“It’s NAB (the National Association of Broadcasters conference) in Las Vegas, that means lots of new camera and video stuff,” Devin Coldewey repots for CrunchGear. “It’s more pro gear than consumer stuff, which is probably why Apple took over the Final Cut Pro User Group Supermeet there to unveil the newest version of their professional video editing software. They’re calling it as revolutionary as the original Final Cut released back in ’99.”
Final Cut Pro X has been rebuilt from the ground up. Features include:
• Now 64-bit, with OpenCL support
• All editing native – no transcoding (for supported formats incl. H264, I assume)
• New U with “magnetic timeline” and new clip sync method
• Resolution independent playback system
• Handles up to 4K
• Uses Grand Central Dispatch to utilize all your cores
• Fully color-managed (ColorSync)
• Media ready for editing immediately – but stabilization, audio and shutter correction, shot detection and preliminary color balancing automatically applied during ingest
• Timecode-based keywording within clips
• Collections and “smart” collections of media based on metadata and analysis, presented in iMovie filmstrip style
• Auto-syncing clips via audio waveform analysis
• Automated color-matching between clips
Full article, with shot of the new UI, here.
Notes from the event via Photography Bay here.
MacRumors also has more info here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “James W.,” “GRANDxADMIRAL,” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Is anyone tired of the fact that everything Apple releases is “revolutionary”? I know the blind followers aren’t.
Hey, it’s not their fault there isn’t a single other company that can match their rate of success and brilliance in design.
Yeah, thus my “blind follower” comment. By your account, nothing exists but Apple products and crap. Nice to see that intelligence is a rare commodity around here.
On the plus side, the pompous, egotistical windbag level peaked to a new high with your post. You are so darned innovative (in the Microsoft sense of the word).
LOL. Definitely a legend in his own mind. 😉
Really??? You name yourself “king” and I’M egotistical? Wow, can I live in your world of hypocrisy too?
My 7 figure income will buy plenty of those “revolutionary” products. My legend will out last even the guy below who is only man enough to go by “JM”. Poor sap, I’ll throw him a few bones. Apparently he doesn’t live in TX
You’re not supposed to count the figures to the right of the decimal point.
Well, you emphatically proved beyond all shadow of doubt my suspicions that you are pathetic beyond words by bringing your “7 figure income” into the discussion.
The good news though is that you are at least not the biggest loser.. The person you conned into paying your salary is. This is of course assuming you aren’t lying, which you likely are. Pathological lying can be a symptom of some conditions that you can easily contract when living in a basement.
So…you SUPPOSEDLY make 7 figures yet you post on a Mac tech blog? F*cking loser.
Lemme, guess: IT drone in Mumbai, seven figure income in Rupees?
When someone’s last name is King and first name Mel (or Melvin), I don’t think one should read anything into the ‘KingMel’ handle.
Stopping and thinking before writing is always good…
“7 figure income” = $7/hr
So you come here to talk trash on Apple users to what end? Does it make you feel somehow smart to belittle and insult people? Are you so completely pathetic that this is the way you choose to entertain yourself?
Look, son… It isn’t blind fanaticism at work here. It is more than obvious to anyone with even the tiniest sliver of intellect that Apple is leading the pack in almost every area. As evidence of this, I submit the deluge of copied Apple designs from virtually every single tech company on the planet.
The only blindness I see here is your own blind, irrational hatred of what is clearly a superior company. Let me guess, you probably rail against anything deemed cool or popular just so you can perpetuate the illusion that you are not a conformist. Grow up.
Oh and for what it’s worth, every company in existence uses hyperbolic language when announcing new products. It’s called marketing 101. Fortunately, Apple does more than talk the talk.
Thanks for playing….
Mr. Stranger,
First of all, you gave me pause to think about my past transgressions. I thank you for that.
Secondly, I admit that I love everything apple has produced in the past twenty years (save the hockey puck mouse).
Your insight into my bad behavior shall force me to reexamine my intentions and check my hubris at the door.
I will no longer rail against mindless praise on Apple products and shall forever bless the low lifes that believe that Apple is the only company that matters.
Farewell
Only one low life here, and he lives in your mirror. Your patronizing condescention isn’t winning you any points either. If you’ve ever typed a single word of truth, may it be the “farewell” you chose to end with.
i can’t believe I’m about to quote captian Kirk…
“Kahn…I’m laughing at your superior intellect.”
🙂
What poor …TX (and others like him) always fail to notice, is that Apple users are the most scrutinizing critics of Apple products. Apple haters just reproduce the same old rubbish while bragging about their intelligence, not forgetting to emphasize the “fact” that they do not use anything from Apple not because they cannot afford it but because they don’t need it. On second thought he is not that clever, he should rather spend his time promoting Apple’s rival products instead of provoking flame in MDN.
Well, every company uses some slogan to get your attention.
M$ uses Innovative, but are their products innovative? Right.
I love you FormerlyBannedTX.
Are we really actually going to see Grand Central put to use? Finally a reason to upgrade my Mac Pro.
Finally, someone else has noted the most important aspect of the announcement. It’ the GC that cements this product as revolutionary indeed. I certainly hope it lives up to the promises.
How smart can you be living in Texas? How’s that crazy Christian, know-nothing, anti-Evolution state working out for ya?
Not too bad in the fall, winter, and early spring, Tommy boy. Interestingly enough, if you take “crazy” and “know-nothing” out of your comment, many Texans would likely take it as a fine compliment.
I am solidly on the side of primate ancestors and real science, so I don’t fit your profile. But there are plenty who do and they don’t all live here in Texass.
No state income taxes (cuz you Yanks buy lots of oil) works well with my 7 figure income. Thank you very much. Will allow me to afford a FCX upgrade very easily. Gots ta git me sum a dat revolutionary sh*t.
Twice you bring up your income? Jesus man, you are so sad. Do you really think anyone here is even remotely impressed? Lmao
OOOHHH!!! He’s got a 7-figure income! Let’s just hope he’s not Enroning it.
Its seven figures when you include the .00 on the end
Actually, I was born and raised in TX. You judging this idiot a representative of the people of an entire state puts you right there in the same category as him
Lighten up people!!! You folks are so friggin up tight. Love life and love Apple stuff!
You come here posting irrelevant, baseless, and insulting nonsense, and then suggest we need to “lighten up” when you get put in your place? Seriously man, you need a friend… or a shrink.
Tried the shrink. It didn’t work.
Long live Apple (as long as they get rid of Jobs).
Whatever happened to the farewell you promised?
As long as they get rid of Jobs? Well, you truly certified your idiocy with that nugget. You need a history lesson.
nice, from the bullet points above this looks to be a significant upgrade.
hey-how ’bout dat……GEEK UPGRADE!!! Guess I’ll have to wait for the video from the Supermeet to get excited. Maybe if I called Jobs and had him read this article to me I’d be more excited.
Heck I’d buy the alphabets if steve Jobs delivered the keynote.
“Ladies and Gentlemen…The iGlyphs”. Then Apple would charge license fees and royalties on every word written and spoken.
Well, if you have ever had to edit on a professional level, you’d be plenty excited about some of the promised improvements. It is actually HUGE upgrade. Looking forward to more details.
I don’t doubt it. I just never get a boner from reading specs. the screenshot looked like a complete overhaul.
what can I say, I’m more into the craft of editing moreso than the specs of the gear.
i’ve seen pieces from young students who can put together better stories and content with iMovie than a pro gear-head could with all the latest gear.
but everyone knows it’s the size of the processor and not the emotion of the piece.
here’s a better link for people who actually use Final Cut as opposed to report on “Apple Computer” to supplement the half-@ssed take above:
Now THIS is exciting!!!!
http://fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/332-welcome-to-the-new-final-cut-pro-x-on-the-app-store-in-june-for-299
At least one “real” editor agrees with me:
http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/index.cfm?articleId=3273072
I hear you… But if you watch the video from the event, it should become clear that the focus of this iteration is on allowing editors to focus on making great edits without having to waste time on all of the technical minutae.
Honestly, this upgrade is right up your alley.
OK, I haven’t even skimmed through all of the hype, so, if this stuff is covered somewhere, flame the living crap out of me!
What’s happening to Motion and Soundtrack and all those Boris filters I bought? Considering what I (and everyone else) has been paying to keep FCP up-to-date over the last 10 years, the $299 price seems almost insane. Have they got something to put Avid and Adobe out of business or is this just iMovie for folks with 7 figure incomes and let the pros go elsewhere?
sorry adobe, apple and avid own this market.
because both apple and avid 3 to 5 years ahead of you.
According to Apple tonight their share of the NLE market is skyrocketing as both Avid and Adobe’s are in decline. I was there tonight and the new Final Cut Pro X will indeed be a fantastic upgrade. Apple’s representatives were at times overwhelmed by the enthusiastic and happy crowd. Everybody would like it now instead of June but oh well. It’ll be available at at the Mac App Store. The other Suite applications will probably end up as separate apps at the Mac App Store too.
FCP X IS A JOKE.
BYBY PRO APPS HELLO IMOVIE , IDVD, GARAGE BAND. THOSE ARE YOUR REPLACEMENTS FOR PRO APPS.
Really? I thought it was also the USER who is the professional using tools to make pro productions? U2 used Garage Band for a soundtrack. And you’ve actually had time to USE FCP X for a valid opinion? Right… leave your judgment elsewhere.
“Professional” doesn’t have to mean “exclusive”. It should mean the best tools for the job, regardless of price. This may ignite the video equivalent of the podcast explosion.
Wow.. Lots of trolls here. Some small, some Texas sized…..
Will it do for Final Cut 6 what iMovie 8 did for iMovie 6?
For me, the most intriguing new features re:
No transcoding, presumably for H.264 too (so many people feel they just MUST edit AVCHD directly, rather than transcode, thinking the generational loss is unacceptable);
Resolution independence
4k handling
Grand Central dispatch for utilizing all cores
Automatic clip sync by analysing audio
Automatic colour sync between clips
This will allow for continuation of that sustained growth of market share for FCP against Avid and Adobe. A lot of people have waited for it and it seems like Apple delivered. In the end, the proof is in the pudding, though. We have yet to see how buggy it will be in the real world (hopefully, nowhere near as buggy as Adobe’s CS products…).
Impressive! The gold standard of video editing.
However Apple still trails Microsoft in making
pie charts and spreadsheets. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Good news. Advances in software are always welcome. Will there be A Final Cut Express version??
It doesn’t seem likely. When watching the video of the event, the speaker said “We’ve had a lot of confusion in the past with upgrades, studio bundles, and Express. We’re doing away with all of that in an attempt to simplify things for our users. ” Then he announced the $299 price.
Doesn’t make much sense to continue with Express when Pro is so affordable. iMovie really should satisfy the needs of any hobbyist at this point. If you need more, just go Pro.