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Final Cut Pro update will be the “biggest overhaul” since the original

8 points by anderzole 16y ago

stop 16y ago
There's been a hell of a lot of updates of FCP the last few years. I'm not sure how much is relevant innovation and how much is simply a strategy for dealing with piracy.
wazoox 16y ago
FinalCut Pro is probably one of the very last big Carbon app, and as such is still stuck in 32 bits land. Particularly unfortunate for a video app.
- redial 16y ago
  I really hope they make it cocoa/64 bits. Also it would be nice if it were available on the app store, next to FC Express.
  - lurch_mojoff 16y ago
    Considering it had been in development for at least, what, two years, there is very little chance, and absolutely no excuse, for this next version of FCP to not be Cocoa. And if it is Cocoa it certainly is going to be 64 bit.
mathnode 16y ago
Premiere boasts 64bit and GPU acceleration. Legacy GUI issues aside on Final Cuts behalf, the fact is premiere is fast. And now with Smoke on Mac for the more serious editors (looking to invest in extra hardware required for realtime 1080p/2k/4k/... editing), Apple have a lot to catch up on. Digital Domain and The Foundry saw Apple Shake into a shallow grave and nailed every nail into the coffin with Nuke. Shake and Final Cut were purchased by Apple to bolster macs in the media market. It's disgraceful shame they let Shake die.
vilya 16y ago
Hopefully this means they'll finally release a 64-bit version of QuickTime too!
- zdw 16y ago
  As of 10.6, QuicktimeX is Cocoa/64-bit
  - vilya 16y ago
    Sorry, I meant the Quicktime library. QuicktimeX uses QtKit which is 64-bit, but QtKit still calls out to Quicktime 7 for a lot of tasks; and Quicktime 7, as far as I know, still has no 64-bit version. There's an Ars Technica page with some good information about this: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.a... There's also no 64-bit Quicktime for Windows (again, AFAIK - I'd love to be wrong about this!).
zdw 16y ago
Current versions of FCP are still stuck using OS X 10.4 ways of doing things. There have been huge changes in OS X since then, with a remake of Quicktime in Cocoa and all the new HPC tools like GCD and OpenCL... Apple has plenty of opportunities to make progress.

8 points by anderzole 16y ago

stop 16y ago

There's been a hell of a lot of updates of FCP the last few years. I'm not sure how much is relevant innovation and how much is simply a strategy for dealing with piracy.

wazoox 16y ago

FinalCut Pro is probably one of the very last big Carbon app, and as such is still stuck in 32 bits land. Particularly unfortunate for a video app.

redial 16y ago
I really hope they make it cocoa/64 bits. Also it would be nice if it were available on the app store, next to FC Express.
- lurch_mojoff 16y ago
  Considering it had been in development for at least, what, two years, there is very little chance, and absolutely no excuse, for this next version of FCP to not be Cocoa. And if it is Cocoa it certainly is going to be 64 bit.

mathnode 16y ago

Premiere boasts 64bit and GPU acceleration. Legacy GUI issues aside on Final Cuts behalf, the fact is premiere is fast. And now with Smoke on Mac for the more serious editors (looking to invest in extra hardware required for realtime 1080p/2k/4k/... editing), Apple have a lot to catch up on. Digital Domain and The Foundry saw Apple Shake into a shallow grave and nailed every nail into the coffin with Nuke. Shake and Final Cut were purchased by Apple to bolster macs in the media market. It's disgraceful shame they let Shake die.

vilya 16y ago

Hopefully this means they'll finally release a 64-bit version of QuickTime too!

zdw 16y ago
As of 10.6, QuicktimeX is Cocoa/64-bit
- vilya 16y ago
  Sorry, I meant the Quicktime library. QuicktimeX uses QtKit which is 64-bit, but QtKit still calls out to Quicktime 7 for a lot of tasks; and Quicktime 7, as far as I know, still has no 64-bit version. There's an Ars Technica page with some good information about this: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.a... There's also no 64-bit Quicktime for Windows (again, AFAIK - I'd love to be wrong about this!).

zdw 16y ago

Current versions of FCP are still stuck using OS X 10.4 ways of doing things. There have been huge changes in OS X since then, with a remake of Quicktime in Cocoa and all the new HPC tools like GCD and OpenCL... Apple has plenty of opportunities to make progress.