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NAB Final Cut Supermeet Coverage

MCIowaRulz said:
My thoughts exactly!. As a owner of FCP 7 (and the rumord price drop for FCP X) How much will the upgrade cost? Price speculation time!
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Don't know what the price will be but I'm nearly positive there will be no 'upgrade' price.

Apple seems to be moving to the app-store model where you pay less at first but then you pay the same for every upgrade.

iLife has done this for years and now Aperture is doing the same thing. Frankly, I prefer it to the old way.
 
Jeez, I can't even get photography bay to load anymore and Rob Imbs' photos are getting 700 views in a matter of minutes. :eek:
 
Small White Car said:
Apple seems to be moving to the app-store model where you pay less at first but then you pay the same for every upgrade.

iLife has done this for years and now Aperture is doing the same thing. Frankly, I prefer it to the old way.
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On iOS you pay ONCE and then all upgrades are free.

Is this not the case on the Mac App Store? If I'm going to pay $80 for aperture there, I want to get Aperture 4, 5, 6 and 7 as a download and not be paying an upgrade fee each time.

I thought no upgrade fees was the new model (just pay once.)

Certainly for iOS apps that's the model.

Update: June on the AppStore. Sounding like it will ship with Lion.
 
Small White Car said:
Don't know what the price will be but I'm nearly positive there will be no 'upgrade' price.

Apple seems to be moving to the app-store model where you pay less at first but then you pay the same for every upgrade.

iLife has done this for years and now Aperture is doing the same thing. Frankly, I prefer it to the old way.
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I don't know... Licensing terms seem more reasonable on the app store.

I guess we'll just have to see (I'm hoping for upgrade price though, since I have FCP!)
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
No, but having features like face detection does suggest that it's a 'consumer' orientated product.

Personally, I don't mind. As long as all the old multitrack features are still available (and the price significantly drops, to say, $50-$300,) then I intend to buy it.
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Not necessarily. They added this to Aperture and at first I was skeptical but its actually very useful and lets me enter metadata easily and search easily. Its not perfect obviously but it takes a lot of extra work out.
 
ipedro said:
Who thinks that they'll eliminate Final Cut Express and lower the price of Final Cut Pro? iMovie seems to serve the "express crowd" while FCP would be within reach of the semi-pro demographic if the price were around $300.
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I could see that. iMovie seems to be rather advanced at this point. More than enough for the hobby, hone movie etc crowd. They could drop fce and sell just fp for like $200-250 and the full suite for like $600 and the suite with server for say $900-1000. And still make bank.
 
Well i'll tell you this FCP 5 (floating around in places i won't mention) is around 1.5 GB so If it is on the App store It will be 1 BIG download for me.
(3 Mbps cable line here)
 
econgeek said:
On iOS you pay ONCE and then all upgrades are free.
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Not true. If you buy a Mac-app or iOS app all the updates for that version are free. A new version is a whole new program that must be bought again on both platforms.

What confuses you is that most iOS developers have decided to just keep updating their first version forever and not come out with a whole new version because they've decided that makes more sense on a smart phone than it does on a desktop machine.

But that's a business decision, not a technical one. A developer could do it either way on either platform.
 
MCIowaRulz said:
Well i'll tell you this FCP 5 (floating around in places i won't mention) is around 1.5 GB so If it is on the App store It will be 1 BIG download for me.
(3 Mbps cable line here)
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The App Store should really harness the power of torrent technology for files like this.
 
i mostly just do smaller editing projects, and obviously information is somewhat limited at this point, but i really do like what i hear. sounds like hardware will be much better utilized to let you play with your footage without as many costly timeline renders. we'll see how the potential pans out, but i'm eager to give it a test drive!
 
Small White Car said:
Not true. If you buy a Mac-app or iOS app all the updates for that version are free. A new version is a whole new program that must be bought again on both platforms.

What confuses you is that most iOS developers have decided to just keep updating their first version forever and not come out with a whole new version because they've decided that makes more sense on a smart phone than it does on a desktop machine.

But that's a business decision, not a technical one. A developer could do it either way on either platform.
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Yes, that SKU will always be free for updates. They can create a separate SKU for a new major release and charge people again. Some did this when the iPad came out.

Apple is moving towards cheaper software, and has been from around 2000.

I think it would be pretty weird if each version of Final Cut was $299 now.
 
benjs said:
The App Store should really harness the power of torrent technology for files like this.
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People sometimes have trouble with torrenting depending on what their ISP situation is like. It would be a nice option though so long as apple provides us with at least one fast peer. It would take some of the load off their servers too.
 
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