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Apple Likely to Announce Final Cut Pro Update This Week With These New Features
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Opinion: Apple Final Cut Pro Is Not ‘Pro’ Anymore - Y.M.Cinema Magazine
It seems that Apple has removed its Pro App flagship from the ‘Professional’ tag. Since the beginning of the year, Apple has not released any update of FCP (Final Cut Pro). On the other side of the NLE map, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are deep into the race, as FCP remains on the starting...
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FALSE. You guys are just being clueless about what you are talking about. Check the link and you will know that FCPX is in a serious trouble as Apple is not solving problems for a long time. Since they are keep ignoring users after the open letter, they are DEF lazy with competitions.
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Same here. No complaints. Wonderful software. Constantly updated btw.
Seriously, why would someone actually downvote a simple, upbeat statement like that? Is there some horrid backstory involved? WTH? I'm going to hope it was an accidental click, because it will just depress me otherwise.I'll be at the FCP Creative Summit next week — if anyone reading this is going, say hello!
Anyway, enjoy the show!
Oh yes, I've been playing with it on the my new m4max 16 core, and I like to edit multi clips in faster than realtime playback, my m1max would do double speed, but one more bump up and the playback would be choppy. Well I had hoped m4max would make it smoother...nope absolutely the same result so no great. Other peeps said a 15 minute export on m1max was 55 seconds, on m4max 48 seconds. Soooooo if export speed hasn't been improved much and editing playback hasn't been improved much...then may return this sucker unless the new fcp x update makes it better. Also use capture one and import is much faster, but export was slower than molasses in january. So hopefully all just optimizations the software needs. But not making me too excited about dropping $5K...
The opinions of the people using this for actual work are more important than mine, just an occasional hobbyist. So for me, $5 a month would be great, but NOT if that means going subscription only for everyone else. But yeah, I dunno, does any software have a subscription option and full purchase both? Not many, probably.
Uh what? DaVinci will charge for major updates? Is there an article or announcement of this that I missed?
Apple doesn’t need the subscription money to develop fcp. They get money in return selling mac pros.
It’s insane to me that FCPX doesn’t have an option to do custom de-squeeze on anamorphic footage. There’s literally no way to de-squeeze 1.5x anamorphic footage. Hope they fix this soon.
You didn’t miss any announcement. That commenter is just wrong. The free version of DaVinci Resolve isn’t going anywhere. Certain new features are only in the paid version (such as all the AI features), but the free version will absolutely continue being updated just as often as the paid version.
Opinion: Apple Final Cut Pro Is Not ‘Pro’ Anymore - Y.M.Cinema Magazine
It seems that Apple has removed its Pro App flagship from the ‘Professional’ tag. Since the beginning of the year, Apple has not released any update of FCP (Final Cut Pro). On the other side of the NLE map, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are deep into the race, as FCP remains on the starting...
FALSE. You guys are just being clueless about what you are talking about. Check the link and you will know that FCPX is in a serious trouble as Apple is not solving problems for a long time. Since they are keep ignoring users after the open letter, they are DEF lazy with competitions.
Could you please explain what part of my post is false? I can tell you didn't read past the first 3 words. Seems like you called it false and then restated exactly what I said.
My point is that the problem is not a lack of funding - especially not a lack of funding that a subscription model would fix. Apple has the funds.
The problem is that FCP development not a priority for them. FCP is lagging behind because they just don't care.
After reading some of these posts, I have a controversial opinion, but since I have a few minutes, let me state it quickly.
I think Final Cut is in a good place - and sure, it could be better, but that's mostly amongst mid to high-level professionals, and THANKFULLY, there are really good alternatives for that group of people, and guess what, those people don't use FCPX. These days, Apple really isn't even trying to secure high-level professionals, which should be obvious at this point in time with how the market has changed and evolved with social media and the rise of algorithms.
FCPX is and has been super popular amongst YouTubers, hobbyists, videographers, social media 'influencers' and even professional solo filmmakers for well over a decade now. It launched to great dismay in 2011, but anyone who thinks FCP7 is still better than FCPX since at least the last 5-6+ years is stuck in a different decade and perhaps lacks the ability to adapt to modern times.
FCPX at its core is an amazing cutting program through and through, and while it surely lacks some advanced effects and transitions and obviously lacks a clean way to work with groups of people - if that's your problem, then why are you using Final Cut? It offers SPEED and STABILITY like no other and has consistently offered that combination since the start, even back when we were stuck on Intel and AMD, which is when it truly outpaced the competition by miles. Did we forget?
It has only been since Blackmagic entered the picture with Resolve and offered a competitive pricing model that people started to become disillusioned and wanting an arm and a leg. Forgetting that Apple offered the best bang for buck years and years before and are probably the only reason Blackmagic saw the potential to make it happen, arguably, if it wasn't for FCPX, then we wouldn't be sitting here talking about it all.
I bought FCPX back in late 2013, and at this point in time, its value for money has been absolutely incredible. It has always been there, and I still occasionally open it up when I want to cut something quickly and fast, and I really love it. Its interface is somehow still really good and shockingly was always ahead of its time in terms of ease of use.
People who hate and complain about it clearly lack intuitive knowledge; if you don't like it, then use one of the many other options like wtf? And if you complain because of your 'love' for it then that's kinda weird tbh.
My opinion is based on experience having worked professionally for 12, going on 13 years in the film industry. I have thoroughly used and mastered all the major NLEs, working between them on dozens and dozens of projects to date. My current main editor is, in fact, Resolve, but I also still use Premiere Pro and AE as they are still the best for high-end projects, even though their stability always leaves something to be desired.
I think Final Cut is in a good place - and sure, it could be better, but that's mostly amongst mid to high-level professionals, and THANKFULLY, there are really good alternatives for that group of people, and guess what, those people don't use FCPX. These days, Apple really isn't even trying to secure high-level professionals, which should be obvious at this point in time with how the market has changed and evolved with social media and the rise of algorithms.
FCPX is and has been super popular amongst YouTubers, hobbyists, videographers, social media 'influencers' and even professional solo filmmakers for well over a decade now. It launched to great dismay in 2011, but anyone who thinks FCP7 is still better than FCPX since at least the last 5-6+ years is stuck in a different decade and perhaps lacks the ability to adapt to modern times.
FCPX at its core is an amazing cutting program through and through, and while it surely lacks some advanced effects and transitions and obviously lacks a clean way to work with groups of people - if that's your problem, then why are you using Final Cut? It offers SPEED and STABILITY like no other and has consistently offered that combination since the start, even back when we were stuck on Intel and AMD, which is when it truly outpaced the competition by miles. Did we forget?
It has only been since Blackmagic entered the picture with Resolve and offered a competitive pricing model that people started to become disillusioned and wanting an arm and a leg. Forgetting that Apple offered the best bang for buck years and years before and are probably the only reason Blackmagic saw the potential to make it happen, arguably, if it wasn't for FCPX, then we wouldn't be sitting here talking about it all.
I bought FCPX back in late 2013, and at this point in time, its value for money has been absolutely incredible. It has always been there, and I still occasionally open it up when I want to cut something quickly and fast, and I really love it. Its interface is somehow still really good and shockingly was always ahead of its time in terms of ease of use.
People who hate and complain about it clearly lack intuitive knowledge; if you don't like it, then use one of the many other options like wtf? And if you complain because of your 'love' for it then that's kinda weird tbh.
My opinion is based on experience having worked professionally for 12, going on 13 years in the film industry. I have thoroughly used and mastered all the major NLEs, working between them on dozens and dozens of projects to date. My current main editor is, in fact, Resolve, but I also still use Premiere Pro and AE as they are still the best for high-end projects, even though their stability always leaves something to be desired.
That's just plain incorrect. We have 8 Resolve Studio stations at work. The dongles were installed with version 16 a few years back. They are all running version 19 now, and Blackmagic hasn't charged a single dollar for any updates. All updates are free for Studio license holders. Not to mention they have a free edition as well and it's been free for ages.
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I know a thing or two about After Effects (being my livelihood), and I can tell you there's no software like it.
Technically speaking there no real competitors to it.
Motion is cool, and I played with it about 12-13 years ago, but it's in no way a competitor to After Effects.
If apple wanted for it to be a real player, they would have needee to develop and update it constantly.
I purchased DaVinci Resolve Studio version 14 and I can use version 19 now. Never have I paid anything else for the updates in between.
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Can I draw a circle around my annoying cousin and have them removed instantly from the Christmas videos?
this is actually very nice from Blackmagic (I believe they own DaVinci)
Back in the day I think there was like a small startup that sold a solution to make fcp collaborative, but then it was bought by adobe? It’s too bad apple doesn’t work on that, because the editor is really really fast and a joy to use.
Yes and they usually provide DaVinci Resolve Studio license when you purchase a Blackmagic hardware, even those cheaper than the app itself.
This comment shows perfectly how we got in this "subscription" mess in the first place: a lot of people's unwillingness to pay any significant amount of money for software.
When the iPhone App Store came out, tons of apps were sold for super low prices hoping to capitalize on volume sales. People got used to paying $1-5 for an app. Works great for developers doing a one-off timer app or something, but less well for something more complex that requires evolving features, collaboration, etc.
Instead of the old model of selling major releases at a substantial cost, the idea of "subscribing" (really, renting) apps got more popular. Customers were conditioned to low up-front prices, even if they added up to much more over the long run. Consistent recurring revenue makes it possible to hire more people to iterate and maintain. IMO, that also got thoroughly abused by developers expecting to rent out an app forever while just tweaking it at their leisure. That's how we got to the point where basically every app under the sun wants to reach into your pocket for "the price of a cup of coffee" every month until the end of time.
Meanwhile, I forked over $300 like 8 years ago for Final Cut Pro on the Mac. It's gotten an insane number of updates since then. If I'd been renting it at the price of the iPad version this whole time, I'd have paid $400 and counting and still be left owning exactly nothing if I stopped paying. As it is, I own this software and can if I choose simply keep using it forever. And if Apple decided next week that a major new version was coming out with a bunch of features I wanted, or could use to create billable work, I'd buy it!
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