Comments on: Final Cut Pro X: What’s still missing after the 10.0.6 update

By: Hg Wells

Hg Wells — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:44:32 +0000

I don’t think people are understanding what Taylor and others here are saying. Even with the list of requests, it is the best out there. “I really like FCPX’s unique editing paradigm and, for the most part, find it a refreshing joy to use.” That’s a pretty positive endorsement. Clearly, his 90 item list is not enough to cause him to disparage FCPX.

Hopefully, Apple will get use his list to make FCPX untouchable.

FCPX is not an example of Apple’s slide into mediocrity. Just the opposite. Many users would not go back to FCP7 even if they could. Perfect? No. Nothing is. But it’s on the move. More and more using it are fine with it. They increasingly like it a lot. Trolls here?

By: Hg Wells

Hg Wells — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:32:29 +0000

+1, especially Compressor!

By: WH

WH — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:48:17 +0000

And after reading the list, I agree with 70% of it. Regardless FCPX is a great program and more enjoyable to use than the competition.

By: Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:23:09 +0000

That’s what happens when you destroy dedicated developer teams and use the Jobs method of throwing different combinations of staff at problems in a disappearing task force. You make some very burned out software engineers and some highly compromised software.

Anyone who has depended upon specific professional tools to accomplish their work knows tools or equipment that has been designed by people who know and understand the needs of the people who use it. FCP-X looks like an outsider’s take on what an editing program should be.

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:14:28 +0000

Stay tuned. Hopefully I will have someone’s ear during 10.8.2 beta testing,

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:13:11 +0000

Remember the miserly memory days? Remember when you had less than 100 MB of RAM and could run the OS, and Photoshop, and Mail, and Address Book and iCab all at the same time? With no crashing or crawling? I still have my old Quadra 650 with MOS 9 and a PPC upgrade card that can do that. WHY THE FRACK CAN’T MY 2011 Mac with 4 GB of RAM do that without gagging?

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:09:10 +0000

The secret problem is when the RAM cache inexplicably fills to the brim and OS X starts going full time using the drive for cache memory. I cannot comprehend how I can have nearly 1 GB of cache RAM being used, theoretically available for just-in-time cache swapping, and my Macs BOG DOWN TO A TURTLE CRAWL. Idiotic. Only wiping out the cache RAM brings the system to life, entirely BACKWARDS of how its supposed to work. Sheesh.

There was a time when Object Oriented Programming was going to be a savior of coding. But then we figured out that OOP also enables CRAPCODE to live on forever and ever. The object sits there screwing up eternity because no one bothered to check whether it requires improvement. It was probably poorly documented and the original programmer has left the planet.

And we thought we could create Artificial Intelligence. Right.

By: john

john — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:47:31 +0000

90 requests on a wish list. Oh the TOP 90…yup, there’s more. That’s quite a list of Missing features. I love #57. Bars and Tone Generator. It’s so bad. Please just admit it,
It really is bad. Just face it. FCP X is a perfect metaphor for Apple’s slide to mediocrity. They should have the BEST software solution for EVERY possible scenario. FCP should be Hands DOWN the best. Not a cartoon. As my stock slides.

By: WH

WH — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:17:46 +0000

FCPX has never grabbed a huge portion of RAM as long as I have used it. GPU memory was a different story until I updated my video card but I had the cheapest card. I also turned off the full screen option on most of my Apple programs. What grabs memory (and I have Activity Monitor on 99% of the time)? The Safari Flash plug-in. Next villain? Compressor when it is asked to burn a BluRay or DVD. It grabs all the free memory and refuses to let go even if the program is shut-down. Only a terminal purge command will free up the RAM.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:34:30 +0000

This is so true. Memory leak is the #1 issue on Apple, and it’s not just with Safari. iTunes and iPhoto are hogs too.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:35:07 +0000

I was going to object on various technical grounds, but then I saw that Apple has released Aperture 3.4.3 – It fixes an issue that could cause a licensed copy of Aperture to prompt for a serial number with each launch. That’s it (and I was experiencing this). 548 MB update! And yes, I was on 3.4.2. Not a lot of confidence that this stated fix is all that’s going on. Finder shows the app as being a 935.1MB file. Seriously.

By: Bizlaw

Bizlaw — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:02:29 +0000

Agree with Safari. I periodically quit it just because it starts to affect everything else.

When things get slow or act weird, quit Safari. Problem solved!

By: I love Apple

I love Apple — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:56:14 +0000

14 new features in a dot-dot-release is huge, especially as those features are mainly big ones. Keep in mind that the update speed of FCP X is impressive, it is the sixth update since its release in 2011.

I love the fact that Apple does the updates so quickly, FCP X matures every three months or so. I really wish Apple would take care for Pages and Numbers the same way.

Yes, Kudos to the FCP X team. Great job!

By: A View From the Other Side

A View From the Other Side — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:38:48 +0000

+1 Don’t know how many times i’ve seem safari taking up over 1GB of Ram, even if I close all the tabs which are resource heavy it doesn’t revert back unless I quite it, which is a pain…

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:25 +0000

90 Requests: Says it all.
Request #1: Blows FCPX out of the water is ill conceived.

Apple has one overall OS X problem these days that comes screaming through in the 90 requests:

Apple has lost control of memory management in OS X. It is ABYSMAL. This the accelerating number of utilities to compensate for the problem. But none of them are the cure. Apple rewriting their core memory management is the cure.

Want a test canary for the coal mine? Start with nasty RAM sucking Safari. What a gluttonous pig.

By: Woodbine

Woodbine — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:13:04 +0000

14 new feature? Must the work of the one man FCPX team.

By: ajendus

ajendus — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:12:01 +0000

FCPX has been my editing system of choice since its release. There are still some features I’d like to see; this list is pretty solid although some are very specific and also many were never in FCP 7 or other editing systems. But I’d love to see what comes of this list.

Note: Yes, I actually work in film/TV as a director and cinematographer. Editing is a common practice for me too.

By: I love Apple

I love Apple — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:25:58 +0000

This is by far the very best list of missing features I’ve ever seen. I work with FCP X every day, it pays my bills. I have never seen a better video editing software than this, but there is still a lot of work to do. Impressive list, thanks a lot.

Yes, I worked with Premiere Pro and with Avid amongst others. Some specific features are better than in FCP X. But all lack a lot of other things. In total FCP X is by far the best software in this area.

I wish Apple would put some work on the Compressor which has an totally outdated multi-window interface, cluttered and ugly and barely readable on a big screen. It is a nightmare and needs a complete overhaul.

By: Cuttentape

Cuttentape — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:24:29 +0000

I locked my keys in my car and Final Cut Pro X jimmied the lock so I could get back in. All Adobe Premiere did was offer to break the window, while Avid never even looked up from her Blackberry.