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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

NEW FCP is 4k and only $299

Craig W. Bickerstaff said:
Does anyone actually know for sure that the viewer is axed? Or is everyone just wildly jumping to conclusions because they can't see it in the blurry photograph.
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May be part of the program they didn't show. Most pro applications do allow for some level of customization in the UI, hopefully it's something as simple as checking "viewer" in the window menu...
 
Louis Maddalena said:
I haven't really seen enough to truly know how I feel about it, but I'm definitely not happy with the fact that the viewer is gone.
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The question is what have they decided to replace its functionality with.

Maybe there is an upcoming interface more like Quantel, Smoke or maybe there is something new.

Look ... there are a lot of people complaining about the iMovie like appearance and functionality. Well I tried iMovie recently, its pretty cool and a lot of fun to use. Of course its limiting in terms of what you can do ... but its cool - even fun to use, so long as what you want to do fits in its limitations.

I don't think that suddenly Final Cut Pro is suddenly going to have all the inane limitations of iMovie - in fact Apple sort of demonstrated that they had the toolset that covers a lot of what editors do.
 
Jake Bastian said:
May be part of the program they didn't show. Most pro applications do allow for some level of customization in the UI, hopefully it's something as simple as checking "viewer" in the window menu...
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Just as "Window Layouts" in FCP7.
 
Has potential... I'm just hoping that it does floating-point bit depth for colour grading. The "One-click-shot-to-shot balancing" seems like it could be amazing; hopefully you can just select two matching colours (say, the same shirt) from shot to shot and then it balances the entire thing.
 
andrewhake said:
PLEASE! Tell me more! How does FCPX make you feeeeeeel? It seems like the UI is making you angry, are you currently prescribed anything to help control this anger? . .

If your business depends on how successful the next FCP release will be. . .

A word of advice. Chill the FUCK out.
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Hahahaha ahhh!!!
Thanks Andrew; )
You made my night ;p
 
FCP X sounds very promising.
Great advanced features, speed and metadata support.
I'll wait for my judgement after I work with it.
I hope they release more info on the rest of the studio soon.
The lack of it is driving some ppl nuts...
 
I love that yesterday everyone was bagging FCP because it wasn' t as fast, today they're bagging it because the interface that none of them have tried sucks. So the more complex looking interface is the better app? Let's wait till there's more details eh? At least they've done something!
 
Kevin Wild said:
Funny you say that, Jake. I work every day, LONG days, on both FCP (for corporate & spot work we do) and AVID (for TCL shows I edit). I never have a problem with interface looks. Honestly, maybe it's just me, but I could care less! To me, it's all about workflow, features, speed and stability.
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Totally agree. While I'd like it if they'd not use corners quite so rounded on the clips in the timeline, it really doesn't matter. It's insane that people think that if the interface doesn't look a certain way, then it must be crap. That's absolute rubbish - making judgements on how an interface is going to be to use and what kind of features FCP will have based on some blurry pictures of a beta product is stupid.

Based on what people who actually went to the presentation and actually saw the demo, I think that people will be surprised when we see what the app is really capable of...
 
seems cool to me, some fresh air in a stale system. Lets hope for a DVD Studio X with better menu building.
 
right well, guess I jumped the gun on my assumption so yes I'm an idiot,the breadcrumbs lead the wrong way and I take it their splitting the app so that you do it a la carte style, http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/04/12/apple-says-stay-tuned-for-other-final-cut-studio-apps
they managed to get the rez versions of the FCP X too so its worth a look if you already haven't seen it,

I think everyone is happy with the new features, I definitely am, I'd have loved it with the old interface look just simply because I loved the general vibe the application gave visually, given after watching the video, I'm slowly starting to enjoy the way it's working together with the features, that magnetic timeline feature is so helpful, number of times my timelines screwed up and repairing its taken time...now that seems like a thing of the past!
Agreed though that judgements can't be made on something that isn't on hand so all real judgement reserved till its in hand,
 
My take is that Apple took a huge gamble here on Randy Ubilos' vision of the future in the same ways they've taken huge gambles on Jonathan Ive's vision of the future. Time will tell if that gamble pays off. Personally, I liked iMovie HD much better than iMovie 8.

EDIT: After watching the demo on Vimeo, FCP X is no iMovie 8. The UI for FCP X just looks simple but is incredibly powerful with the magnetic timeline and conditional tracks.

Yesterday, I tried to edit a movie in iMovie on my iPhone and just couldn't deal with the UI. I quickly went back to ReelDirector which is much more intuitive.

EDIT: I still think iMovie for Mac, iPhone and iPad misses the mark but I think FCP X may hit the nail on the head.

In Mr. Ubilos' defense, he is the guy who led the first team that created Premiere, then left Adobe and led the team who created what is now Final Cut Pro.

Personally, I don't think the new Final Cut Pro X UI will catch on. Randy Ubilos must think it is a superior workflow but just because a UI is better, doesn't mean it will ever become the standard. They really should have created two UI options in preferences and let users decide. I also suspect they may have inadvertently and irreversibly undermined the "brand value" of FCP to professionals by pricing it too low.

EDIT: Perhaps the new FCP X UI will catch on. Now that I've watched it in motion instead of just reading third party accounts and screenshots, it is pretty cool.

-michael zaletel
 
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