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New version of Final Cut Pro to be unveiled today

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Join the FCPUG Network, including BOSFCPUG, LAFCPUG, SF Cutters and other FCPUG and digital video user groups around the Globe in Las Vegas during NAB Show 2011 for the largest gathering of Final Cut Studio, Avid and Adobe editors, HDSLR filmmakers and digital content creators and Gurus on the Planet. Network, Party and Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of FCPUG SuperMeets in 2011!

When? - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 (Doors open 4:30PM for SuperMeet Digital Showcase featuring 35 vendors and PLENTY OF NETWORKING - SuperMeet stage show begins at 7pm)
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So in about 6 hours from posting this, we should see the next version of FCP. Or whatever they call it.

iFinal.
 
- New version will be called Final Cut X. Full rebuild from scratch. 64bit.
- Scales with core animation from a MacBook to Mac Pro.
- Dynamically handle massive quantities of media, resolution independent playback. full color managed based on ColorSync. Grand Central Dispatch, using all cores and background rendering
- Allows you to edit as you are importing, you don't have to wait to ingest.
- Background rendering is built in. No more "writing video" dialog box
- Content auto analysis, meaning it can auto detect most media and when it imports can auto image stabilize. On import it can: People Detection, Shot Detection, Auto Color Balance, Audio Cleanup
- Automatic audio clean up on the way. Options to rid hum, rumble, etc. on the way in. Range-based key wording. You can select ranges inside your clip and apply keywords to those ranges instead of just key wording the clip. No sub clipping necessary. Smart collections: Categorizes things like media types (audio, stills), how many people are in shots and how those shots are framed. Smart collections looks very iMovie-ish.
- Clip Connections: Audio and Video and be locked together and be one clip on a timeline (no longer a V1 and A1 A2 track). Can lock audio clips with specific video clip, so if moved on timeline they stay synched
- "Compound Clips": collapse chunks of media into a single clip on the timeline. How nesting always should have worked.
- Inline Precision Editor: click on an edit and it shows unused footage on both clips of the edit to help you trim
- the Auto Analyze will make Search Folders that know what has people in it, or Close Ups or Wide Shots.
- Tagging clips lets you tag only specific parts of the clip to tag with keyword or favorite
- Timeline Index: list of every clip on your timeline in order and lets you search by name or tag
- Automatically analysis audio and can sync audio with similar audio. Simple audio key framing, tweaking the audio is much easier. Trimming clips, the Magnetic Timeline makes complicated edits easier.
- Instant render in the background all the time, does not at all effect editing.
- Built in color matching. Match clip colors from two different cams very fast. That got BIG applause.
- Shipping in June on App Store. $299.
- No mention of Final Cut Studio (standalone product??).
 
WOW! I love the new layout and I am so glad there is background rendering! I don't have the budget to upgrade, though, so I'm stuck on Final Cut Super-Old-Version for likely the next few years...
 
I'll be pushing my boss for this in June. We're running v6 and held off getting v7 for a bit.

Then again, I'm due a new laptop too, so with a quad-core i7 Macbook Pro and FCPX... oh boy...

...it'll probably freeze on me... :D
 
I can't believe they slashed the price that much. I guess this whole App Store thing really could benefit the consumer. The lack of discs, packaging and shipping is the only reason I can imagine that they would be willing to take a $1000 product, re-engineer and redesign it, then sell it for $299.

Guess I'll finally be graduating to Pro. Sweet. :)
 
As a full time Video Editor I am both excited and apprehensive about FCPX. I love the new 64bit and that the new design. I currently run FCP server on a Macmini and I'm interested in seeing how this interacts with it. The new price point does give me pause, because now everyone can really afford it. Will this cause an influx of "editors" into the market? I saw something similar years ago with Microsoft Certified Engineers and schools churning out people getting certified.
 
I understand your concern Tom Hendricks, and I sympathize. However, I must say as an independent film producer, the price point makes me jump with joy. It's hard enough getting good actors in front of a reliable camera for as little money as possible. Anywhere we can save, we appreciate. So I want to kiss Apple for the price change!
 
T'Baio said:
I can't believe they slashed the price that much. I guess this whole App Store thing really could benefit the consumer. The lack of discs, packaging and shipping is the only reason I can imagine that they would be willing to take a $1000 product, re-engineer and redesign it, then sell it for $299.

Guess I'll finally be graduating to Pro. Sweet. :)
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Nope. It's 2 reasons:

1) It's much harder to 'share' now. Even with that long activation code it was pretty easy to let a couple of friends 'borrow' any Apple software.

App-store apps are, ironically, more secure even though they technically allow more Macs to use the software than the old way.

This is one real reason Aperture costs $80 now. They know they'll sell more than they did before.

2) They're not gonna do upgrade pricing anymore. Just like iLife has always been, everyone just pays the same price for every version. Thus, it's cheaper.


I'm in favor of both of these changes. They make things simpler to understand and should drastically cut down on the people I know who had everything, didn't pay for any of it, but didn't 'pirate' any of it since they just 'borrowed it from a friend.'

Those people were more annoying than actual pirates, and you were paying for them. If Apple's actually managed to give them the boot then the price-savings make sense.
 
T'Baio said:
I understand your concern Tom Hendricks, and I sympathize. However, I must say as an independent film producer, the price point makes me jump with joy. It's hard enough getting good actors in front of a reliable camera for as little money as possible. Anywhere we can save, we appreciate. So I want to kiss Apple for the price change!
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I do get where you are coming from, I too think this is a boon to independent film making. This will also make it a no brainer to upgrade as soon as it comes out. I often waited awhile to upgrade to see how things shake out.

I do wonder what Adobes rebuttal will be to this. I use both FCP and Premiere Pro to edit, plus After Effects, Photoshop and Encore. I know they introduced "rentals" with CS 5.5 but that's not this price point. Adobe will need to address this and soon.
 
I'm unclear. Is it just FCP or does it still have Motion, DVDSP, etc? If it's just FCP that's another explanation for the massive price drop.
 
Just FCPX, supposedly there is going to be a bundle or the other programs available to download at similar or lower prices from the Mac App store.
 
Guartho said:
I'm unclear. Is it just FCP or does it still have Motion, DVDSP, etc? If it's just FCP that's another explanation for the massive price drop.
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My understanding is that quite a bit of, if not all of, the functionality of Soundtrack and Color are integrated into FCPX. I think I've heard of some degree of Motion-style stuff in it, too, but not all of it. This is just the first preview, though, and the Apple representatives implied that the absence of Motion, Shake, and so (either as programs or as features absorbed into FCP) would be addressed at a later date. So, whatever happens to the rest of the Apple video suite has yet to be announced, beyond an extremely vague statement that something's is probably going to happen with it, and it's not just all being put on a bus.
 
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