Final Cut Pro is alive and well

[Kwan Khan]

http://macsoda.com/2010/02/26/steve-jobs-final-cut-pro-is-alive-and-well/

AHH.... Full 64-bit app? Doubt
Will Blu-Ray capability on DVDSP soon?

[Noah Kadner]

Kinda vague but I remain ever hopeful...

Noah

[KETCH ROSSi]

Good because I chose to start learning Editing, and doing so with FCS3.

[Bruce Allen]

Of course it's alive and well! I'm sure it'll be a 64-bit app. Not so sure if it can do Blu-Ray because they want to lock you into iTunes. Hopeful though, as well. Likewise, for the beginnings of OpenCL support (I mean, why the heck else did Apple go and support all of that stuff if not to put it in FCP?).

If they fix the brightness / gamma weirdness, I might actually use it again. Until then, Avid is working fine for me. Looking forward to NAB - or just beforehand (when Apple usually announces their stuff, right?).

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Stephen Gentle]

Of course it's alive and well! I'm sure it'll be a 64-bit app.

Well they shipped the 64 bit version of Logic Pro in an update a few months ago, so the FCP team would have to be pretty slack if they can't manage it in a major release!

Hopefully they've stripped the Carbon parts away from it too - I think Logic still has a carbon UI though, so it must run the actual 64 bit audio engine and the plugins in a separate process. Final Cut may do that, but I'd much prefer to see a new UI.

[Jonathan Smiles]

The gamma issue pushed me to move from Apple to Adobe products.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

10 bit Rgb engine inside fcp would be cool, and getting rid of zhe qt enviroment so a rr accelerated RT editing experience can start!

on the other side: a rocketfuel with avid on the pc side is a great combo!
(hope rocketfuel can sometime in the future ingest DPX,Tiff and UC Qt
Files, pretty much what scratch prepost has done)

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

Not so sure if it can do Blu-Ray because they want to lock you into iTunes.

Apple is becoming the new Microsoft, and I hate it. (I really hope they will change policies before I am forced to jump ship to Adobe Premiere on a PC, which is getting more tempting day by day)

[Hrvoje Simic]

Less talk, more results, Steve.


Apple is becoming the new Microsoft, and I hate it. (I really hope they will change policies before I am forced to jump ship to Adobe Premiere on a PC, which is getting more tempting day by day)

What Eirik said.

[Kwan Khan]

Cs4 is getting real young by the day and final cut is dying a slow death. Hope they are ready to launch at NAB

[Brandon Kraemer]

CS4 totally failed me on a recent .R3D job... (in AE) so I don't feel tempted yet to jump to Adobe. Neither platform has their act totally together. 64 bit will be most welcome, in both worlds.

Aperture 3 (64 bit) shipped recently, so add that to the list of pro-apps getting the big fix.

I'd like to see a better speed ramp tool in FCP, and more avid-like bin sort and management controls, to name a few long needed features.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

If they fix the brightness / gamma weirdness, I might actually use it again.
Bruce Allen


Apple fix a gamma bug? They haven't fixed the windows QT gamma bug for the last 12 years. I wouldn't hold your breath.

[David Wyatt]

The gamma issue pushed me to move from Apple to Adobe products.

The gamma issue irks me too but I had a similar gamma issue with Premiere too (exporting H.264 files with Media Encoder)...so tiresome :bored:

[michael zaletel]

I think Steve Jobs took the time to personally say that cause he knows something we don't. Mainly that they are about to release the baddest Mac Pro ever and on the heels of that will be the reason you need to buy one... A new version of FCS that leverages all that power.

-michael zaletel

[mikeburton]

I can tell you this as a long time FCP and Avid user. I've seen the "New" Premiere and had a chance to drive it on a recent 3D job. Seeing will be believing. That's all I'll say for now.

[Stephen Gentle]

Apple fix a gamma bug? They haven't fixed the windows QT gamma bug for the last 12 years. I wouldn't hold your breath.

It's a lot more likely to get fixed now though - since Snow Leopard changed the default gamma correction setting to the same one Windows uses.

[Frank Weeks]

I can tell you this as a long time FCP and Avid user. I've seen the "New" Premiere and had a chance to drive it on a recent 3D job. Seeing will be believing. That's all I'll say for now.

Any idea then this will be released Mike?

[michael zaletel]

I can tell you this as a long time FCP and Avid user. I've seen the "New" Premiere and had a chance to drive it on a recent 3D job. Seeing will be believing. That's all I'll say for now.

Yeah, CS5 should be pretty amazing across the board.

-michael zaletel

[mikeburton]

Any idea then this will be released Mike?

My lips are sealed. Sorry for the tease, couldn't help myself.

[michael zaletel]

http://crenk.com/adobe-to-release-cs5-suite-on-april-10th-2010/

It has been reported that Adobe will be releasing CS5 suite on April 10, 2010. Adobe has been working very hard on the follow-up to CS4 and below I have attached a sneak preview which looks amazing.

http://cs5.org/?p=136#more-136

Based on Piper’s US distributor checks and NPD data the firm expects slight upside on revenue and EPS for Q2, with guidance for Q3 essentially in-line with consensus of 33c on $676.05M in revenue, assuming a Q3 seasonal quarter-over-quarter downtick. While still a few quarters out, Piper believes investors will start getting positioned for CS5 now, given the historical CS cycle peak multiple occurs 1-6 months prior to ship. Piper expects CS5 will ship in April 10.

-michael zaletel

[Frank Weeks]

My lips are sealed. Sorry for the tease, couldn't help myself.

I understand


It has been reported that Adobe will be releasing CS5 suite on April 10, 2010.

If this is right we should see it at NAB. That would be nice

[Ivan G]

So Adobe's release seems to be on the 10th and still no sight of FCP...

Alive and well meaning it's in a stabilized coma for now.

[Joe Carney]

I wonder if it will be as buggy as CS4 was initially?

[Imran Farouk]

FCP will probs come towards June time but with some extreme updates and a UI overhaul in terms of its looks...maybe...

I can't see them hitting NAB since they did say no more road shows and they did come early this year with iPad announcement in comparison to Mac World so maybe right before NAB?

or...they wait for CS5...see what it brings, prep FCS for June with even better goodies and full integration of R3D!!

Alas...all dreams and speculation...be a shame though to see them miss this year for a release.

[Andrew Kimery]

Steve has also said:
No one wants to watch videos on iPods
Flash media isn't a good choice for iPods
Apple's not working on a phone
Apple's not working on a Tablet
No one reads any more (oh, BTW have you seen our new tablet that would make an awesome eReader?)

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I wonder if it will be as buggy as CS4 was initially?

Anything GPU accelerated I always assume is going to be buggy.

I've never encountered an app which added GPU acceleration to something that didn't take a good 3 years to shake out all the driver glitches (if ever).

Hopefully CUDA/OpenCL will solve this.

[KETCH ROSSi]

It is interesting to see CS5 take over the Corel Draw style of painting, to bad I have already upgraded to Painter 11, but I guess I can always sale it if CS5 delivers on that, as I use it a lot on my Photos, and would love to stay more in one application.

New Warping loks great.

As I just also started studying FCP would not be funny to see FCP fail to stay up in the upgrades, and have to switch to Premiere, but I guess better switch in early.

Will see..