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Final Cut Studio 3?

Truffy said:
For me, the colour of the UI isn't really a problem, any more than Aperture's. The fact that it looks like it was designed by Kai Krause's less talented brother is another matter.
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I fail to see how Color's interface would keep someone from doing their job. The only thing that needs changing is in functionality/stability. Wider codec support, better translation of the FCP timeline, simple effects translation (ie speed changes), stuff like that. Color's UI is functional... it does what it needs to.
 
The look of interface doesn't bother me either, but they've certainly had enough time to "pretty" it up a bit.
 
bigbossbmb said:
I fail to see how Color's interface would keep someone from doing their job. The only thing that needs changing is in functionality/stability. Wider codec support, better translation of the FCP timeline, simple effects translation (ie speed changes), stuff like that. Color's UI is functional... it does what it needs to.
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The look of the application just does not match up to what Final Cut and Motion have, for example. It looks like it doesnt belong in that box at all! If they made the overall UI a little better, you wouldnt be hearing any complaint from me.
 
Stang, you can't have the GUI match. Colorists need an extremely color neutral space so that it does not impact their work. I strongly urge you to take a peak at Da Vinci 2k+ GUI to see what i mean.
 
If Apple wants to change the font and the shape of the dialog boxes to something more Apple-like fine. But please only do that after all the major problems w/Color (and there are a lot of them) get fixed first.


Lethal
 
bigbossbmb said:
I fail to see how Color's interface would keep someone from doing their job.
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I guess I fail to see how making Color's interface more attractive and in line with other FCS applications could be a 'bad thing'. Forget the colour of the UI, I fully agree that that should stay the same (heck, I could live with it if FCP and others took the same approach). But the workflow/integration could be less obtuse and, frankly, the UI less goddam ugly.

That said, an overhaul of the UI isn't the highest on the list of things that need to be addressed.

Peace.
 
With the Open CL announcement, I'm wondering what is going to be the best course of action when FCS 3 is announced. I have a 2006 Mac Pro and there are no graphics cards for this machine that will enable h.264 encoding and Open CL (although I have read many reports that putting the HD 4870 in will work as long as you have 10.5.7 installed).

Also, it appears that Apple is using NVidia cards more and more. This doesn't bode well with Color users (which is made specifically for ATi cards) unless they update Color in FCS 3 to work the same on both card platforms.

I was upset about today's Open CL requirements announcement, but I guess I can't be too angry; my computer is almost 3 years old, after all. Let's just say that I am eagerly awaiting FCS 3's system requirements.

P-Worm
 
I think the new release of FCS is going to be Snow Leopard only.


As for Color interface hindering work I say yes it does.

It controls totally goofy like it is on it's own operating system, some logical simple things like opening a file are baffling at first because it acts like no other program out there.


It's a powerful program but I doubt it was program designed to be used as apart of suite for prosumer and home video business people. I bet it was made for a full time colorist who is always using just that one program and it shows.
 
So now WWDC has passed when is the next chance for it to be realeased? A special event as I am unawares to any big expos that it could be released at...
 
Chaos123x said:
It's a powerful program but I doubt it was program designed to be used as apart of suite for prosumer and home video business people. I bet it was made for a full time colorist who is always using just that one program and it shows.
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So instead of users taking a small amount of time to learn the interface (after a couple hours w/an instructional video I knew the Color UI inside and out) you think Apple should just dumb the whole thing down? That would just suck. For users that find Color too intimidating they should just stick to the 3-Way in FCP or use 3rd party products like Colorista or Magic Bullet Looks.


Lethal
 
Chaos123x said:
It's a powerful program but I doubt it was program designed to be used as apart of suite for prosumer and home video business people. I bet it was made for a full time colorist who is always using just that one program and it shows.
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If I have my history right, it was a stand-alone product that Apple purchased in incorportated in to Final Cut Studio, which is why it looks so different. I kinda like the no frills interface, but do wish they'd updated the "Finder" portion of the app. Still, I think Final Touch alone cost probably, more than Final Cut Studio 2.
 
Carl Spackler said:
If I have my history right, it was a stand-alone product that Apple purchased in incorportated in to Final Cut Studio, which is why it looks so different. I kinda like the no frills interface, but do wish they'd updated the "Finder" portion of the app. Still, I think Final Touch alone cost probably, more than Final Cut Studio 2.
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Final Touch 2k, which is what Color is today, was a 25k app.


Lethal
 
FCS updates

Color doesn't have the look and feel of the other apps. I've always thought the folder icons in Color were ridiculous looking.

Top most must be interoperability. There's a lot of things that don't work in Color that you just have to live with, or ignore.

As to FCS 3 being Snow Leopard only? Why would anyone complain? Snow Leopard is 64bit and only costs $30 to upgrade. Why would you want to use FCS 3 on Leopard?

Al
 
i'll tell you when FCS3 will be released. it will come out sometime within two weeks after i finally decided to upgrade to FCS2. this is exactly what has happened to me with the last two upgrades -_-;

so when i scrape together the money to upgrade i'll let you all know =P
 
Its Trish said:
Final Cut Studio....

Final Cut Studio 3 has been released
( https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/751857/ )
and includes Final Cut Pro 7.


Final Cut Express....

I'm waiting for Final Cut Express 5
(FCE 4 due for a new version for like 2 years now!!!)
hopefully FCE 5 will be out within a month.

Also worth noting, FCE 4 now supports AVC HD.
( http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress )
This may be an indication FCE 5 is coming.
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Good looking out, but this is really old news. I've had FCS 3 on my computer for a few weeks now. Anyone who uses Final Cut knows about the release... well, except maybe you. ;)
 
THX1139 said:
Good looking out, but this is really old news. I've had FCS 3 on my computer for a few weeks now. Anyone who uses Final Cut knows about the release... well, except maybe you. ;)
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Hi THX1139,

Yes, it's true, I did not make that post
immediately after the software release.

But then again, I'm not a forum moderator
or gatekeeper or anything like that...
I'm just some average schmoe who noticed
that this thread needed to be updated
with some recent info, so I did it.

THX1139 said:
I've had FCS 3 on my computer for a few weeks now.
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Just curious, why didn't you update this thread
when you first found out about the release? ;)

trish : - )
 
Its Trish said:
Hi THX1139,

Yes, it's true, I did not make that post
immediately after the software release.

But then again, I'm not a forum moderator
or gatekeeper or anything like that...
I'm just some average schmoe who noticed
that this thread needed to be updated
with some recent info, so I did it.

Just curious, why didn't you update this thread
when you first found out about the release? ;)

trish : - )
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Trish, not meaning to be picky but he probably didn't update the thread due to it being in several other places on the site. I myself even had a thread on it!

After all the wait though I do wish it had more features!!!!
 
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