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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 :)

Big FCP overhaul rumor... fingers crossed

I'm not sure how I feel about "Complete redesign of the user interface". Every time Apple's done that recently to other software it's gotten stupider. More "consumer friendly".

We'll see how it goes, though.
 
Heres hoping that they've added enough features and improvements to warrant a new version. 7 was a bit of a disappointment
 
I would be very happy to see a LOT of Motion integrated into FCP, but keep Motion as a stand alone application. Just give me a 3D camera in FCP and 64bit with better GPU optimization and I'll be a happy camper. Wait Cinema Tools integration is also a MUST. Multi-Room Color grading would be nice also. You know what... just take Smoke for Mac, give it a more "Apple" UI and sell it for $1500. :-)

I've been doing a lot of complex comps in Motion and I'm falling in love with this little compositor. It certainly isn't NUKE, but for quick comps and fluid motion graphics it shines. I hope it will stay as a stand alone app.

SoundTrack Pro (32bit) is next to useless with large arrangements and large multi-track projects synced to picture. I was trying to mix to picture a feature project (200 min) and it literally took 5 minutes to open the project, a single cpu core chugging along. I love the ADR multi-take options but they could be much improved.

I have to admit, if Color is fully integrated into FCP and Color the App disappears, I would not miss it at all...

My .02 cents...
 
With you 100% Mathieu, Logic has reached an awesome plateau under Apple. Lets hope they still have some of that magic dust for FCP.
 
I'm totally in line. "New interface" scares me a little bit as a guy who doesn't want to learn a new interface. However, Logic was redesigned very nicely. Definitely a make or break moment for Final Cut though. If it is too alien or doesn't win over early adopters, I could see Premiere finally having a shot. But, I actually have faith. They've worked on it a long time and don't seem in a rush to get it out until it's ready.
 
hoping for 10 bit rgb engine,
proper omf export,
datamanagement improvement,
rocket accelareted playback would be huge, but not a neccesitty.
conforming abilities (loading redcine x xml's would be enough) and dpx support
 
I've been seeing a lot of folks jump ship in the past 6 months. I on the other hand don't feel as I'm ready but this is the last straw. As much as I love to film, editing is up there as well.

Apple's Motion is a joke atleast when it was first released and that's comparing to After Effects. Everything in FCS is out dated. No Blu-Ray because Apple is trying to defeat piracy? Blow me! PC will always be leading the industry for piracy. I guess it's still early so I'll keep FCS in my prayers.
 
This sounds right - looking at the release history, early this year was about the time I was expecting a new FCS release.

I guess a lot of people lost faith a bit because the last release wasn't that big compared to previous releases, so they expected an earlier update...

Mathieu Ghekiere said:
They did a lot good with the redesign of Logic when they took over.
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Totally true - I think we have nothing to worry about.

Interestingly enough, they randomly released 64 bit support in a point release update. I guess there's a lot more legacy code to port in Final Cut for them to have done that already though.

Ivan G said:
No Blu-Ray because Apple is trying to defeat piracy? Blow me! PC will always be leading the industry for piracy. I guess it's still early so I'll keep FCS in my prayers.
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Where do you get that idea...? I think the biggest reason that they don't support Blu-Ray is because optical media is getting to be a bit of a dead end.

I'm hoping that in a few years, most movies will be available as a 4K RED RAY download...
 
I think it will be for post what RED has been for digital cinema.
 
Rumor has it also that the same major upgrade talk has been sold for years now, making new "major overhaul" talk look like fluff, which although inducing yawning does show some positive effects on gastrointestinal balance.
 
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