Too funny!
> When copyright goes wrong
> “A quirk of the federal copyright law with regard to recordings means that nearly all music, spoken word, and other aural treats produced before the early 1970s are currently protected until the second half of the 21st century” – the sound of silence huh?
So funny & nails more than just FCP X… I read a bit of Ken Stones review of FCP X but had to stop when I read this new feature they’ve added cos it really sums it up even better than Hitler does: Sometimes when shooting on location you end up with audio that is not loud enough, has too much background noise, or has 60 cycle hum generated from improper grounding of your audio recording gear. By checking “Analyze and fix audio problems” FCP X will look for these common problems. Severe problems will actually be fixed during import, while problems that the algorithm determines will need human judgement and skill to fix, will be flagged.
OMFG – I would NOT want to be the dialogue editor inheriting the audio from a project where that had been applied. The only conclusion I can come to is that Jobs must have some AVID shares…. its not iMovie Pro, its just iMovie – he has willingly handed their pro market over to AVID.
> phwoaw….. 60 seconds online
I can only hope that the free market will do it’s good work and some third party will jump at the chance to replace FCP7. Maybe video editing IS due for a paradigm shift, I don’t doubt it, but this endless dumbing down from Apple is excruciating.
I’ve been a Mac fanboy most of my life. Yet if I check through the applications I use regularly these days, the only software made by Apple I do use is FCP. Gave up on them for pretty much everything else years ago.
The one thing with the current video editing paradigm is that it has gone through literally decades of evolution…. In the same way that ProTools is a logical extention of multitrack tape recording, FCP and AVID are logical evolutionary steps from first film editing & then non-linear video editing… So I doubt it will be replaced overnight… In a way its a bit like comparing ableton LIVE workflow vs ProTools, both are great for what they each can do, but ableton is not a serious proposition for post production work. Sadly it seems FCP X is the same, interesting & maybe unique for what it can do, but no one is going to be picture editing a feature film (or even TV) on it now….
I think Apple realised, just like with all their other products, that they can make a much larger bundle of cash by selling to the general public rather than to niche customers. Their servers went the way of the dodo, to be replaced by… a Mac mini with OS-X server? Wow… Talk about a pro piece of hardware.
I think that by selling a cheap FCP, they will have as much success (on a commercial level) as Adove selling Photoshop Elements for the occasionnal Photoshop dabbler. Not for pros, but “hey I heard the pros use this and wow it’s only 249$).
Seems to be the end of the FCP era.
I bought it the other day, it is just as everyone says…..imovie amped up a little.
It however is a cheap way into compressor and conversion facilities for HD video which is really what I bought it for………. but I notice that the previous version of Final Cut Studio seemed to be nowhere on the Apple Store site anymore!
I knew most of the things about the “dumbed-down” debate but the one thing that is not mentioned is the inability to open previous projects! That is the dumbest thing ever. Like Tim I need the ability to open previous projects. ProTools and most other DAW programs allow this.
It will be interesting to see what comes of the update process.
Ray