First sneak peek FinalCutPro 8

UPDATE: just got more infos … more updates tomorrow

UPDATE 2 : Video shows how some stuff in FCP 8 works (right at the end of this post)

UPDATE 3: more new facts and a new video (right at the end of this post)

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UPDATE 4: now that is a real one! (for real) … (6th of April)

“Rumors are flying that Apple will be using the Vegas Supermeet to announce the next version of Final Cut Pro.”

… So that would be April 12th … (Tuesday)
more infos: provideocoalition.com

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UPDATE 5: now that is another real one! (for real) … (6th of April)

FCPUGNetwork: ”The Final Cut Pro User Group Network is excited to have a very special guest presentation at the 10th Annual Las Vegas FCPUG SuperMeet. Come to see a surprise sneak peek at something very special – you really do not want to miss this one!”
supermeet.com

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Well … after months and months of speculation and waiting today the curtain did drop, at least a lil bit.
Some first screenshots and feature-details “leaked” into the Video-Editing-World:

I’ve got the info yesterday, but was in the edit-suite all day … so i had no time to “look into” that. And there was an NDA till this morning 12:01am anyways

Well what can i say it seems like some fears getting reality.
The interface looks very familiar. First big change: it will be a more mouse editing oriented  NLE-App … one more step into iOS direction i guess.

Good thing though: FCP8 will be more integrated with Motion & Co. Not just templates & “send/link to” in a drop down menu. How far this integration goes is not specified publicly yet.It will be an App Store only app … you can buy all FinalCutStudio Apps standalone or in one package – pricing will be Announced. Apple will have a Special Event one week after NAB on 19th of April.

Some first Screenshots:

Key-Features are:

- 64 bit App

- Background Rendering

- GPU acceleration

- can use up to 64 GB Ram and all CPUs avalible

- native H.246 and R3D support including RED EPIC / HDRx and many other codecs

- new Title tools

- Quicktime Pro 11 / AV Foundation with OS X Lion

- 3D editing mode

- ProResLT, ProRes 422, ProResHQ 422 ProRes 4444, all 12bit YUV only

- Blu-ray, CNN iReporter,  Vimeo, MySpace support

- Single Screen / Window App

- new Edit mode’s (called “Freehand” and “Magic-Mind”")

Thats it … many more infos to come soon …

So is all that a good thing? … well … as Apple claims: the new FCP will be for the mainstream of Apple’s customer base…

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UPDATE 2:

so here is a lil screen capture to show how some new stuff works in FCP 8

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UPDATE 3:

new Video  -  Larry Jordan answers questions. (LINK)

Oh and one new Fact: it’s all an April Fool … sorry

…but c’mon:

- H.246 ??

- Quicktime Pro 11 ??

- 12bit YUV only ???

- Blu-ray & MySpace support ???

- Single Screen / Window App ???

- new Edit mode’s (called “Freehand” and “Magic-Mind”") ???

… we still have to wait and see wat will come this or next year … for now i like FCP 7

Don’t use iTunes10.1 for Pro-stuff!

UPDATE  02/07/2011:

WITH THE UPDATE ITUNES 10.1.2 THE TEREO SOUND IS NOW CLEAR & GOOD !

… so iTunes 10.1.2 is cleared for Pro-stuff  again

 

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well i noticed a strange “mono-like” sound coming out of iTunes lately … so today i did “investigate” it closely and discovered that this is really an issue that is yet to fix by Apple – even with the “recently ” published update to version 10.1+ …

BTW: Everybody can check the iTunes “sound quality” themselves by playing a track in iTunes and playing the same track with Quicktime (using the right click on the Track >> “show in Finder” option in iTunes)

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UPDATE  01/03/2011:

it seems some iPhone 4 / iTunes 10.1 / RME Audiointerface  users got ride of the problem:

by user F5D (http://discussions.apple.com/profile.jspa?userID=621642)

1) Closed iTunes
2) In system Preferences, changed the sound output from RME HDSPe to Line out (built in)
3) Opened iTunes and started to play some music
4) While iTunes was playing, changed the Line Out back to RME HDSPe

The iTunes 10.1 is now working! The stereo image and clarity are back! What a strange problem. Btw, if you try to change the output while iTunes is playing and you are facing the problem, it stays. The key is to open iTunes while you have the line out selected. You have to close iTunes before changing between the outputs.

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some forum posts i’ve found so far:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/549883-itunes-10-1-ruined-playback-sound-totally.html

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12686373&tstart=0

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2654090&tstart=0

so there seems to be just one option / fix  right now: downgrade you iTunes to version 10.0:

http://appletoolbox.com/2010/11/how-to-downgrade-itunes-10-1-to-itunes-10/

UPDATE: If you use an iPhone 4 you have to use iTunes 10.1 … so you have to life with that mono issue … sorry

i did it and it works fine… sound quality is back to normal … iTunes library is working fine!
so if you want to listen to your music in full stereo / quality whether it’s just for enjoyment or for your pro-stuff work … you have to do this! … otherwise your Mac has just become another “not-really-made-for-pro-stuff-issue”

If someone got another idea or fix please let me know!!

UPDATE: oh and please let Apple know that you have a issue with your  iTunes … so maybe they fix this anytime soon:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html