Tom Wolsky
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“do we have any signature adoption of this editing system that anyone can call to?”
Not sure why you see this as of being of any importance. What’s the signature adoption of iMovie? Signature adoption of Premiere for that matter.
I just don’t think this is relevant to anything but a very small portion of a potential user base. Frankly I think Apple has realized the market space is an irrelevancy to them. Clearly you think the application is a complete failure. We’ll see. I think it’s doing well. The App Store is selling a lot of product. FCP is high in the App Store. Seems logical to me.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
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I think the disruption and unrest was/is in such a marginal community of users in relation to the whole community of Apple product users that Apple, however much they may care, simply preferred to shrug and accept the damage. The pro apps developers were clearly aware that the the reaction was going to be very negative; they perhaps underestimated the users ability to energize that unrest and sustain it. So, was it worth it for Apple? I believe in the long term, yes it was. It was a necessary evil. Given there was going to be a serious push back against the product, was the release well handled? Absolutely not at all. It was mismanaged from NAB on, and further compounded with the actual release. The primary mismanagement was the refusal or reluctance to address what they knew was coming. Ignoring it, pretending nothing was going to happen, all was going to be rosy was just silly, and a case of marketing hopes and dreams overruling common sense and competent management.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
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If a market has reached or is nearing saturation, it becomes necessary to change the market. FCP probably exceeded the number of “professional” editors in the world. It was clear there was really no room for growth.
Apple is a mobile device company, laptops, tablets, phones. It’s hardware and software is designed primarily for that market space. A common application base that supports media from mobile devices on tablets and laptops and on to larger hardware was needed. This is were Apple decided it had to go. If these devices or similar devices are going to be used for content creation by professionals then Apple hardware and software will support them; if not, then it won’t. The market space that uses portable devices from phones on up is the market space Apple has chosen to support. Steve Jobs said it a number of years ago. This is what they are and where they’re going. If you’re not going down that road Apple can only offer you limited support. They are not a computer company. They stopped being a computer company years ago. Their interest in software for computers is pretty limited.
When looked at it from this point of view their decision process is pretty inevitable, however poorly the execution of that process was delivered.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Aperture images are in the Aperture library, which is a closed system. When you import an image into FCP from Aperture it’s copied into the event. Changing the image in Aperture will have no effect on the image in the FCP event. You have to edit the image that’s in the event. This work perfectly in Photoshop. In Aperture you have to go through the export process and replace the image in the FCP event.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
The High Quality Media contains the ProRes data base. By dump I mean move to the the trash. Which actual files refer to which bits of the project I don’t have any way of knowing, but these files can be deleted at any time and FCP will rebuild them.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
That’s correct. A media file gets created in the Render folder. The media file is in ProRes.
When you export media with current settings you’re not exporting HDV. You’re exporting in the render format, which by default is ProRes.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
This is not entirely true. While FCP does use a data base to keep track of the render files, the rendered media is in a folder attached to the project and can be dumped at any time. You can also trash renders from inside FCP.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Yes, you can. Select the transition and copy it. Move to the edit you want to place it and select the edit with either [ ] or and then paste.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
The output and render files are ProRes. Nothing is processed to ProRes prior to that time.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
You could do that, but don’t. First, it’s very slow, and second, it’s prone to failure. You should export media using current settings. That’s the master. Take that to Compressor.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press