Comments on: What about Final Cut Studio and Snow Leopard?

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:28:09 +0000

Snow Leopard won’t, by itself, speed up anything. It has new APIs that are easier to use, but software has to be rewritten to call those new API. So, don’t expect any speed up for FCP in Snow Leopard – rending or anything else. It won’t run any slower though.

Philip

By: Mike onlineTVad

Mike onlineTVad — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:27:06 +0000

erm…that’s 8 core… you can sense my technical expertise …

By: Mike onlineTVad

Mike onlineTVad — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:21:29 +0000

I switched to mac 18 months ago, I’d never used one before nor edited video – I’ve spent most of my time since then learning FCP and making tea while HD video renders.

This week I set up a striped Raid0 using 2Nr 1TB drives across the first 2 HD slots of my quad core mac pro (6GB RAM) – with a further 2Nr 1.5TB drives on the other 2 slots for backup and content.

It took a day or two to load all the apps and updates – I did it more for headroom on disc space than performance, and yes I know to clear down the old render files to trash. The performance improvement is negligible to me so far.

I shall be taking a similar approach with Snow Lepoard – setting up a dedicated HD to see whether Grand Central Despatch can yield access to the 64 bit mac Pro architecture and RAM for FCP Studio 2: it’s so frustrating that this 64 bit machine processes my work at 32bit and the top guy at the local mac retailer quietly said Snow Leopard will speed up rendering…..

erm…… Tally-ho…

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:09:20 +0000

I like the new codecs – that should please those working in high end workflows. iChat theater has it’s uses, but the really big one is that sequence markers now move when clips are deleted or inserted! Yay

Philip

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:08:07 +0000

I don’t think that’s smart, but you are obviously lucky and not stressing it.

Philip

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:31:51 +0000

And by the way I’m not stupid and I’m running FCP 5 with the latest version of Leopard. Doing occassional stuff of course but I’m not willing to pay for a new version if I don’t do video editing as my main activity…

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:26:40 +0000

So what do you think about the new version?
Because you manage programmers you know about programming? or because you have learned a little or something from them?

By: Jerry Hofmann

Jerry Hofmann — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:04:27 +0000

I should add something here… last month I did a bunch of training on a brand new tower 2.93 octo with 16 gigs of RAM.

This beast was so fast rendering using FCP 6.0.5, It felt twice as fast as my 8 core 3 gig machine aka 2007 (1st gen octo) runs… it’s so fast, just buying the machine will make you feel like you’re running a different app.

Jerry

By: digital dream/films

digital dream/films — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:19:52 +0000

but thank’s so much….

By: digital dream/films

digital dream/films — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:19:52 +0000

but thank’s so much….

By: digital dream/films

digital dream/films — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:18:27 +0000

take a year or two off…….for iphone….2011-2012

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:55:02 +0000

Go back through what I wrote in the main article. They probably realized they had to do the work when they learnt at WWDC 2007 that there would be no Carbon 64 bit.

Add 2-3 years to do the work, then 4-6 months to lock off features and build and test a release. Mid 2007 plus 3 years is mid 2010. All based on my guesswork and experience working with software development.

I used to think “they” should be a whole lot faster than I later discovered is realistic.

Look. I could be completely wrong. Apple may have done all the work ahead of time, and we’re just waiting for Snow Leopard for them to dazzle us. I’d like to believe, but I think, on the balance of probability, if they have a release this year, it’s unlikely to be Cocoa pure and able to take advantage of Snow Leopard features.

Anyone who knows can’t say, anyone who’s saying doesn’t know.

Philip

By: digital dream/films

digital dream/films — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:34:08 +0000

ps…when do you think it will come out….as you know they said not one thing at wwdc 09

By: digital dream/films

digital dream/films — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:32:31 +0000

wow, that’s very disappointing,,,,but did they not have two years or more to do it…..from 2007

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:05:06 +0000

Like everyone else I don’t know what Apple are doing for the next release of Final Cut Pro. They are always seeking to improve performance and have done so every release. However, on the balance of probability/timelines, it’s unlikely any of the Grand Central or OpenCL features from Snow Leopard will make it to the next release, unless they hold that release off for some significant amount of time. (Like 2010 or 2011.)

Philip

By: digital dream/films

digital dream/films — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:41:29 +0000

Philip are you saying we won’t see Faster performance in fcp 7…..I mean all you do now is render render render…..

By: Snow

Snow — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:41:23 +0000

Hi Philip,
Thanks for the great info.
Hopefully, more Snow Leopard tech will be in upcoming FCS3 than predicted…
Faster performance [64 bit], reliable, new features & interface polish [cocoa].

By: Justin B

Justin B — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:37:06 +0000

Thanks for the article. The timing is certainly interesting for FCP given its age and what’s going on with the OS pushing towards 100% Cocoa/Intel/64-bit, and the maturing of Core APIs.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see an interim upgrade (ala 1.25 or 4.5) at NAB 2010.