Peter Blumenstock
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I agree with you on most points, and let’s leave the whole drama of what this app is, what it could have been, what it might be one day outside. What baffles me is that there is a pretty large group of users who fed Apple money and dedication for years – angry, disillusioned, fearful, worried about their businesses and livelihoods. Wether justified or not, that’s how people obviously feel.
And all that Apple can come up with is… silence. The only semi-official statement is via a FCP instructor quoting from an email exchange he had with some of their developers. It may be the Apple way of doing things but I seriously cannot see any other company in the world that would behave that way or could get away with this. That’s pretty poor, on a human level. -
I agree with almost all of what you have said with regards to what they might do.
But that would also mean color grading with Resolve on an iMac, audio postproduction on an iMac,
mac mini the only possible server solution and thousands and thousands of dollars
of thousands and thousands of people for video, audio, fibre channel and raid cards flushed right down the toilet.
That simply… isn’t nice and that’s nothing I can be excited or happy about. -
That’s not what Avid support and the Avid website says. Both explicitly say you will have to boot into the 32 bit Kernel.
Are you running it on a Mac in a 64bit Kernel? Very curious. -
Sort of. You have to call Adobe and tell them that you want a cross grade and they’ll do it (maybe against a little fee, don’t know). I had that with After Effects many years ago and it is still in the faq on Adobe’s website that they’ll do it.
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Avid is platform agnostic in that the license is for both Mac and Windows so if you have to move on you can do so without any hassle.
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Hi Jon,
thanks for the answers.
I have terrabytes of Prores material and a 90 per cent of the stuff I am getting is currently Prores so that is an issue. In any case, given the FCP situation, is is one that, sooner or later, will have to be dealt with. Plus the Prores dominance in my shop may drop given that the “sources” where it came from are in he same situation as I am now. I am surprised Adobe hasn’t stepped in with a codec alternative that competes with Prores but maybe Cineform will become just that.Tnx,
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I feared that would be the case. I just find it weird that the capture and playback tools that come with the cards can capture to Prores so one should think the very same should be possible in any other app using that card.
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I haven’t heard any warning signs with respect to that possibly happening and developer previews of Lion are out there. Even the old FCP seems to run, for now. Obviously all that will probably change another OS generation down the road or I may be totally wrong and it even changes in a couple of weeks when Lion goes online. But to be quite honest, at this point I couldn’t care less if I have to drop Apple alltogether.
Actually, I have been close to doing this several times and the only thing that kept me back was habit and fcp. I have workstations running windows for blu-ray authoring and I have absolutely nothing bad to say about Windows 7. My video IO works just fine under windows, too, future hardware will be a lot cheaper and I can crossgrade all relevant software that is currenty on the Mac if need be. -
In Media Composer. NOTHING is there in FCP X.
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xml, edl, omf, it’s all there.