Comments on: Why I Don’t Believe the Rumors

By: Jeff Handy

Jeff Handy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:27:22 +0000

Hame, I understand your point. You have to look at the long term commitment that Apple made with Final Cut. If they don’t optimize for new hardware they are, by default, selling their new system buyers short. Technology has always been a cat and mouse game – always. Remember when Apple decided to stop putting floppy drives on their computers? Apple leads and others follow. They will always be pushing the envelope and will continue to lead the industry as they always have. Perhaps you will also remember when they went from 030 chips to PPC? Same kind of gig.

That said, if you like the functionality you get currently and it ends up you need a newer system to upgrade FCS, you have a choice. You can keep what you have and not upgrade, or you can buy a new computer and get the upgrade. But as Larry points out, no one in the general public knows yet what’s going to happen with the new Final Cut Studio. We’ll have to wait and see, then we can react. I personally hope they have something to announce by NAB time. Ciao!

By: Hame

Hame — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:03:14 +0000

I really don’t like the idea that the next FCS will be intel only.

I currently use Both Motion 3 and After effects CS3 at work using a Quad Core G5 which (apart from not being able to run windows is a perfectly decent machine)

I am angry at Adobe for making cs4 intel only, but I honestly don’t like after effects enough to care.

Motion however… is the app that compelled me to buy my G5 in the first place. and I would be very annoyed if I was expected to shell out another 5 Grand upgrading my machine just to use the new version of it.

I’m sure i’m not the only person who thought their G5 might last just a tad longer than it appears it will.

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Hame:

I don’t know what the next version of FCS will be. However, Apple has announced that OS X 10.6 – the operating system – will be Intel-only.

Larry

By: Gert

Gert — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:44:43 +0000

I think Apple would do it right by introducing a 32 bit version of the new Final Cut Studio to provide the old users. At the same time they could show a demo of the 64 bit version. Just to the customers dreaming again. Rising their appetite for new hardware.
The new hardware is out….Snow Leopard next and then the 64 bit Version of FCP can follow. (Free for people who already got the 32 bit version and after that Snow Leopard).
In that way I believe Apple will keep everyone happy and help their customers the transition to 64 bits.
Newtek took these steps with Lightwave 3D and others too….who knows what’s going to happen. I’m happy to be part of this time

By: tim

tim — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:27:12 +0000

Excellent points Larry.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:01:14 +0000

Hi Larry,
I can see your logic but it’s not what I want to hear! I’m running FCS V1 and have been holding out for FCS V3. I desperately want a few of the features in FCS V2+ like Prores 422, the ‘drop anything in it’ timeline and Color . . . .

Should I wait another 4 or 5 months for FCS 3 or bite the bullet and go to FCS2 then upgrade soon.

Any idea what the cost penalty is likely to be for doing this?

Appreciate your valuable opinion.

Steve

PS – Love the Buzz BTW

Steve: Thanks for writing!

Apple won’t announce upgrade pricing until the new version ships, so I can’t help there.

The best advice on whether to upgrade now or later is whether the current version can help you get work done, or make money, now. If it can, then upgrade. If this is more of an intellectual exercise, then wait.

ProRes is one of the biggest in FCS 2 — that, and Motion templates. However, from an interface and editing point of view, FCS1 and FCS2 are very, very similar.

By: david bogie

david bogie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:07:26 +0000

The fun of predicting Apple’s product releases has been diminished neither by time nor the documented success/failure records of the rumor sites which, at the best, are no better than guessing.

Speculating about Apple;’s products is an entertaining hobby that has no rewards.
So is reading the rumors.

bogiesan

By: Floh

Floh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:52:52 +0000

Not sure why FCP would need a tweak to run on Intel only, since it is running on Intel and PPC fine right now. I don´t think it is extra work NOT to support an architecture anymore.
And Carbon still will be supported on 10.6. The only thing that is not supported is 64 bit calls under Carbon. So if your app needs to access 64bit memory you need to rework that part of the application that needs to address the larger memory in Cocoa; the fact that (supposedly) the Finder got a rewrite in Cocoa does not mean that Carbon apps will stop working under 10.6