[Will Griffith]

[Buddy Couch] “I want everyone to take a DEEP breath and realize that your FCP7 didn’t quit working at 5:30am yesterday morning.”

Nobody is saying it did. FCP 7 will be running here for some time.
However this IS a response to years of Apple behaving the way they do.

[Will Griffith]

[Chris Kenny] “Had Apple not been interested in the pro market in the long run, they wouldn’t have bothered with a long and no doubt expensive rewrite of Final Cut in the first place.”

I will agree it was long.. but it is yet to be extensive since half of it is missing. 🙂

[Will Griffith]

He could change my mind if he could provide a past example that demonstrates Apple’s desire to be in post production and professional products for the long haul.

[Will Griffith]

Discontinuing Final Cut Server and providing no roadmap or alternative
was the last straw for me. That is the reason.

As far as the “next genration” We heard that about Apple two years ago.. and we got FCPx.
Maybe in a year or two it will be something.. or maybe not.

[Will Griffith]

I preferred Apple’s solutions.. but hey do not offer those solutions anymore.

Not sure how better to explain it.

[Will Griffith]

We have it and I like it.. but it does not have the same functionality we require.

Maybe the CatDV folks are listening… I hope.

[Will Griffith]

AVID & daVinci

[Will Griffith]

do you have the entire folder structure from the card or just the MP4 files?

if you have the BPAV folder structure then use xdcam transfer and “add source” then navigate
to the folder. this will make the clips show up in xdcam transfer then you can convert them

if you have just MP4 files than you will need this to use or convert the files…
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/

[Will Griffith]

Apple provided the Promise solution when the XRaid was discontinued.
That solution fulfilled the needs immediately.

The solution(s) they have supplied for the XServe do not.

-will

[Will Griffith]

Ok. That sound great. I hope we hear…
“OSX Server 10.7 for generic intel machines available Q1 2011”

It would be perfect and would love to build a beastly rack of DIY servers to do it
but I just don’t see it happening.

There is a better chance of them EOL OSX Server.

Hope I am wrong.