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I'm not sure if folks remember this, but Macromedia's NLE avoided the fate of FreeHand and Fireworks thanks to Apple. The spirit of Macromedia lives on! https:

I'm not sure if folks remember this, but Macromedia's NLE avoided the fate of FreeHand and Fireworks thanks to Apple. The spirit of Macromedia lives on! https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Final_Cut https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Final_Cut

mortenjorck 3y ago
I was well-versed in Logic's origins at Emagic, but I had no idea FCP began as a Macromedia product in the 90s. From saving Final Cut to delivering the death blow to Flash about twelve years later. Imagine the alternate history if Apple had acquired FreeHand and/or Fireworks around the time Macromedia was mulling a sale to Adobe!
- xattt 3y ago
  I’m fascinated with the productivity suite that Apple could have built with Macromedia IP beyond Pages, Keynote and Numbers.
  - WillAdams 3y ago
    I'm still saddened that during the FH/MX beta-testing and thereafter it wasn't possible for Macromedia to re-work Freehand as a native Cocoa app for Mac OS X.
xattt 3y ago
In an alternate reality where Apple didn’t buy out FC, it’s possible FC would have been consolidated into Premiere after Adobe’s acquisition.
- Lammy 3y ago
  Imagine the alternate-alternate reality where Quark buys Adobe first https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB90580703033602000 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB90580703033602000
- ghaff 3y ago
  Final Cut Pro and Premiere are one of the relative few examples where you have two (rather than one) pro/prosumer level product in a given category.
  - xattt 3y ago
    It’s whatever you learn first. I used FCP when it was easily “available”, and still have trouble transitioning to the PP workflow.
    - ghaff 3y ago
      Not that I'm an expert in any case--and I do serious video editing so seldom that I've always forgotten everything by the next time I need to do it--but FCP always clocked with me a lot better than Premiere for some reason even though I use Adobe for still photos.
justinator 3y ago
I mean, it's alive, but it's on life support. The last major release was in 2017, and it's been dot releases ever since. Sometimes months apart.
themagician 3y ago
I had NO IDEA about this. TIL. Thanks mate.
aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 3y ago
At Macromedia, the codename for this project was "Keygrip". Also, it was cross-platform for Mac and Windows.

mortenjorck 3y ago

I was well-versed in Logic's origins at Emagic, but I had no idea FCP began as a Macromedia product in the 90s. From saving Final Cut to delivering the death blow to Flash about twelve years later. Imagine the alternate history if Apple had acquired FreeHand and/or Fireworks around the time Macromedia was mulling a sale to Adobe!

xattt 3y ago
I’m fascinated with the productivity suite that Apple could have built with Macromedia IP beyond Pages, Keynote and Numbers.
- WillAdams 3y ago
  I'm still saddened that during the FH/MX beta-testing and thereafter it wasn't possible for Macromedia to re-work Freehand as a native Cocoa app for Mac OS X.

xattt 3y ago

In an alternate reality where Apple didn’t buy out FC, it’s possible FC would have been consolidated into Premiere after Adobe’s acquisition.

Lammy 3y ago
Imagine the alternate-alternate reality where Quark buys Adobe first https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB90580703033602000 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB90580703033602000
ghaff 3y ago
Final Cut Pro and Premiere are one of the relative few examples where you have two (rather than one) pro/prosumer level product in a given category.
- xattt 3y ago
  It’s whatever you learn first. I used FCP when it was easily “available”, and still have trouble transitioning to the PP workflow.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    Not that I'm an expert in any case--and I do serious video editing so seldom that I've always forgotten everything by the next time I need to do it--but FCP always clocked with me a lot better than Premiere for some reason even though I use Adobe for still photos.

justinator 3y ago

I mean, it's alive, but it's on life support. The last major release was in 2017, and it's been dot releases ever since. Sometimes months apart.

themagician 3y ago

I had NO IDEA about this. TIL. Thanks mate.

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 3y ago

At Macromedia, the codename for this project was "Keygrip". Also, it was cross-platform for Mac and Windows.