Mitch Ives
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It means that the Kona cards can be stuck in an external Thunderbolt/PCIe enclosure and work as the Kona will recognize the signals coming via Thunderbolt.
You could then hook your Kona 3 to a Thunderbolt iMac for example. Theoretically.”
Let’s hope it works better than every other external card cage has thus far…
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[Jeremy Garchow] “If really there’s no capture card support out of FCPX and they expect us to use a Thunderbolt display, that’s seriously all I will need to know. I’m out if that’s the case, but I highly doubt that this is the case.
AJA is, I’m sure, under strict NDA.
Apple themselves listed AJA as beta test partners in the FAQ.”
I agree with you on the Thunderbolt only proposition. I’m sure AJA is under an NDA, and they have no problem telling you when they cannot discuss things. The problem here is their surprise and the fact that they didn’t seem to know about Apple promising early 2012. That sounds more like being kept out of the loop, but then this is all speculation.
What FAQ are you referring to?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What makes things interesting is if you read the release notes for the Kona v9.1 drivers, all Kona products are “Thunderbolt aware”.”
Yes, I saw that… I just wish I knew what that meant?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Mitch Ives] ” I am disappointed to find out that Apple has had no communication with AJA about any of this. ”
What do you mean?”
AJA was at the local FCPUG meeting, and he was completely unaware of the update coming in 2012. I figured that might be classic rep behavior, so we exchanged cards and then he followed up requesting the link on Apple’s site so he could talk to AJA management.
I followed up when he got back to HQ. He spoke to those in charge and I was told that no one in AJA has had any conversations with Apple. The fact that they are not even aware that Apple is (supposedly) going to provide professional monitoring is somewhat alarming. What was the point of Richard Townhill going on parade and doing damage control? Is Apple really serious? That makes me think it will be some kind of lame Thunderbolt support, using more Cinema displays.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Alan Lacey] “No, I’d certainly not like to have to bin my IoHD.”
Agreed, nor my Kona3. If FCPX supported the Kona 3, Apple could stop a lot of people leaving and going to Premiere and Avid…
Mitch Ives
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[Jeremy Garchow] “So, yes broadcast LCD can evaluate interlacing issues, but you need a broadcast hookup, but that is coming in the next major FCPX update. “
Jeremy’s correct, professional broadcast LCD’s (like Panasonic and Sony) can display interlace issues quite well.
As for the next FCPX update supporting that, let’s hope so. And let’s hope it’s through “real” broadcast option boards, not just some sort of Thunderbolt dongle. I am disappointed to find out that Apple has had no communication with AJA about any of this. Early 2012 isn’t that far away…
Mitch Ives
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[Craig Seeman] “I think by this time next year FCPX will have a very complete “professional” feature set which, like any other NLE some will like and some won’t. There was no transition though.”
Given that it took 5 months to get the titler fixed, I can’t be as confident as you. I say two years.
Mitch Ives
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[Herb Sevush] “[Bill Davis] “Irrespective of anything else, you craft a lovely metaphor”
Thanks Bill, was rather fond of it myself.”
I agree as well. Very clever.
That’s the second one this week that I enjoyed. The other one was someone who posited that “watching the Democrats and Republicans argue over the budget was like watching two drunks argue over a bar tab on the Titanic”. Rather clever as well…
Mitch Ives
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[Dominic Deacon] “I’m not sure this forum has an actual poll function but I’m interested in what everyone’s decision has been- FCPX Or Not?”
Jury’s still out. Using FCP7 for most work, using FCPX to learn it.
IMO so much depends on how Quickly Apple fills the gaps. The addition of Multicam and professional output to monitors if does actually happen in early 2012, would go a long way in making it more usable. After that, let’s hope they’re serious and really start improving it on a constant and ongoing basis…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Bill Davis] “In fairness, Adobe, in particular, does NOT have that kind of history. They’ve always delivered and supported fine software.
I just still think they’re missing the larger trend of where content creation is increasingly going – and that’s more in line with where Apple is betting.
But I could certainly be wrong.”
Yes, we are talking about a company with a long history, not a startup like Red.
You could also be right about Apple’s direction… but sadly it’ll take some years to actually know…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com