Cool app, but $25 seems a little expensive.
Pros aren't going to complain about a $25 app as cool as this, 14 y.o. gamers using their daddy's iPad, maybe.
Cool app, but $25 seems a little expensive.
I really don't get comments like these. You switched at a drop of a hat, but you have no intention of going back? Then why comment on a third party Final Cut Pro X utility that looks pretty cool and shows the strength of the platform?
What people don't understand, and it is mostly Apple's fault for the confusion, is that when Apple switched from supporting both Cocoa and Carbon developing environments to just supporting Cocoa, Apple had to rewrite Final Cut from the ground up. That is a major undertaking because Final Cut Pro 7 was huge piece of software. Apple took the same approach it did when it released OSX. It brought out a product that contained a solid foundation, but lacked many features the previous version had. Unfortunately, many of these features Pros were relying on. Apple should have foresaw this, but the way it likes secrecy sort of backfired on it.
Since the release though, Apple said it would quickly be adding features, and it temporarily put Final Cut Pro 7 back on the market. True to it's word in the fifteen months it has been out, Apple has released at least 7 significant updates. It even offers a free demo now. To each their own, but in comparison to other options, it also costs a lot less.
On the App Store, it has almost 4 out of 5 stars, which seems pretty good considering all the angry people who reviewed it when it first came out and who gave it one star (which brings the average down).
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You might prefer Premiere, but as I already mentioned, Apple released 7 free significant updates since the first version was released. Many people who dogged the program went back and praised the updates. Lots of people liked what Final Cut Pro X brought to the table in terms of new features, they just hated the lack of relied upon features and the initial lack of backwards compatibility between projects (since addressed).
Apple obviously is serious about the program or it wouldn't be going to town on bringing in free updates adding features so quickly. It also is clearly listening to the pro community in doing so as many of the added back features are the ones pros gripped about.
This is interesting on many levels.
As a photographer and daily user of Aperture I sincerely hope Apple is showings its hand about their pro line. (All grumbling aside, I still like Aperture better than Lightroom. An update is needed though. Aperture X, anyone?)
I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE having a companion App for Aperture on my iPad.
Let me rate, tag and sort photos on my iPad and sync that with Aperture. That would be a dream come true. I wouldn't even need all the "heavy lifting" such as non-destrcitive editing for now.
Yes, absolutely. It should be possible to create companion iPad interfaces for everything to do with Apple Pro software. Full screen mode is very nice, but I find that I search for tool bars a lot, and this would solve it elegantly and perfectly. Not only for Aperture, but think of Logic! An off screen, on table mixing board would be heaven. It's almost expected at this point. I hope this is a glimpse of things to come.
Edit: This got me thinking, and I looked around and it seems there ARE apps like this for Logic. I had no idea. Excited to check some out! Wow, the times we live in!
I LOVE companion apps. I wish more companies did it.
Corel Painter has Cinco which makes Corel Painter such a joy to use (I love having an extra set of menus on my iPad).
Luxology has LuxPreview for Modo which offputs your render onto your iPad. Its actually really convenient.
Having "soft" remote control solutions for creative Apps (FCP, Logic, etc.) is gonna cripple or even kill HW based solutions. With touch screens you get all the benefits of "manual controls" (knobs/sliders/etc.), MUCH cheaper prices, and HW that does not go obsolete to expand functionality.
This looks pretty cool. But I switched to Premiere CS6 not too long after X came out. No intention of returning to the final cut suite.
Timeline scrubbing!?!
At last! Skimming is good, but scrubbing back and forth with 2 fingers like you do in QT is the one thing i really miss!
I charge £25 an hour for my time - if this saves me an hour in a day it will have paid for itself. by teatime.
Cool app, but $25 seems a little expensive.
If you got the job done an hour faster, wouldn't that net you less income?
Especially when you consider how much a hardware device would cost that offered the same level of functionality. Shuttle/jog controllers can cost hundreds.
The app is missing the tactile feel of a physical jog wheel though. With a hardware device, you could operate it by feel alone.
This looks pretty cool. But I switched to Premiere CS6 not too long after X came out. No intention of returning to the final cut suite.
This sounds like a great idea! But has FCP X gotten much better since its first release?
Apple should have come out with configurable multitouch control surfaces for all their pro apps by now, & an API for the USB bus access for lower latency interfacing like this.
As well as matching the amount of drivespace for backups on icloud to the size iPad you bought.
Apple seems to be lacking in the greater overall vision with regard to iPad software. Such awesome potential. Get on the ball, Apple.
This sounds like a great idea! But has FCP X gotten much better since its first release? I just ditched it and used Premiere ever since, and it does everything much better and faster than FCP X did at the time of release. Is it worth switching to FCP X at this time? I liked how it's simplified, but then I realized that you can only do about 10% of the things a video editor should do, not to mention the incompatibility of plugins…
Can somebody please tell me how to batch export out multiple sequences from FCPX? Like, say a guy like me has 45 separate projects that need to all be batched out at the same time as holy separate h.264's, is that doable yet in FCPX?
Funny how in FCP7, they had a simple File>Batch Export option. What happened to that? Is there a workaround? Is there something I'm missing?