Apple doesn't do FCP announcements at MWSF. And certainly not at the Super Meet. Wait for NAB.
That's about right. I wouldn't expect anything more than a minor update this year, maybe support AVCHD, maybe improve HD movie disc authoring a little bit. Their pattern is to alternate between minor updates and major release each year. This year, minor update, next, major release.
The Supermeet schedule showed a talk about FCP and the new Eight-cores, nothing earth shaking but probably interesting to those that use the software.
The guy that runs the SuperMeet is co-host of this podcast:
It has to be related to the Shake successor. Final Cut Studio 2 is fairly recent. My guess is that Apple will take the components of Shake that make it one of the best effects packages out there and change it from being a specialist app into a component that integrates with Final Cut studio much more easily. And it will kick Adobe's ass. Premiere with AE will be nothing compared to Phenomenon, Final Cut and well Motion I guess.
Right now Shake is still fairly separate. When you use it, it's as if they took the original Nothing Real package and added Quicktime to it and cleaned up a few bugs then stuck an Apple sticker on it. It is far from an Apple application - it doesn't even use a Mac native file browser.
In many ways I like that it's not a true Apple product because it's powerful in a way that Apple don't usually support. I just hope they don't ruin it - a lot of people are worried they will and dumb it down. If they treat it like OS X which still ended up as a powerful unix system despite being easy to use, it should be ok. I have my cautious underpants on though. I saw the first incarnation of Motion and I wasn't impressed.
Motion has improved but it's taken a while and Shake users have already been waiting for 2 years I think for an update. This state of continually waiting for Apple to get their finger out and deliver some useful products doesn't make them look good as a company among professionals. Consumers are fine, they get catered for all the time but serious high end users just get put to the back and it makes Apple look like a toy company.
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Anyone heard anything regarding the FCP announcement after the FCP user's group meeting?
Thanks for info!
Wednesday, January, 16, 2008 from
5:000PM - 10:00PM at the Mission Bay Conference Center -
UCSF,
So we'll know later today or tomorrow depending on your time zone.
Apple doesn't do FCP announcements at MWSF. And certainly not at the Super Meet. Wait for NAB.
That's about right. I wouldn't expect anything more than a minor update this year, maybe support AVCHD, maybe improve HD movie disc authoring a little bit. Their pattern is to alternate between minor updates and major release each year. This year, minor update, next, major release.
The Supermeet schedule showed a talk about FCP and the new Eight-cores, nothing earth shaking but probably interesting to those that use the software.
The guy that runs the SuperMeet is co-host of this podcast:
http://digitalproductionbuzz.com/
They'll probably discuss it in tonight's edition, I'll listen to it tomorrow.
Right now Shake is still fairly separate. When you use it, it's as if they took the original Nothing Real package and added Quicktime to it and cleaned up a few bugs then stuck an Apple sticker on it. It is far from an Apple application - it doesn't even use a Mac native file browser.
In many ways I like that it's not a true Apple product because it's powerful in a way that Apple don't usually support. I just hope they don't ruin it - a lot of people are worried they will and dumb it down. If they treat it like OS X which still ended up as a powerful unix system despite being easy to use, it should be ok. I have my cautious underpants on though. I saw the first incarnation of Motion and I wasn't impressed.
Motion has improved but it's taken a while and Shake users have already been waiting for 2 years I think for an update. This state of continually waiting for Apple to get their finger out and deliver some useful products doesn't make them look good as a company among professionals. Consumers are fine, they get catered for all the time but serious high end users just get put to the back and it makes Apple look like a toy company.