I am a learner too, and I am using FCP to learnI'm not a pro so I have to ask, what does everyone use instead? Premier or DaVinci? I use Lumafusion on iPad just doing basic videos, applying LUTs and other things just for learning.
I am a learner too, and I am using FCP to learnI'm not a pro so I have to ask, what does everyone use instead? Premier or DaVinci? I use Lumafusion on iPad just doing basic videos, applying LUTs and other things just for learning.
Pretty much yes. Resolve in particular has had a hugs growth in user base. There are still some legacy Avid users out there, but only at the high end (not individual users).I'm not a pro so I have to ask, what does everyone use instead? Premier or DaVinci? I use Lumafusion on iPad just doing basic videos, applying LUTs and other things just for learning.
Pretty sure if you're looking exclusively at Apple's overall cost to develop and maintain FCP, it would likely be a loss. Profits are made up in hardware sales. It also builds their public image as the company that caters to creatives. As someone who's been using FCP since 1998, I've worried the past several years about its future as updates were very slow to roll out.I have no doubt that if they were in a position like Adobe is in, that FCP11 would be subscription based. I wonder how much money Apple has lost due to the transition from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X, and what metric they track that is telling them that they still shouldn't turn it into a subscription model.
Are any media extensions currently available?The Media Extensions thing is huge, I wish it was system-wide
Then again, the age of oddball video codecs is kind of over and with QuickTime Player being pretty much gutted feature wise I just install Iina for all my mkv needs
Then again it would be nice to have Quick Look for webm and mkv videos…
Maybe for macOS 19
Considering FCP 11 just came out I would be surprised if that was the case, I’m sure it’s gonna happen soonAre any media extensions currently available?
Just a few. Including me.I don't know anyone who uses this professionally anymore. The best part of this is the one time purchase feature, which is probably an attempt to drive up the use base. It might be too far gone at this point.
They sometimes publish making-ofs and you can see them using Davinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere (IIRC). Which frankly is quite embarrassing.How do you know that?
If you mean they show their computers running that software in commercials, it’s far from embarrassing, it’s only natural that they show their products can run industry standard software.They sometimes publish making-ofs and you can see them using Davinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere (IIRC). Which frankly is quite embarrassing.
I mean this video for example:If you mean they show their computers running that software in commercials, it’s far from embarrassing, it’s only natural that they show their products can run industry standard software.
I don’t even know what to say.I mean this video for example:
It ends with
Shot on iPhone
Edited on Mac
Yes, Edited on Mac. But not with FCP. I would expect a company which offers their own "pro" editing software that they would use said software to edit their own videos.
Wow, I hadn't seen that one before. For all their in house "expertise", they sure don't use it to make FCP fully competitive with Resolve. I miss the Apple of the 2000s that cared about those things. I guess it was a Steve Jobs thing.I mean this video for example:
It ends with
Shot on iPhone
Edited on Mac
Yes, Edited on Mac. But not with FCP. I would expect a company which offers their own "pro" editing software that they would use said software to edit their own videos.
The sad thing is that they don’t even seem to believe themselves that it’s competitive anymore.Wow, I hadn't seen that one before. For all their in house "expertise", they sure don't use it to make FCP fully competitive with Resolve. I miss the Apple of the 2000s that cared about those things. I guess it was a Steve Jobs thing.
You guys must be fun at parties. They just released a major update, have been hosting editors the last few at the Cupertino campus, and responded/committed to the open letter written two years ago. What else do you guys want? It’s the fastest and most stable editor around.The sad thing is that they don’t even seem to believe themselves that it’s competitive anymore.
That’s all great and fine. But why don’t they use it themselves then and showcase what it can do?You guys must be fun at parties. They just released a major update, have been hosting editors the last few at the Cupertino campus, and responded/committed to the open letter written two years ago. What else do you guys want? It’s the fastest and most stable editor around.
They do sometimes. Like the Fitness + team is all FCP. The latest FCP announcement video was FCP. Just like any company or project, the people actually doing the work have a say in the software used (plus most is not “in house” anyway.)That’s all great and fine. But why don’t they use it themselves then and showcase what it can do?
I was speaking to the video that was posted that I hadn't seen before and didn't realize that Apple would actually do that in the background and thought they would use FCP and push mixing FCP with Resolve like in years past. That is what separated Apple from other companies and that is they used their own computers and software and therefore worked on making them do the things they needed. Like how they always used Mac OS X Server for powering Apple.com and had up to about 50% of Apple's background hardware running as Xserves.You guys must be fun at parties. They just released a major update, have been hosting editors the last few at the Cupertino campus, and responded/committed to the open letter written two years ago. What else do you guys want? It’s the fastest and most stable editor around.
Are they? These articles seem to indicate that most of the editing happens in realtime while recording, with FCP mainly used in post, but no so much for editing.They do sometimes. Like the Fitness + team is all FCP.
There's always more editing to be done even if shot live. Unless you're literally going directly to broadcast or something. All those Cameras/ISOs go into Final Cut and they finish from there.Are they? These articles seem to indicate that most of the editing happens in realtime while recording, with FCP mainly used in post, but no so much for editing.
I’m not deep into that kind of work though, the system we see in the control room photos might be FCP, but I’m not sure.
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