David Knaggs
July 4th, 2011, 07:06 PM
Now that the "dust is settling" a bit after the FCP X release, I've noticed that I am (and a few others are posting similar thoughts) seriously considering setting up a "two-car garage" on my Mac. That is, purchasing and running Production Premium CS5.5 alongside FCP X going forward.
And I think the reason for this goes beyond FCP X itself (as a single entity) and whether or not Version 1.0 is missing some basic functionality.
It's the "need for a suite".
With the release of FCP X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4, it seems that DVD SP, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Cinema Tools have been discontinued (EOL).
No further updates or maintenance if a future OS update "breaks" any of these discontinued applications. This can leave anyone quite anxious about the tools needed to earn their daily bread.
Therefore the need is better defined as the "need for a constantly maintained and updated suite". One which keeps up with the times. Hence the need for professional self-protection and setting up a "two-car garage" editing suite.
Now, having said that, it might be possible that Apple is simply part-way into the process of folding the entire previous FCS into the one application - FCP X.
Look at the original evolution. Plain old FCP. Then FCP HD (wow!) with a few additional side apps such as LiveType and Soundtrack. Then FCP was sold only as Final Cut Suite with DVD SP (wow!), the greatly upgraded Soundtrack Pro (wow!) and Motion. Perhaps Adobe then followed suit and started bundling some of its apps into the Production Premium Suite (can't remember exactly)???
Then Apple bought the company which made Color (which I think might have been selling for $10,000+ per seat) and added it to FCS2. At no extra charge. (Wow!)
A few years later and they have apparently discontinued DVD SP, STP and Color.
A couple of years ago, I made a post saying, "wouldn't it be great ..." if they folded all of the STP sound editing tools into FCP and save all of the tedious round-tripping. And the same thing with Color, Motion, etc.
It's possible that now they have set up the base code for the new 64 bit environment, they might now go ahead and port the full features of these "discontinued" FCS apps into FCP X. STP and Color might be first. The DVD SP authoring functions could be fully folded into the Share features of FCP X. Finally, Motion and Compressor (currently selling separately for $50 each) would be folded in.
I really love the idea of being able to do everything in the one powerful app.
Perhaps that is Apple's roadmap and we're only seeing the first (flubby) step of a great journey.
In the meantime, I'm likely to set up a two-car garage. Just in case I'm wrong about Apple's direction with this. It's the safer bet.
And I think the reason for this goes beyond FCP X itself (as a single entity) and whether or not Version 1.0 is missing some basic functionality.
It's the "need for a suite".
With the release of FCP X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4, it seems that DVD SP, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Cinema Tools have been discontinued (EOL).
No further updates or maintenance if a future OS update "breaks" any of these discontinued applications. This can leave anyone quite anxious about the tools needed to earn their daily bread.
Therefore the need is better defined as the "need for a constantly maintained and updated suite". One which keeps up with the times. Hence the need for professional self-protection and setting up a "two-car garage" editing suite.
Now, having said that, it might be possible that Apple is simply part-way into the process of folding the entire previous FCS into the one application - FCP X.
Look at the original evolution. Plain old FCP. Then FCP HD (wow!) with a few additional side apps such as LiveType and Soundtrack. Then FCP was sold only as Final Cut Suite with DVD SP (wow!), the greatly upgraded Soundtrack Pro (wow!) and Motion. Perhaps Adobe then followed suit and started bundling some of its apps into the Production Premium Suite (can't remember exactly)???
Then Apple bought the company which made Color (which I think might have been selling for $10,000+ per seat) and added it to FCS2. At no extra charge. (Wow!)
A few years later and they have apparently discontinued DVD SP, STP and Color.
A couple of years ago, I made a post saying, "wouldn't it be great ..." if they folded all of the STP sound editing tools into FCP and save all of the tedious round-tripping. And the same thing with Color, Motion, etc.
It's possible that now they have set up the base code for the new 64 bit environment, they might now go ahead and port the full features of these "discontinued" FCS apps into FCP X. STP and Color might be first. The DVD SP authoring functions could be fully folded into the Share features of FCP X. Finally, Motion and Compressor (currently selling separately for $50 each) would be folded in.
I really love the idea of being able to do everything in the one powerful app.
Perhaps that is Apple's roadmap and we're only seeing the first (flubby) step of a great journey.
In the meantime, I'm likely to set up a two-car garage. Just in case I'm wrong about Apple's direction with this. It's the safer bet.