FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

Direct link to App Store: Purchase FCP X $299 USD

Apple site: Apple - Final Cut Pro X - A revolution in creative editing.
FCP X User Manual is located here: http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0/

and.... Motion 5 is only $49.99 USD Apple - Final Cut Pro X - Motion 5 - What's New
The Motion 5 User Manual can be viewed here: https://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5....ual/index.html

Compressor 4 is also $49.99 Apple - Final Cut Pro X - Compressor 4 - Powerful encoding for Final Cut Pro X
Compressor 4 User Manual: http://help.apple.com/compressor/mac...or/usermanual/

Installing FCP X seems to reorganize the apps from Final Cut Studio into their own folder.

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

Guess there's time to wait for evaluations to come in. And to see if Adobe or Avid do any special deals!

Re: Final Cut Pro X Officially Released
 

How will it handle AVCHD?

Ron

ps bet you £200 plus in the UK until and if available as a download when hopefully just priced in USD wherever you live

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£179 in the UK with Motion and Compressor at £29.99 each - bargain!

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

I will not be ditching final cut pro 7 just yet for major projects.. but that doesn't mean that I didn't just buy it and we'll start testing it now... I'll report back.

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Cool! FCP X supports the h.264/AVC hardware assisted encoding/decoding with the new Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, that should be a nice boost to performance. And it can natively use iTunes, Aperture & iPhoto as media management libraries.

Audio features look good, J&L cuts look like a snap, and the included Logic effects, narration & downloadable audio content are pretty beefy.

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No word any kinda of DVD authoring much less Bluray. I dont expect another DVDSP but I would expect some kind of DVD exporter.

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

Yes there is basic DVD and Blu-Ray export just as with FCS3.

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

I'm looking forward to trying this out soon! I am/was hoping BD and DVD authoring would be more robust.

heath

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

Wow!

Those who edit with DSLR and:or AVCHD will rejoice. The thing is FAST! finally.
But don't throw away FCS3 yet. FCPx has lots of potential but tape ingest except for FireWire, XML and OMF are gone. Also no fcp7 project import. Yet.

Color looks like it was rolled into FCpX. But I think Apple might have a new version in the future.

Greg

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Yeah, don't toss out FCS 3 yet!

I don't think Soundtrack Pro or Color will be sold separately -- I just watched the video on Apple's site and it's all built-in nicely now.

heath

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

Greg, have you loaded FCP X and been able to keep FCP 7?

Thanks.

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

I added links in the original post for the User Guides for FCP X and Motion 5.

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

FCP 7 is not overwritten, just moved to another folder in the apps folder, FCPX takes over the existing icon in the dock, but you can put the FCP7 icon right next to it if you want!

Re: FCP X Now available to buy and download from App Store
 

You can keep older versions and run them on the same system, just not at the same time. FCP X will give you a warning.