Final Cut SIX!

Here's something to start the rumour mill racing.

[www.thinksecret.com]

mark

A new version of FCP within one year? Final Cut Extreme at $10K per seat?

Interesting to say the least. I certainly hope it is a complete rewrite of the aging interface this time.

As a rule this forum doesnt comment on rumors about the pro-apps. Course its fun to do and I can't stop you, but just remember that these are rumors and chances are it will stay a rumor.

problems to come later in the year

"Help this 4k five camera realtime multicam seq i am editing keeps dropping frames should i upgrade my firewire drive ?"





Onwards and upwards !

LOL. I bet you are dead on Nick

sounds like a bunch of silliness to me... the 30" monitor is already uncomfortably too big. and i cant imagine what FCP needs as far as software enhancements that would increase its cost to $10k - maybe a pci card with a boat load of ram dedicated to realtime everything??? (like the old ice cards)

I think if they are planning to release an extreme version of FCP for $10k+, you could bet that it will have some hardware involved especially if the idea is to compete with higher end avid systems.

I know for certain some of the rumours in the article are false. Totally and utterly.

Graeme



[www.nattress.com] - Plugins for FCP-X

Graeme Nattress wrote:

> I know for certain some of the rumours in the article are
> false. Totally and utterly.

*Some* of the rumors, Graeme? Which ones would those be, Graeme? Deduction being almost as good as supposition and all, Graeme.

<j/k>

Can't say.... (NDA)

But don't believe all you read there.

Graeme



[www.nattress.com] - Plugins for FCP-X

How about some factual information here??



When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Bigger than 30" display? Does it come with a wall to hang it on 25 feet away?

-CHL



Post Edited (01-04-06 15:16)

Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Instructor

Guys, lets not speculate true or false here. I can get in trouble. You can have fun with this thread but thats about it.

Graeme knows the $10k price is false of course. It's $90k.

You know how Mercedes has that iPod thing.

You get a Mercedes. With the flip of a switch the front windshield becomes a "heads up" monitor similar to those found in jet fighters. Hence monitor is much bigger than 30." Surround sound is built in to the car. Steering wheel converts to mouse when FCP is booted up.

Man emerges from car which has been pulverized in an apparent collision.
"But officer it was Media Manager"

Why even leave it then, Mike? The article is a bunch of crap.

"...System requirement rumblings point to a Quad G5 with dual Nvidia QuadroFX graphics cards to work with 2K or 4K media."

The use of the word "rumblings" is aggravating. Who in their right mind would use a Quad with Dual Quadro FX cards taking up all 4 slots?This guy's sources were probably drunk interns at a Christmas party.

Rumors $uck.

- Joey



When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

"The use of the word "rumblings" is aggravating. Who in their right mind would use a Quad with Dual Quadro FX cards taking up all 4 slots?This guy's sources were probably drunk interns at a Christmas party."

Mac rumors are always sketchy, but Think Secret is pretty tight actually.



- Justin Barham -

I liked the Airport Ultra rumour I heard from a blog the other day - wirelessly stream HD video around the office... or out of the edit suite and into the 'client' room.

>Who in their right mind would use a Quad G5 with Dual Quadro FX cards taking up all 4 slots?

Probably a company like the those that did the visual effects work on King Kong.

Anyway by the time the intel macs hit the stores it will be a new model number anyway..... something like the G.I.6

Sorry. But if you take a look at www.red.com it will give you an idea of what I might know and why I can't say what I know. Given they got all the Red stuff wrong and linked it to FCP, I can't believe there's anything remotely right in the FCP rumours either.

Graeme



[www.nattress.com] - Plugins for FCP-X

I thought Red is supposed to come in at under 20K


I'll believe it when I see it.

Right now I think this cam rocks my world


[www.grassvalley.com]

ok, where the hell have i been? whats this red thing? went to the site and it appears to be a camera that shoots 4kX...

what the hell codec/machine/storage system is gonna handle that for under major studio dollars???

am i missing something here?

Wayne, what you're missing is a whole raft of details that make it all very possible. The main thing is that the driving force behind RED is Jim Jannard, fouder and major owner of Oakley, and he's a complete camera nut, owning well over 1000 film/video/still cameras. He has the money and contacts to make this camera happen. He doesn't have an existing high end video camera market to risk canabising.

As Mike points out, the only other really innovative camera out there is the Thompson, and that's still just HD, not UHD.

Also, you don't have to shoot UHD 4k - you can downsample that to produce very superb 720p or 1080p. I can't imagine how good SD would look off this camera :-)

Hope this helps. RED will be at NAB, so drop by the booth and say hello.

Graeme



[www.nattress.com] - Plugins for FCP-X

well damn! and that can be edited in fcp with all my normal kit? im intrigued!

i think this info blows the pants off that fcp extreme ad 30+" monitor crap

Yes, I'm sure that the downsampled HD would be editable in FCP. This camera is designed to be a disruptive technology - a complete paradigm shift. I think it's going to be awesome.

Graeme



[www.nattress.com] - Plugins for FCP-X

"...Probably a company like the those that did the visual effects work on King Kong."

Uh...frank...did you read the article? I'm referring to a FCP Edit / FX rig, not a Visual FX rig. Totally different animal. You need the slots for an Edit rig.



When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.