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New Final Cut Pro Described as 'Dramatic and Ambitious' - Due in Spring 2011

Ruh Roh

I don't like the sound of 'ambitious' at all. I don't need my editing software to be pretty. I need to to be simple and work well. 'Ambitious' sounds like the want to redefine editing software.

This has me very nervous. I can't stand iMovie. Please tell me it's not headed in that direction.
 
David29 said:
"Randy Ubillos, the developer behind the completely redesigned iMovie in 2008"

That should read "the guy that ruined iMovie"

Lets hope this idiot does not butcher FCP as well.

Here's some pics of this douchebag .... Link
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Avid, Adobe Premiere, and FCP are considered the big three when it comes to editing software. Randy Ubillos has headed up two of those three NLE's (Premiere and FCP). If that makes him a douche bag then I think everyone needs to aspire to be a douche bag.


Lethal
 
danielespejo said:
When I first learned to use Final Cut it took me about 2 hours to figure out the UI, and the only vid editing I had done prior to that was imovie and win movie maker. I'm guessing a few days of training/practice will bring most professionals up to speed.
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not only that but most production companies, in fact most companies never jump to install the newest software, I can't even begin to count how many major worldwide corporations still use XP as their base OS.
 
Randy created Final Cut Pro

David29 said:
"Randy Ubillos, the developer behind the completely redesigned iMovie in 2008"

That should read "the guy that ruined iMovie"

Lets hope this idiot does not butcher FCP as well.

Here's some pics of this douchebag .... Link
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Say hello to the father of FCP--Who is the "douchebag"?
 
Spidermanjohn said:
Say hello to the father of FCP--Who is the "douchebag"?
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The point is that he changed the operating paradigm of how the user interacts with the program.

What if he decides that he needs to do the same sort of thing to FCP? What if this guy arrogantly decides that he is going to re-write the way in which users interact with non-linear editors, because he "knows better"?

Could you imagine what would happen if someone made changes to FCP on the order of what changed between iMovie 6 and iMovie 08?

How would pro editors like that?
 
PBF said:
Or terrific?
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Well, we'll see.

I knew iMovie HD inside and out, and was regularly turning to it for quick projects. I still can't stand the new iMovie. I get what they were trying to do and I see how it's "improved" in certain ways but I still cannot stand the interface. I keep thinking "I should be able to do this" and it doesn't let me do what I think it should, based on my pre-existing knowledge of how an NLE "should" work.

As long as it's intuitive and people aren't constantly saying "why won't it let me ____? This is how it's done everywhere else!"...
 
ppc_michael said:
Aw man. I'm really worried about this. I hope they don't touch Color!
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Really?? Have you used Color? No multi-format projects? Only 3D vectorscopes for machines with ATI graphics cards? Still not perfect round tripping with Final Cut? Need me to go on? Color 2.0 better be coming out along with FCP 8 that takes advantage of more than two cores as default. I shouldn't need to set up a quick cluster on my new Mac Pro (that reminds me I still need to do that) in order to have Compressor utilize all four of my cores. DVDSP won't be touched, AGAIN, I'm willing to bet. There's some things that Apple will just never change their mind on (Flash on iOS and Blu-ray support), so forget DVDSP5 for true Blu-ray discs and menus. Motion, sure. Maybe true 3D like Cinema4D and not just 2.5D?

Any other ideas from the other of us pros out there?

-Brian
 
To all those hoping for 64 bit.... I doubt it, at least in Snow Leopard, at least not in any meaningful sense.

The only QuickTime API that can be compiled in 64-bit is QTKit, and that API is beyond pitiful in Snow Leopard. You cannot do any editing other than the most absolute extreme operations(cutting/copying/pasting that kind of thing). And even then most of the actual work is handled in a separate 32 bit process.

I would be absolutely shocked if Apple released a 64-bit Snow Leopard compatible FCP. Now Apple could very well release 10.6.8 or whatever that includes a revamped API, but although they have done that in the past it's pretty rare. Usually the only time you see major API changes is with a new version of the OS.

Now Lion is another story, I would hope Apple has been hard at work improving the API for Lion(though it really hasn't improved a whole lot since it first debuted in Tiger....) If they upgrade the API to have the same capabilities that the current Quicktime API has, then there is no reason they couldn't create a 64-bit FCP.
 
matteusclement said:
FCP for ipad. Boo YAH!
j/k
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Actually Logic has support for external control surfaces and I want to say the iPad can be used as one. I'd love to see the option of using an iPad as a BT control surface for FCP. Imagine the 3-Way Color Corrector, or even the whole Effects pane on an iPad. That'd be sweet. Add on a simplified Timeline when the 'pad is in landscape mode and possibly your tools palette or some other user-configurable window, and that sounds pretty awesome to me.

Now to get an iPad...

-Brian
 
brianbobcat said:
Actually Logic has support for external control surfaces and I want to say the iPad can be used as one. I'd love to see the option of using an iPad as a BT control surface for FCP. Imagine the 3-Way Color Corrector, or even the whole Effects pane on an iPad. That'd be sweet. Add on a simplified Timeline when the 'pad is in landscape mode and possibly your tools palette or some other user-configurable window, and that sounds pretty awesome to me.

Now to get an iPad...

-Brian
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I sometimes use my iPad to control Logic. It requires some MIDI over WiFi trickery, but it works really well.
 
Sigh, I seriously hope the head guy who worked on the new dumbed down iMovie won't work his "magic" on this...
 
Lol Douchbag the father of Premiere and Final Cut and iMovie 08 lol
What are you the creator of Avid?


David29 said:
"Randy Ubillos, the developer behind the completely redesigned iMovie in 2008"

That should read "the guy that ruined iMovie"

Lets hope this idiot does not butcher FCP as well.

Here's some pics of this douchebag .... Link
Click to expand...
 
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ah this is good news, me being a second year college student studying Media I kinda need this update, I'm plodding along okay using Final Cut Studio 3 & FCE 4.0, but my lecturers are constantly telling me I need to use Premier CS5, I dislike it so much that I bring in my own MBP rather than using the colleges iMacs which just have CS5 installed, don't get me wrong premier is good and its surpassed final cut studio since there hasn't been any major updates for quite a while that was bound to happen, but I cant turn out the light on Final Cut, I love it too much

So excited:D
 
emphasis on pro.
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I was smiling when I had read that. Let's hope Apple really does get "Back to the Mac", and not in the way that they had meant it in their keynote.
 
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