FinalCutStudio2

[Matt Gottshalk]

I was hoping the color corrector was integrated within FCS2. A Camera shake plugin? I used istablize for over 2 years now, where was Apple back then? Still same old interface. Now that shake is gone where's the high end compositor? Motion.....? Ya right!!!! DVDSP was untouched, besides a few presets added. I guess the only reason for NAB is the RED for me and few other companies. WTF is Apple focusing on? Ipods and phones. This FCS is no match for AVID. And is Final Touch Apple's new "COLOR"???????

Sorry, I had to LAUGH at that one.

I've been on Avid since 1991, and FCS2 is SO far ahead of Avid, that I doubt Avid will recover.

 

[Anders Holck]

I just watched the Coen brothers video too, and that was very inspiring.

But it was pretty obvious that they had no use for such a product other than to screw around. Now a similar video with Roger Deakins fooling around with the red guys, that would be priceless

 

[Ben Feuer]

Riight

Riight

FCSII is no match for Avid. Let me just whip out my 20,000 checkbook for an Adrenaline system that'll be outdated in a year...I LOVE proprietary hardware systems.

Apple gives you $25k of software essentially for free, and nobody's even mentioned Final Cut Server yet - not the sexiest addition, but a vitally important one given Media Manager's shortcomings. 1k takes care of THAT little problem.

Fancy new codec, new IO box in full HD, testimonials from Fincher and the Coens...enough of a show for me, anyhow.

 

[Poi Boy]

put the final nail in the avid coffin.
-A

 

[Simon Blackledge]

put the final nail in the avid coffin.
-A

nice

 

[Vincent Rice]

I was hoping the color corrector was integrated within FCS2. A Camera shake plugin? I used istablize for over 2 years now, where was Apple back then? Still same old interface. Now that shake is gone where's the high end compositor? Motion.....? Ya right!!!! DVDSP was untouched, besides a few presets added. I guess the only reason for NAB is the RED for me and few other companies. WTF is Apple focusing on? Ipods and phones. This FCS is no match for AVID. And is Final Touch Apple's new "COLOR"???????

Please; stop with the jokes, you're killing me :w00t:

 

[Charles Papert]

Now a similar video with Roger Deakins fooling around with the red guys, that would be priceless

Funny you should say that...I had lunch with Roger in January while working for him on a movie and told him all about RED (he was certainly interested, but obviously still a "film guy")!

 

[Joe Carney]

FC server is big news to me. Have to wait for reviews though.
Avid and Sony are coming out with expensive DCM options. Wonder how they will justify their prices?

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Not that it's important, but I love some of the music choices for the movies on Apple's site.
Notice the nice remix of Tosca's "Busenfreund" on the Final Cut Server video.....cool, Apple, really cool...

 

[Ivan G]

FCS2 wasn't what I expected besides 4k. I shouldn't have compared the 2.

 

[PaulClements]

Damn Jeff... 1000+ posts... you really are a forum ho!

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Yeah Jeff,
congrats on 1k post, man!!!

 

[Petr Dvorak]

put the final nail in the avid coffin.
-A

One nail for Sony, one for Avid - just wonder how many nails do we need for next few days? :biggrin:

 

[Don Woods]

A Tease

A Tease

Sorry Guys it was way to much fun to go to the event and see it live. Here is just a tease. I could not take very many interesting pics but will take allot more tomorrow at the show..

Wish all you guys could have been there or at NAB it is an amazing year

ps. Sorry for the RED logo pic its crap happend so fast...

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Nice touch

Nice touch

Is this upgrade everything we could have ever hoped for - of course not. It does have some very nice features - I am particularly happy to see the new Final Touch based color corrector with what sounds like easy integration with FCP, the inclusion of native RedCode support and the promise of a codec (ProRes 422) that just might have the right combination of quality, bit rate and wide acceptance - well I can hope can't I.

I am not miffed that 4k isn't fully supported at this point - patience grasshopper. We still have the advantage of oversampling and you can still pursue alternative post paths if you really have to have 4k deliverables this year. In the meantime I am just going to archive the 4k masters and celebrate an affordable, integrated 2k pipeline courtesy of mr. jobs.

Now, if they can actually ship it in May with minimal bugs they'll get my love.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

AV I know Color comes with FCS2. I was hoping it would be a plugin rather that having to export or send to.

Ah, gotcha.... Yeah, that would be nice to have it all integrated. OTOH having it separate may still give us some flexibility to use it with Shake or other apps too without bringing everything into FCP. I guess we'll learn more soon.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Damn Jeff... 1000+ posts... you really are a forum ho!

Holy shit. hmy: :blink:

I knew I was at about 950 the other day, but I hadn't paid attention to that. I've never done this on any forum before, ever. It took me 2 years to break 500 posts over at DVINFO and I thought I posted a lot there. Hehe.

What can I say, RED is like crack for me.

 

[shaftbond]

the thing that got me was when the announced RED at the Apple Event, there were a lot of people cheering. More than I expected. Which meant a few things:
1) most of the people in the audience knew what RED was
2) they were excited for it. (which is a different feel than i sometimes get from other forums)

i loved the presentation. cool new tools and Color looks like a lot of fun!

 

[Steve Gibby]

What can I say, RED is like crack for me.

Panama Red may be badass...but Lake Forrest RED rules!

 

[Paul Leeming]

Funny, later in the movie the REDCODE codec is gone........

I could be wrong here Anders, but the REDCODE option was probably part of the ingest formats supported by FCP, whereas that image is the output codecs available, which would not include REDCODE as it is a camera specific format only.

Although I've used FCP at film school I use Premiere Pro at home, so here's hoping it too announces REDCODE support from the next version onwards.