo guy a bit uncomfortable. He didn’t disagree, he was just quiet. Maybe it’s because he used to be with Apple?

I think BMD knows that they’ve designed something that will appeal to X users (and to 7 users who feel like orphans), but they don’t want to kick the Giant in the knee… at least not yet. I’m not surprised they are playing down expectations. There is no upside in irritating Apple. At the same time, they know that there are a lot of people who want more from “X”.

I think they will continue to add some serious features to it with each release and let the naysayers continue to “whistle past the graveyard”… right up until they kick out a release that makes it obvious that they are offering an alternative to “X”.

The best comment I heard at the SuperMeet was “I’m not looking to replace FCP X, but I’m feeling less vulnerable now, in case Apple loses interest in continued development of FCP X”.

Interesting thought… I’d have to agree.

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] “lol. Actually, there’s probably quite a bit we agree on. Except the bit about tracks. :-)”

I know, I was being humorous. I actually enjoy hearing your thoughts, whether I buy in or not…

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]

[Baz Leffler] “Obviously they have never experienced Bob when he really IS being HARSH!”

LOL… yes Bob can be a bit terse at times… but I always enjoy his no B.S. approach. I don’t need smoke being blown, and Bob has always been a straight shooter…

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] “OpenFX is multi-platform, FXPlug is Mac only – Resolve is multi-platform and its performance is based on the power of your hardware and not the OS.

At NAB BMD had GenArts Sapphire running inside Resolve. OpenFX has a much higher-end base than FXPlug – Assimilate, Autodesk, Digieffects, FilmLight, Sony, The Foundry, Genarts and RE:Vision FX all use OpenFX…”

Thanks for the info. That makes perfect sense.

I saw the Sapphire Arts plugins which was very encouraging. I didn’t realize all those other high-end hosts were all OpenFX… that’s even more encouraging… especially since I have a bunch of DigiEffects and RE:Vision Effects that I’m presently not using…

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]

[David Mathis] “In the event that the Hit Film plug-in is supported in Resolve, then that will be a true game changer !”

Paul mentioned that R11 supports the Open FX plugging architecture. Hopefully, developers will jump on the band wagon and support that format. Plugins are one of the things that make FCP X so useful.

I do wonder why R11 doesn’t support FXplug? Maybe they couldn’t use it?

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] “Though being able to put markers on the timeline would be useful though…”

Wow, finally something we both agree on. Have you seen R11? (Sorry, Charlie… couldn’t resist).

The good news is that all of this talk about R11 can only get Apples attention and make FCP X even better… something I suspect we could all approve of…

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