Apple Offering 90-Day Free Trials for Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X

[bladerunner88]

Sorta late, shut down my video operation when Apple abandoned me - seems like a long time now. I figured out a way to use a previously purchased version of FC with a legacy machine. Perfectly adequate for the few times I do personal/instructional videos. Yea!

Sure Would be nice if  still supported Professional Photographers - would ave loved to be running Aperture at Warp Speed on my Shiny Nu MacPro, tearing thru hundreds of 60Mb 300DPI RAWFiles a day.

I guess you only support "some" Artists and only give "some" of us the Tools they need to create......

 

[nylonsteel]

sure ill do the free trial if it comes with the hardware in the picture

 

[robsp2000]

Davinci Resolve is everything FCP should have become. I tried very hard to stick with FCP after v7 but it was infuriating to work with. Resolve is so solid and, by the way, free.

 

[MICHAELSD]

Subscription is one reason I would not buy/use Premiere. Final Cut is already really cheap compared to one year of premier payments.

I do agree that there needs to be an iPad version, seems like it should have happened already.

I would buy an iPad Pro today if it had Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X. Better yet if it was bundled into an iCloud plan or included with a new iPad Pro.

 

[TheDailyApple]

lol what sane professional is still cutting on Final Cut Pro in 2020? Great measure by Apple, but I have to laugh.

Quite a few actually. Avid seems to be the most popular among feature film editors, but commercials, social media contracts, bonus film content and more is done by professionals using Davinci, FCP X, Premiere Pro, and Avid. I prefer FCP X, but when working with other people, sometimes use another one for compatibility's sake. Premiere is my least favorite, it's about half as fast as the other three.

 

[martinX]

Not seeing the trial version of Logic Pro X in Australia yet...

 

[arvinsim]

After debating over using FCPX and Resolve, I went with Resolve simply because I don't want to be stuck to Apple when it comes t o hardware. Didn't regret my decision one bit.

 

[citysnaps]

lol what sane professional is still cutting on Final Cut Pro in 2020? Great measure by Apple, but I have to laugh.

Curious... what do you use for your professional editing?

 

[satchmo]

I’ll have to give this a try. We have Creative Cloud at work so I put together a ‘quick’ video using Premiere. I was not impressed by the UI and inserting transitions seem rather clunky.

I’m hoping the hardware overhead to run FCX isn’t ridiculously high.

 

[nickmilitello]

lol what sane professional is still cutting on Final Cut Pro in 2020? Great measure by Apple, but I have to laugh.

Have you ever used FCPX? Gonna doubt it with a statement like that. I've used Premiere, Avid, and Resolve and would say that FCPX is the most powerful NLE out there. and yes, Im a professional and could run circles around most with the speed of FCPX. But yeah keep laughing...
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I’ll have to give this a try. We have Creative Cloud at work so I put together a ‘quick’ video using Premiere. I was not impressed by the UI and inserting transitions seem rather clunky.

I’m hoping the hardware overhead to run FCX isn’t ridiculously high.

Give FCPX a week or so to get used to it. It definitely takes a bit to get comfortable with Magnetic Timeline and few other features, but it once you do you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

lol what sane professional is still cutting on Final Cut Pro in 2020? Great measure by Apple, but I have to laugh.

Most professionals actually. Then they collaborate with Logic Pro X and Pro Tools.

 

[bpeeps]

Most professionals actually. Then they collaborate with Logic Pro X and Pro Tools.

Incorrect. Most professionals switched to Avid, Premiere, or Resolve. 10 years ago you could walk into any post house in LA and find them on FCP. Now it's Avid for big companies and Premiere or Resolve for independent professionals.

 

[DeepIn2U]

I think Apple should have continued to develop Aperture just to have a complete the end to end workflow experience. They should also kept adding to their professional portfolio of apps for Illustration and Image editing (QuarkXpress, Affinity Photo and Corel Draw). There are many offshelf brands they could buy and bring in house to help keep Adobe in line. Remember, the reason why Apple even bought the original developers of Final Cut and Logic was the fear of abandonment by third party devs. Steve Jobs made the strategic decision after spending 14 million to buying these pro creative apps to kill the Windows versions. With Adobe also being available on Windows, many creatives can easily switch platforms, unless you really love macOS and the hardware tax that much.

Huh? I see no logic in this statement for Apple purchasing amongst if not THE most powerful and expandable professional audio composition software and team of creators/developers of Logic.

Apple is heavy into music, dare I say more so when Jobs was around since he saw music as an art not just something for consumer consumption/entertainment like the current crop of executives seem to do.

Logic, as you recall was purchased just after ver 6 and shown off with the PowerMac G5 & Panther launch and man it was definitely not shown as a fearful push against the competition; 215 simultaneous instruments/tracks playing was almost double what the competition had: FruityLoops, CuBase, etc.

 

[AdamJD]

lol what sane professional is still cutting on Final Cut Pro in 2020? Great measure by Apple, but I have to laugh.

The ones who tried it. Thank you for giving us something to laugh at too.

 

[baypharm]

I think it is great marketing on their part. I do believe many who will try it will enjoy and buy a permanent copy.

 

[InuNacho]

I don't understand FCPX. I prefer Premiere due to its FCP7 like setup but theres no arguing that FCPX is pretty damn advanced, at least in the rendering and background process side.
What I don't understand is how it forces you to be limited. I was editing a wedding recently with 2 cameras, a slideshow, and mic recording audio squirreled away under that altar.

If this were Premiere I could just slap things around like layers in Photoshop and be done with it. FCPX had me fighting just to do simple things.

 

[arthography]

Davinci Resolve is everything FCP should have become. I tried very hard to stick with FCP after v7 but it was infuriating to work with. Resolve is so solid and, by the way, free.

I tried, as a beginner in video, davinci and fcp. Davinci was the better workflow...

 

[FightTheFuture]

Incorrect. Most professionals switched to Avid, Premiere, or Resolve. 10 years ago you could walk into any post house in LA and find them on FCP. Now it's Avid for big companies and Premiere or Resolve for independent professionals.

Add Quantel and Autodesk and you proved why Apple backed out of post and into the talking heads on YouTube and video segments for journalists. It was actually a brilliant move.

 

[Tech198]

They didn't have free trials before ? What a nutter. If its to get you to buy it. why not? Join the bandwagon of others.

 

[skitidetdu]

I’d like to see Apple bundle its pro software into a subscription, or even include it with an iCloud plan. (i.e. a 1TB plan could include Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X.)

If Apple’s Pro applications were available on iPad Pro I’d purchase one to supplement or even replace my MacBook Pro. As it is now it’s lacking a few key applications that would justify a purchase for me. The new MacBook Air is tempting, but I foresee myself eventually replacing my Mac with an iPad.

I do t see the reason why, borh Logic and final cut are petty inexpensive compared to the competition. A subscription fee would become far more expensive than just buying it.

 

[Gwendolini]

I don't understand FCPX. I prefer Premiere due to its FCP7 like setup but theres no arguing that FCPX is pretty damn advanced, at least in the rendering and background process side.
What I don't understand is how it forces you to be limited. I was editing a wedding recently with 2 cameras, a slideshow, and mic recording audio squirreled away under that altar.

If this were Premiere I could just slap things around like layers in Photoshop and be done with it. FCPX had me fighting just to do simple things.

The magnetic timeline is difficult to get used to when one comes from track based video editing.
This article helped me overcome this difficulty: https://library.creativecow.net/austin_charlie/FCPX-Timeline/1

As for your wedding video, I would probably have created a Multicam object (the best Multicam implementation I have seen yet, as you can adjust it afterwards without repercussions) out of the two camera and the audio recordings and added the slideshow in a secondary storyline (B-Roll).

I may not make money with my editing, but I have edited over 50 pieces of five minute music videos and if I would have done that in Premiere (which I had to) or Avid, it would have taken so much longer due to their track based structure. Connected clips are much better when it comes to staying in sync than tracks (due to enabling and disabling tracks all the time).

And the title tool integration is so much more fluid, you can create templates in Motion easily and reuse them as often as you want.

 

[TonyTech]

Good move Apple...I would appreciate it even more if you give us the same free-trial period on Motion and Compressor.

 

[incoherent_1]

Nice!

I already use it, but it would be great to see some posts from people that were hesitant at the price tag get to try it in depth and keep it.

Agree! I also think this could be targeting people interested in switching from a competing product. When you’re already all-in on your workflow, it takes awhile to really try an alternative platform, no matter how much you may dislike what you’re already using.

 

[InuNacho]

The magnetic timeline is difficult to get used to when one comes from track based video editing.
This article helped me overcome this difficulty: https://library.creativecow.net/austin_charlie/FCPX-Timeline/1

As for your wedding video, I would probably have created a Multicam object (the best Multicam implementation I have seen yet, as you can adjust it afterwards without repercussions) out of the two camera and the audio recordings and added the slideshow in a secondary storyline (B-Roll).

I may not make money with my editing, but I have edited over 50 pieces of five minute music videos and if I would have done that in Premiere (which I had to) or Avid, it would have taken so much longer due to their track based structure. Connected clips are much better when it comes to staying in sync than tracks (due to enabling and disabling tracks all the time).

And the title tool integration is so much more fluid, you can create templates in Motion easily and reuse them as often as you want.

The only reason I use FCPX was because it was on sale a while back and I figured I'd give it a go. I have another wedding I'm shooting coming up, well with the virus I'm not sure but soonish and I'll give FCPX another chance after reading that article.
I am disappointed in Apple's "dumbing down" of FCP from a very technical pre-X which I used during my community college days to this new system I have to relearn that isn't backwards compatible with old projects.

I suppose its a case of "different strokes for different folks". I really like the track based systems over the magnetic system.

 

[Duane Martin]

This is great now that students are having to stay at home. My University is offering free Adobe Suite during this time as they extended the school licenses to include student's personal computers. I just really dislike Premier over Final Cut so I'm one of the few that won't get sucked into Adobe's subscription land after. I just wish my University used Final Cut or even Davinci Resolve in some classes. I assume being Mac only does hurt Final Cut's greater spread too.

Adobe completely failed the school I teach at; the students did not get the licence extension to work from home so now I have an excuse to get them working in Resolve and FCP X (if they have access to a Mac). Adobe's fail is a gain for students as they get to experience some potentially better options. I am also hoping that getting them to learn another NLE will make the transition to AVID Media Composer next semester easier.

BTW for all of those dismissing FCP X in professional workflows you need to really open your eyes. It is out there a lot more than you might expect.