Crazy Prediction: FCPX Studio?

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noam

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The release of 10.0.3 has really put things into perspective for me and solidified my choice to move forward with FCPX. I do use AVID and PP as well, but by far prefer X. I have just completed a feature film that I cut on PP (out of time necessity because it was shot on RED): http://vimeo.com/35599613. Although it served the purpose, I didn't love working with PP and my next feature, which is slated for fall 2012 will be cut on FCPX without question.

I could be totally off, but I was optimistically thinking about FCP X yesterday and wondering if we may see an "FCP X Studio" of some sort pop up in the future. If you think about it.. They already have some of the key components in place (Compressor and Motion), both of which they could have dropped along with color if they really wanted to. I imagine a year down the road from now, a new package could come out that might even include "Color X", which would be a trackless coloring system, based on FCP X. Probably drastically simpler than Color legacy, but potentially more powerful too. Time wise, it would make sense seeing as it would have likely been far too difficult to develop a new Color by the time X was released last summer.

Could just be wishful thinking, but I have to assume that at least the idea of this has been discussed by Apple's Pro team.

The more I work on X, the more I want to see it thrive. Everything else is starting to feel very rigid in comparison. I enjoy working more in X, am having fun editing again for the first time in over ten years. And that directly translates into better quality work.
 
noam said:
Although it served the purpose, I didn't love working with PP and my next feature, which is slated for fall 2012 will be cut on FCPX without question.
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You should really test that out first on a short before jumping completely into that. You do know you cannot work with Red footage in FCPX first of all (it has to be transcoded to ProRes).
 
It wouldn't be much of a jump technically speaking from what I'm using it for now.. I've been cutting on it since it came out and have completed dozens of projects on it including producing a 44 minute special.

Also, my next film will not be shot on RED. We are going with Alexa which will give me a ProRes 4444 file with a beautiful log color space straight out of the cam.
 
Possibly... but do they feel the need to compete with DaVinci Resolve or ProTools?

Perhaps more likely, I could see them bringing more powerful features into FCP X as one main app (better sound tools, like an audio frequency editor and some other tools that STP had; also better CC tools). And relying on plugins to add functionality.
 
Apple has been going towards integrating everything into one app, not providing a suite of tools like they have in the past.
 
Gary Huff said:
It's all leading up to the big red button you can push to do it all for you automagically.
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Way back when I worked in a corporate setting I made a joke in a meeting once that we could save time by using the Auto-Edit button. My boss had to explain to the owner of the company that I was a talented employee that thought used humor that took awhile to understand. When I said it the owner was like "Sweet! That should save me tons of money."
 
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