FCPUG Supermeet

so Michael, what was the big news from Apple?

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Bas Rutten

Great show and great fun. All the presentations were wonderful. No dog and pony and lots of great info. JVC announced a brand new cam that I can only describe as every Indy filmmakers wet dream. See here

[pro.jvc.com]

Blackmagic Design also announced 2 new Decklink Cards for $695 and $395 respectuflly

Decklink Studio

Decklink SD

First time ever world premieres were made at a SuperMeet.

Man, it was so much fun last night. Great city and crowd, in San Francisco. Wasn't an empty seat and folks seemed to have a good time and we all learned a lot.

NAB SuperMeet, despite all the doom and gloom talk will be even better.

Sounds like a great event! Did Apple mention anything about Final Cut Studio?

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Bas Rutten

Nope.

Typically Macworld is not the place for Apple Pro announcements

Man...Decklink is really showing it's teeth as an option for the budget minded. That Studio card is something else, and cheap!


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Here is more info on the JVC cam. There are 2 cams a coming. The ompact hand-held GY-HM100 3-CCD camcorder mentioned above and the 700 with 1/3 chips.

Both shoot to cheap SDHC cards.

[pro.jvc.com]

Michael, That new JVC cam isn't due out till April. Did they mention what the cost of the cam and the cards?

The SD cards are cheap and getting cheaper. Heck, there is little reason to wipe them. Just google. The 100 is under 4K. Don't know about the other cam yet.

The 100 has a Fujinon lens

very interesting cam and Fcp oriented.

its not clear in the doc if the lens has a never ending focus ring or a resisting ring with a stop when you reach infinite.

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> Nope.
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> Typically Macworld is not the place for Apple Pro
> announcements

What I was getting at was on the LAFCPUG web site there was an agenda posted that listed
Christine Steele, Bruce Nazarian, JVC and Apple. After Apple it said "The Latest on Final Cut Studio."

To me that implies that there would be news about Final Cut Studio. Was there any? Did Apple show up? I can assume by now that if Apple did show up, there was nothing of importance that they had to say or it would have been posted somewhere. I didn't expect FCS 3, but I thought that "the latest on Final Cut Studio" would mean some news. I'm sure it did help sell some tickets though.

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Bas Rutten

They don't say it explicitly but the specs mention 35mbps MPEG2 Long GOP. I've heard elsewhere that they ARE actually using XDCAM EX codec! Interesting given that JVC had previously announced a device that would allow JVC cameras to record to SxS cards.

BTW The Sony XDCAM EX cameras can record to SDHC too now.
[e-films.com.au]
has an adaptor called MxR.
I using it with two Sandisk SDHC Ultra II 32GB cards and combined get nearly 4 hours record time.

Yes, Stopedog. I also say\w that agenda on the site and am very confused as to why
no one is talking about ANY of those potentially interesting presentations.
Seems kind of weird to me...

Yes Apple did show up and the "Latest on Final Cut Studio" line was supplied by them not me. That said, those that pay attention know that Apple generally never make big announcements about FCS at a Macworld event. Even though a SuperMeet is not a Macworld event it is presented at the same time at Macworld, so you should never expect a big announcement on pro apps at that time of year.

Apple showed how to use the new JVC cam which is as simple as take the card out of the camera insert it into your mac, drag the files to the timeline. They now claim 1,250,000 FCP users world wide.

Bruce, Christine, M Dot Strange, Yun Suh, Eric Escobar all were brilliant and their presentations will be online in a few weeks.

There were 2 world premieres at this SuperMeet. The first time in our history. JVC and Blackmagic Design.

There is much more to a SuperMeet than a Apple presentation. It's about getting out from behind your computer and meeting other like minded people and sharing what you are doing. It's about learning more. It's not all about selling products.

If anyone is not talking about those other presentations it is because this is a FCP troubleshooting forum.

I agree 100% with everything you said. I didn't expect FCS3 (probably closer to NAB) but thought maybe they would release a 6.06 or something. The JVC and native QT files is awesome though.

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Bas Rutten