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Apple Adds New Features to Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Motion, Compressor, and Logic Pro
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I loved Aperture. But Apple has lost a lot of trust with their photo and video apps by carelessly tending and occasionally walking away from them. It's DaVinci and Lightroom for me now. As much as I dislike Adobe at least they act like they're trying. Apple treats these products like a hobby they get bored with.
So I wouldn't use Aperture again, even if they re-released it. It's too disruptive changing workflows when they inevitably stop updating it again.
How about being able to choose the secondary display or allowing for more customization as to which display is primary.
The fact that they dropped Aperture, a major professional app, convinced me that Apple might do it again. ALWAYS you need an exit plan for the Apple ecosystem. Apple could drop FCP tomorrow. Be sure to have a plan-B.
Aperture was being developed and promoted by Apple and was well-used and popular and then one day, Apple announced plans to drop it. In Apple's credit, they let it die a long death and did not immediately remove it. This gave people a chance to move away from either MacOS or to some other app.
I can see Apple doing this with Logic next.
So the iPad version is still useless because it can't edit from an SSD?
Single seat...
$60 x 12 = $720 for the suite as an individual
$90 x 12 = $1080 if you are a business
Granted...you could pay $450 for a single app, but that's almost silly.
Nothing against Adobe and its pricing...it makes sense for them to price their products for professionals. The subscription model worked wonders for them financially.
I'm just happy there are other viable options for those whose design work isn't a full-time gig, but rather a side gig or labor of love.
He did and he isn't using it for one reason: it's tied to the iCloud Photo Library. If it wasn't, he would use it.
FCP is almost as good as the free version of Resolve and nowhere close to the pro version.
Unless Apple pulls a major blunder like the butterfly keyboard, they're mostly a one-way street. Those geniuses don’t really care about our opinions. About losing Aperture, yeah, I’m one of those still cursing it. There’s just no photo management tool that's better, more professional, or more industry-standard than that. As for Final Cut Pro, my brother wanted to learn video editing for his store's promotion last year. He was about to buy FCP, but I stopped him. I let him use my Adobe account and got my wife to teach him Resolve. I told him: 'There are many industry standards, but Apple’s apps aren't one of them. They're basically toys, and they might ditch you anytime.' He ditched FCP at checkout after hearing that.
I feel pretty proud that I could make a tiny dent in Tim's yacht fund. Look at that ridiculous 'Photo' app; it made me realize Apple will never, and dare not, make anything professional-grade again. They just can't and won't. I don’t care if it’s some diehard fan or whoever disagrees; like the saying goes, don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do. Whether fans agree or not doesn’t matter to me. I see what Apple is up to.
Ado0be Premiere currently leaves Final Cut Pro in dust. and these small upgrades wont make a difference. too little too late. Apple would have to step up Artificial Intelligent features. I think Adobe Premiere will keep the crown. They got the money coming in monthly to keep adding new features.
QFT on the Aperture subject! Boy do I miss it too. And the regular Photos app on macOS is incredibly lacking in features. I really miss OneUp, Loupe, Light Table, Stacks, add geo from .gpx file, keywords HUD, Smart Albums, Single Key Shortcuts, Hot & Cold Areas, Multi Monitor support, working in Full Screen, Spot & Patch, creating Books, Create a Smart Web Page Album / Web Journal, workspace customisation, )restoring from) Vaults... the list goes on.
Just reading the manual gives my goosebumps, and sorrow.
I'm using RAW Power, which is designed by a former Apple Aperture dev. Great app, but even this one isn't on par with Aperture.
Cheers,
Peace,
Out
Good gawd no. I'd rather have Motion for iCloud processing large cues and multiple instances simultaneously that requires much large memory footprints possible and leverage Cloud Server services for such. Oh, I don't know say a cluster of EPYC servers with MI300 sold to Apple to provide said service instances?
Apple at any time can revisit a new Aperture and expand all sorts of capabilities through their own Cloud services regarding large data set processing and more. I think how they would plan to incorporate it to tie within professional applications would be really interesting. Being able to incorporate it into Motion, Final Cut Pro while keeping the main application, not to mention leverage Compressor and of course their Neural Engine on chip and from Cloud distributed servers would be worth purchasing such processing for a small subscription. People are doing so with iPad Logic I'd imagine they'd be willing to pay for access to AWS style processing for such apps. It's not as if Apple couldn't have a fleet of EPYC/MI300 series instances for use.
I dont know for sure....BUT....my thoughts are Aperture was cancelled as a business decision for more native Adobe support...Apple actually released a migration to TO Lightroom!! Adobe, who normally is at odds with Apple, was at the next keynote demonstrating Photoshop for iPad...It sounds like a backroom deal, Adobe moves the development on iOS and MacOS up, and Apple sells more hardware, which is what they want to do. Thats why that Aperture code is done...now why someone didn't just COPY it and release it is beyond me. When was the last time that Apple discontinued software and then released a migration tool for its main competitor?