Ummm, nope. Still working here. Don't know what's going on then, but it's definitely still working.
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Mac OS X 10.6.8 Release Imminent?
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Ummm, nope. Still working here. Don't know what's going on then, but it's definitely still working.
Will you stop calling it 'company's professional-level video production software ' its Final Cut pro X is just a pimped iMovie with none of the features that the pro users needs -
No EDL support
No OMF support
No XML supporr
What is the point of this software it is no use to any film professional!
Apple has just given the advantage to Premiere Pro!
What a total waste of everyones time!
No EDL support
No OMF support
No XML supporr
What is the point of this software it is no use to any film professional!
Apple has just given the advantage to Premiere Pro!
What a total waste of everyones time!
I thinks some logic could be used here. Those features may not be useful for you? but I know there are plenty of film professionals that really are benefiting from the professional-grade stability, power, features (besides whatever you're talking about), and what I'd assume the sheer amount of sound samples and that's just the tip of the ice-berg.
Again, this is what I'm presuming since I've talked to film professionals and they were always talking about Apple's Pro-Grade software suite.
Maybe it could use those 3 features, but I think there's a reason FC is still widely used.
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Forget the 10.6.xx updates. Bring on Lion already!
Forget the 10.6.xx updates. Bring on Lion already!
FCP 7 is widely used because it has deck support, supports EDL's OMF's XML.
The bad:
You can import from iMovie, but not FCP7 (You are prompted to import from iMovie when you first fire it up).
There doesn't appear to be a PDF manual (just a help file)
It appears to do a lot of stuff in the background automatically. I swear I saw the colours on a clip change without me doing anything (there is a background tasks panel that shows what's going on but I didn't keep it open).
There are "presets" in the colour tool like "moonlight" and "sewer". There's also the famed "magic auto color balance" (so I guess that's all you colourists out of a job then).
Most of the icons are different from FCP7, as are the menus. So a bit of a learning curve there.
There is no support for decks. At. All. You can import HDV/DV/etc. but apparently not any grown-up tape formats.
The good:
It seems very fast.
So as I said what is the point, why did they not call it iMovie Pro. Rather than kill a great editing system!
RIP FCP!!!
I just hope that this update ends my constant beach balls, im tired of my computer freezing so frequently now after 10.6.7, it sometimes feels like im using windows again with all the constant freezes and force quitting and all of that i have to go through. My computer is not that old its a MBP from 09' and has sufficent memory.
Hooray!
Make 10.6.8 a good release, Apple. Even if it takes a bit of extra time. I see myself staying with SL for a while, and it works pretty darn good right now, for me anyway.
Morod
Make 10.6.8 a good release, Apple. Even if it takes a bit of extra time. I see myself staying with SL for a while, and it works pretty darn good right now, for me anyway.
Morod
WHAT??? It was supposed to FIX the SATAIII issues. I'm having enough trouble with my SATA III SSD on 10.6.7. Some guys claimed the problems went away with 10.6.8. This is not good at all.
Are you the one who wrote this review?
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Apple has changed directions on FCP, its not for the "film professional" anymore. Corporate training depts, schools, Video Editors, small businesses will love it, and the base will grow much larger than the niche of " Film Pros"
Change happens. So its not a waste of time.
Maybe one of the lessons of the whole Final Cut X/Mac App Store/Lion/iPad thing is going to be that the wisdom of throwing away one of the old ways of doing business isn't so wise after all.
It may just be that the computer business works best when one set of companies (Intel/nVidia/ATI/Western Digital/etc) makes the hardware, another company (Apple, MS) writes the operating system plus its supporting applications and a third party (Adobe/Intuit) writes the applications where the work is performed. An open system where everybody works pretty hard to make their products work with everybody elses stuff seems to have its benifits for the end users.
It may just be that the computer business works best when one set of companies (Intel/nVidia/ATI/Western Digital/etc) makes the hardware, another company (Apple, MS) writes the operating system plus its supporting applications and a third party (Adobe/Intuit) writes the applications where the work is performed. An open system where everybody works pretty hard to make their products work with everybody elses stuff seems to have its benifits for the end users.
I'd ask this on the Lion thread but it is filed with concern trolls spreading misinformation. it is just as good here though.
What I'm curious about is upgrading from SL to Lion.
Apple's web site states that 10.6 is required for the App Store. But what about Lion? What I'm getting at is that if the rumor about installing SL first in order to install Lion is true, do you need anymore than 10.6.0? Would you even need to install SL updates?
I'm thinking you could just install 10.6, download the App Store and then Lion. You could skip the SL upgrades to 10.6.8. Does this sound right to any beta testers out there?
After updating to Lion most of the same security updates would be available. Or perhaps when this is done, all updates to Lion including security updates would be bundled in it?
What I'm curious about is upgrading from SL to Lion.
Apple's web site states that 10.6 is required for the App Store. But what about Lion? What I'm getting at is that if the rumor about installing SL first in order to install Lion is true, do you need anymore than 10.6.0? Would you even need to install SL updates?
I'm thinking you could just install 10.6, download the App Store and then Lion. You could skip the SL upgrades to 10.6.8. Does this sound right to any beta testers out there?
After updating to Lion most of the same security updates would be available. Or perhaps when this is done, all updates to Lion including security updates would be bundled in it?
Yes and sometime not for the better! All this is doing is allowing is bad habits and poor discipline. We waste so much time having to fix stuff by people who think they know what they are doing and so uneducated in work flow not see the errors of there ways! Then think it is our problem !
From playing with it for a few hours Apple just wants to make magic button film making. You have no real artistic control over what its doing. This to film making what the micro wave is to cooking. Has its place just dont say it is for professionals.
Just cos you can buy a guitar does not mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix. But its nice if you can at least tune you own strings!
Smart move. I love some of the new functionality of Lion, but I am finding it very unstable and buggy. Can't believe they're less than 40 days from releasing this. I hope that they have teams and teams of engineers rooting out all of the bugs. Including the new ones that the update to Dev 4 brought on.
Yeah but it only had 17 months. Tiger had 2 1/2 years and a whole architecture transition and only got 2 updates further!
I hope it's adding OpenCL capability to older Macs. I have a 4-year-old iMac that works just fine but can't use FCP X because the video card isn't OpenCL capable. I know this issue was originally mentioned back in '09, but it'd be nice if they did something about it. I'm not willing to spend $300 Plus another $2000 or so for new hardware just to use it.