Final Cut Pro 5 at NAB?

[machan]

i'm pretty confident that 'fantasia' will end up being a 3D modeling/animation app. i just hope it gets thrown into the production suite so when i upgrade to v.2 i get a whole new app with it.

as for FCP 5, all i really really want is prefs that go with each project and less rendering time all around.

 

[Surreal]

i love C4D...but if apple makes a 3d animation/modelling prog...

well. i don't acually have a scenario to properly illustrate the suparlative nature of my hypothetical joy.

 

[NickFalk]

3D why?

Don't really see any reason for Apple to enter the 3D-arena. There are already plenty of applications out there Maya, Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Animation:Master etc.

To build an application with any sort of quality compared to the above mentioned would probably take extreme amounts of resources and even if they managed to pull it through they would probably have a hard time convincing the pro's too change from their favourite applications. Not to mentione the fact that we're talking about a fairly small niché-market to begin with...

They could release an easy to use compositing-tool though, like a Shake Express sort of thingy. They could probably re-use a lot of the code from other applications and make this with a [relatively] small effort...

 

[h'biki]

My guess: Sound. A Pro Tools Express sort of thingy. The sound mixing is the one area I find FCP to be lacking the most they fixed the hopeless internal title-software through Livetype last time, now they can take care of this with a new mixing-app. Heck, even the code-name Fantasia connects perfectly to the mixture of sound and image... 🙂

(Hmm, I personally find LiveType to be clunky... and much rather use AE or Motion for titles... but I get your point)

I think it needs a dedicated mixing app too. Soundtrack is great for writing stings and guide tracks, but I wouldn't mix with it. The OMF/XML export to Logic Pro is apparently very buggy - I haven't tried it yet, but can't comment it. That said, Logic Pro isn't geared to mixing the same way that ProTools is. Its just a different workflow. They could gear the Logic Express interface to sound mixing it and bundle it with FCP5. That would help set apart FCP5 from FCEHD.