Apple to announce new Final Cut Pro on April 12

[refocusedmedia]

I posted this elsewhere, but this seems to be the thread for the FCPX discussion, so...

I agree that FCPX will now make it much easier for complete noobs to produce great-looking video that would've been much harder in the past. However, I disagree that there is all that much "advancement" in this new iteration. They took their iMovie platform and conformed it to Adobe CS5's innovative advancements... and then sprinkled in a few other things here and there that THEY determined would make OUR jobs easier, which is their reputation after all so I'm glad they're continuing to live up to it. Some looks like it might do just that, and some looks like it probably won't.

Either way it's a great price for a solitary NLE with full functionality, but it's still a disappointment coming from a non-FC user who would've considered switching if the software merited it. I'm sure the Apple lapdogs will eat it up as usual -- proclaiming the prettier version of mostly old innovation and things now considered standard (as Apple said themselves) as "revolutionary" or "amazing" -- which is their reputation. However I'm just as sure that now we will have an influx of "new" editors who will talk in a completely different editing language as ALL they will know about it will be FCPX\iMovie and it's shiny garden of automatic processing and pseudo-creative freedom.

Also, I see most people skipped right over the fact that this will require the latest and greatest hardware and OS. Slowly but surely those older Intel Macs will be just as useless (in Apple's eyes) as the Power Macs are. I hope you're all factoring in the cost of a new overpriced Apple machine with that $299 price in order to effectively take advantage of this "amazing" new product.

[Bob Sanders]

Also, I see most people skipped right over the fact that this will require the latest and greatest hardware and OS.

You find that a shocking surprise??
It's that way with EVERYTHING. You need more memory when going from win xp to win 7. You need to upgrade your old CRT tv when buying a blu ray player.... etc Upgrading hardware to run upgraded software is almost a given these days.

[HueyNRolf]

this will require the latest and greatest hardware and OS.

I was wondering about that. What are the requirements?

[cgbier]

No, it has a lot of cool stuff built in. However, I think that folks coming from iMovie 08 and up will have less problems to get used to the new layout than us old farts who will miss the viewer and a real timeline.

[cgbier]

Just watched the videos together with my old boss. He muttered something of "Media Composer" into his beer.

[Almohada]

Yeah, what's up with not having a viewer? I want to be able to view my clips, I don't want hover over them and what not or drop it in over another clip to audition a clip... I don't know guys, looks real funky to me, I wouldn't get used to it so quickly. If I never cut before and was given FCPX then I'd be able to learn every feature, but coming from an older version (which I prefer) I think I see myself pulling my hair out while using FCPX

[cgbier]

I have some money left in my budget that was meant to upgrade from Studio 2 to 3. If they sell X in a box, I might bite. Otherwise, FCS2 still does what I want (and need) it to do.
Lightroom will be ported to OS X in Q4....

[dop16mm]

I'm happy, Full pro editor at FCE price point, cool. I'm gunna need a new system on my next upgrade anyway so this works for me. I hope they still have a viewer option as well, because what about long takes that need to be chopped up before editing. Other than that it has everything that I need that I've never been able to figure out in the whole studio. I'm not a pro editor, I'm a filmmaker, and this should allow me to get to where I want to be easier.

I'm sure this will anger people that make their income in post and charging large sums because what they do is to hard for the average guy to understand. But Apple is addressing the guys on these boards that go from camera to film festival from their home system, no extra steps required. More and more pro work is done this way as well and time is of the essence.

[Bob Sanders]

Just watched the videos together with my old boss. He muttered something of "Media Composer" into his beer.

The grass is always greener.....

There are a lot of Media Composer users muttering "why can't we have that?????"

[cgbier]

Doesn't have to do with green grass. No Viewer and no Timeline is fine for folks coming from iMovie, but old guns have their habits they don't want to give up. And my former boss is fluent in FCP AND Avid.