I just spent the last 15 minutes pouring over the specs.
The software looks great, a medium step up, seems to me the real time is limited still to a select group of effects.
Still it will be a time saver. Since I'm still on G3, there is no advantage in upgrading.
I didn't quite understand the big deal about Offline RT. You can capture in 1.2.5 and 2.0 at that lower setting to help save storage and later recapture according to your EDL.
I was hoping for full real time across the board.
I like the narrative track record, it didn't tell me if that was unlimited tracks wise as that can turn FCP into a light duty music editing software.
I was thinking Apple would annouce FCP 3.0 at MWSF and bundle it with the "G5" but the evidence isn't indicating anything special on the "new hardware" except a speed bump.
Of course the marketing is better for FCP at DVexpo. I imagine this update will help sell quite a few more top-line G4 systems, maybe Apple is clearing stock for the next speed bump and will announce something nice.
In the recent DV magazine, they listed the G4800DP as the slowest machine among 6 dual processor workstations. Of course the hardware on the wintel machines outclassed the base line G4.
IDE vs SCSI and pc 133 ram versus DDRram and rambus. If you scaled the PCs down to apple spec ont he auxillary hardware the G4 could have been on the top of the list.
I'm wondering what you FCP users out there have to say.
Bob
The software looks great, a medium step up, seems to me the real time is limited still to a select group of effects.
Still it will be a time saver. Since I'm still on G3, there is no advantage in upgrading.
I didn't quite understand the big deal about Offline RT. You can capture in 1.2.5 and 2.0 at that lower setting to help save storage and later recapture according to your EDL.
I was hoping for full real time across the board.
I like the narrative track record, it didn't tell me if that was unlimited tracks wise as that can turn FCP into a light duty music editing software.
I was thinking Apple would annouce FCP 3.0 at MWSF and bundle it with the "G5" but the evidence isn't indicating anything special on the "new hardware" except a speed bump.
Of course the marketing is better for FCP at DVexpo. I imagine this update will help sell quite a few more top-line G4 systems, maybe Apple is clearing stock for the next speed bump and will announce something nice.
In the recent DV magazine, they listed the G4800DP as the slowest machine among 6 dual processor workstations. Of course the hardware on the wintel machines outclassed the base line G4.
IDE vs SCSI and pc 133 ram versus DDRram and rambus. If you scaled the PCs down to apple spec ont he auxillary hardware the G4 could have been on the top of the list.
I'm wondering what you FCP users out there have to say.
Bob
