[Steve Connor]

FWIW my Adobe apps seem to be running fine on the latest El Cap

[Steve Connor]

[David Roth Weiss] “In this case, whatever the advantage may be of updating the OS, if it is known that it can potentially put an editor’s fundamental source of revenue at risk, any user considering the upgrade/update, especially without making a protection clone first, is clearly NOT weighing the costs vs the benefits. And, a mistake can be a sure way to lose clients, and in some cases, potentially a career.

Since managing post-production is every bit as important for professional editors as performing their craft, and since I see that often overlooked here, I raise the question about the importance of upgrading the OS to get people thinking as if they’re managing a real business, because most are. And, because good and bad habits tend to follow editors throughout their careers, learning to think like a business/facility manager or a post-supervisor, and at least knowing (and hopefully adopting) “best practices,” is something of enormous value for editors at every level. I suspect you most likely agree with me, but by all means, please respond if you don’t.
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I agree with all of this, of course. I just want to know when I can make the Professional decision to upgrade to an OS that will potentially, when it’s stable, improve my daily working experience.

I’ve only ever been bitten by a Mac OS upgrade once and I don’t plan to do it again.

[Steve Connor]

[Andrew Kimery] “Close. Apple doesn’t make enough money anymore from people buying Pro Apps or Mac Pros to warrant much of a marketing push. Hence the discussion about product visibility between Rich, Oliver, Mark and Shane and my subsequent example of how info about the ProApps is really buried on Apple’s site where it used to be much more accessible.

I would be lying if I said I didn’t like the times I’d go to Apple.com and see a info about a FCP update gracing the front page.
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Did Apple ever advertise FCP in the Broadcast & Film trade magazines? I seem to remember seeing adverts for “Classic” FCP somewhere

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] ” “It’s not good enough for pro work” which is constantly implied in this forum “

I don’t see this at all, hence the thread I started earlier. I do see a lot of intelligent discussion about workflow which is fascinating.

[Steve Connor]

[David Roth Weiss] “The big question is why would a professional editor sucessfuily editing away on a perfectly running Mac need to update to El Capitan?”

Because, despite the bugs, it seems to be noticeably faster in operation than Yosemite. I’ve got it on a test partition and so far it’s very good.

[Steve Connor]

It’s not a very detailed workflow piece and they don’t talk about why FCPX was a good choice for them.

[Steve Connor]

[Kevin Monahan] “Don’t update yet is still the word.
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Any more detail on that please, if you are still saying that after the first point update to El Cap then there must be a real problem!

[Steve Connor]

[David Roth Weiss] “And, don’t forget about Adobe Audition, a very capable app that’s fully integrated with Premiere, which has very sophisticated busing and a plethora of other very sophisticated audio editing and processing tools.”

If only Logic was as well integrated with FCPX

[Steve Connor]

[Oliver Peters] “Hopefully the next update will prove me wrong.
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I imagine the next uptake will be an El Capitan maintenance release

[Steve Connor]

[David Roth Weiss] “Hey Steve, why don’t you clone your working boot drive and update to El Capitan, then you can text safely and tell us of your results.”

When the good people at Adobe say I can 🙂