[Paul Dickin]

Hi
https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/06/what-are-the-answers-to-the-unanswered-questions-about-final-cut-pro-x/
Apple folk made it abundantly clear that the ecosystem was very important to them, and that there will be a new, and much improved, replacement for the current XML workflow.

[Paul Dickin]

Here:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1394
Motion templates as well:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1395

[Paul Dickin]

[Aaron Robinson] “Thoughts please?”
Hi
Will our thoughts make Apple completely re-engineer the Mac Pro motherboard to include the TB chip (which has to have a direct connection to the CPU/chipset – and the graphics card) a matter of months before a new CPU socket will be introduced by Intel?
Will our thoughts change Intel’s plans for the introduction date of their next multi-processor Xeon which plugs into that socket?

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Yes, there has been some discussion in this forum, in between other more speculative topics 😉
The new replacement is called AV Foundation.

Discussion here has mostly been based on the investigative diggings of Philip Hodgetts:

https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/02/what-is-apple-doing-with-quicktime/
https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/04/what-ive-been-saying-about-final-cut-pro-av-foundation-and-quicktime/

Here’s the Apple documantation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/AVFoundationPG/Articles/00_Introduction.html

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
The Apple filters are Audio Units OS plug-ins , available to any Mac program, like Soundtrack Pro or Logic Studio. Other programs often have a much better easier graphical user interface to apply the filters than FCP allows.

[Paul Dickin]

[Dennis Radeke] “…all of the other companies are doing much the same…”
Hi
Adobe yes.
I don’t know anything about Avid.
It remains to be seen whether Adobe’s cross-platform Windows/OS X implementation running on a Mac is as elegant as Apple’s. 😉

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
What’s with the ‘no timeline in FCP X’ notion?

What Apple seem to be doing (if you read their developer documentation for AV Frameworks) is making the timeline (seen in the program’s GUI) an AV Mutable Composition. At OS (= AV Frameworks) level.

That means FCP X is ‘only’ the GUI. Any other GUI – call it Motion or Soundtrack or Color, whatever – can have direct and maybe simultaneous access to the AV Frameworks assets that comprise your work-in-progress ‘edit.

No round-tripping (or tripping 😉 ). Just enhanced tools for enhanced productivity, once the full suite is all developed. 🙂

Add that to extensively developed and pervasive metadata databasing, again at OS system leve,l for accessibility to any GUI running…
Big deal.

[Paul Dickin]

[David Cherniack] “…incremental improvements. They didn’t change how humans interact…”
Hi
The medieval monks sorted out books – binding, pages to be turned with their written word on, inset illustrations etc. Along came Gutenberg and Caxton and made no changes to the human>book paradigm.

Not a big deal?

[Paul Dickin]

[David Cherniack] “The automobile achieved architectural stabilization by its first two decades and improvements ever since have been incremental…”
Hi
It was more like 50 years before monocoque constructtion and traction-avant (FWD), which are crucial to the modern evolved motor car.

The monocoque analogy is apt. Hitherto Apple, Avid and Adobe have been ‘coach-builders’, building their bespoke bodywork (= the visible part of the car) on the chassis of the underlying OS.

Apple has chucked that out, and is apparently about to integrate the application directly into the OS’s core underpinnings.

What was a big deal for the automobile, leading to greatly enhanced structural stability and road-holding (= performance) will be a ‘big deal’ in NLE performance terms.

[Paul Dickin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “What’s the story there?”
Hi
The story – as Randy showed it – is that some of the concepts in FCP X’s GUI, and some of the basic functionality, has been tried and tested (in iMovie as it happens) – but it goes far far beyond that…

The story as Phil tells it is that now all this preliminary work is coming to fruition in a new application built on a new ‘engine’ which will be radically different from what we have known so far, and will have huge potential for the future.