Part 1 – First Impressions Typical first impressions of Final Cut Pro X arrive when you import your footage, the Camera Import window defaults to your Mac’s webcam so you get a mugshot of yourself wondering where all the codecs are.
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Apple Insider reports that FCP-X is being readied for the App Store and will be released in the final week of June 2011. Slightly less highly anticipated but of just as much intrigue is that Apple are said to be releasing an as yet revealed Thunderbolt product alongside FCP-X. What could it be?
OSX Lion is to have an emphasis on a technology called OpenCL. OpenCL allows normal apps to take advantage of the programmable nature of GPUs (graphics processors) in modern computers. GPUs are more powerful than general purpose CPUs but until now have only been used to crunch through 3D graphics. The graphics chip has long since stood idly by unless playing games but now is about to have a lot more…
At the Vegas Supermeet, Apple today announced Final Cut Pro X, 64bit. It is an absolute revelation. With one click colour grading, Open CL and all new 64bit engine, no rendering, no transcoding, 4K support and able to take advantage of more than 4GB RAM for the first time, Final Cut Pro X has been rebuilt from a blank sheet of paper.
Above: Editing my footage – slowly Apple are said to be preparing a massive overhaul to Final Cut Pro, the biggest single change to the software since it was created 10 years ago. It’s said to include massive interface changes and a brand new 64bit codebase. TechCrunch say that Apple are conducting an internal beta program on the Apple campus with various video professionals testing Final Cut Pro 8. “According…
As some guy from Apple once said to a Pepsi CEO, do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life of change the world?
Or… 10 reasons why Apple desperately need new versions of Final Cut Pro and Quicktime
Tired of rendering the timeline and transcoding footage off a memory card in Final Cut Pro? CUDA is a technology from NVidia which allows a programmable GPU to act like a CPU (graphics processing unit) and now Adobe Premiere CS5 supports it.