Final Cut Studio Update Scaled Back and Delayed

Final Cut Delayed again

Final Cut Delayed again

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/30/final-cut-studio-update-scaled-back-and-delayed/


Hardmac reports that Apple's plans for a thorough overhaul of its Final Cut Studio have "suffered significant setbacks" that will see a release pushed back to 2011 from a rumored goal of a 2010 launch and result in significantly scaled-back changes to the professional-level video production software package.
A few months ago we told you that Apple were hoping to release a new version of their Final Cut Studio suite in 2010. It now seems likely that this target has been missed according to one of our sources. The development of this software suite has suffered significant setbacks and it will be necessary to wait until 2011 to see its release; furthermore, the scope of the project has been reduced.

According to the report, Apple has temporarily abandoned plans to bring a single interface to the Final Cut package as internal development teams have been unable to reach agreement on how the interface should be implemented. The interface overhaul has now been said to be pushed back to the following release of Final Cut, tentatively scheduled for a 2013 release.

Additionally, the report claims that the Final Cut team's progress has been slowed as Apple has reassigned engineers to work on projects for the company's iOS devices.
 
I felt a great disturbance in the Mac, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
 
a few days ago MacSoda posted a more favorable projection, and then Philip Hodgets explained why that was not possible. Here is FCPdaily.com's summary of that discussion.

http://fcpdaily.com/2010/09/rumor-mill-the-future-of-final-cut-pro-a-future-promised-but-when/

Well, we can be fairly certain now that Apple will continue development of FCP into the distant future…the big question now is “when”. When will a major update to FCP be released?

In the last few days two interesting posts have tackled that question — both with differing opinions about the “when”.

MacSoda asserts that “Final Cut Studio 4″ could come as earlier as January 2011 or at “NAB 2011, at the latest.” MacSoda claims major improvements to the next major update to FCP:

Previewing will be instantaneous. Long renders will be a thing of the past. The secret is that the new Final Cut Studio has been created to take advantage of multiple cores… so if you’re running on an 8-core Mac Pro, you’ll be thanking your lucky stars you stuck it out and didn’t switch to Adobe’s offerings.

Knowledgable industry veteran Philip Hodgetts wrote a well-thought out response to MacSoda’s projection. Hodgett’s thinks it unlikely that a release will happen anytime in 2011…and that we’ll have to wait until 2012 for the next major release:

It’s highly unlikely that the next studio release will happen in early 2011, or even 2011. As I noted in the comments on the article, it seems very, very clear that the QuickTime we know will get a complete foundation change. Final Cut Studio would need many of those changes to be able to replicate Adobe’s Mercury Engine performance (along with the need to be 64 bit Cocoa and use Open CL and Grand Central Dispatch).

MacSoda and Hodgetts’ site are both FCPDaily favorites. There’s a ton more info in the following links — and more detailed tech information — about the possibilities for the date of the next major release. Get all the details:

http://macsoda.com/2010/09/05/final-cut-studio-4-the-inside-scoop/
http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/09/final-cut-studio-4-the-inside/
 
mcgeedigital said:
Hi CS5.
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Let's see. CS5 gives you multithreaded heaven based on a few hundred dollar graphics card, and FCP will require multi-cored CPUs, which is cheaper? I need to speed up my post production and am looking seriously at CS5 as a way to get faster on more inexpensive hardware - total cost of operation will be less even with new software. Or AVID with that new UI that looks "so" good?
 
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philiplipetz said:
Let's see. CS5 gives you multithreaded heaven based on a few hundred dollar graphics card, and FCP will require multi-cored CPUs, which is cheaper? I need to speed up my post production and am looking seriously at CS5 as a way to get faster on more inexpensive hardware - total cost of operation will be less even with new software. Or AVID with that new UI that looks "so" good?
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As soon as the drivers for Matrox MXO2 come out for CS5 I will be definitely look at switching.
 
For me it's really interesting if they will add BD support for disc authoring. I don't care what Apple thinks what the delivery "will be" or "should be". I want to be able to produce BD discs without workarounds.
 
robertrogoz said:
For me it's really interesting if they will add BD support for disc authoring. I don't care what Apple thinks what the delivery "will be" or "should be". I want to be able to produce BD discs without workarounds.
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Ditto. Hello CS5 for me too
 
I'd rather have them push it back as long as they need to and get it "right" rather than try to rush out a half-baked, not-ready-for-prime-time update.
 
Hardmac, which is where the 'story' came from, is south of reliable, IMO. One reason for the delay is that the Shake team and the Motion team can't agree on a unified GUI? Really? Wasn't Shake EOL'd in 2006?

I'll take Philip Hodgetts' opinion on the situation over Hardmac's any day of the week and twice on Sundays.


-Andrew
 
adkimery said:
Hardmac, which is where the 'story' came from, is south of reliable, IMO. One reason for the delay is that the Shake team and the Motion team can't agree on a unified GUI? Really? Wasn't Shake EOL'd in 2006?

I'll take Philip Hodgetts' opinion on the situation over Hardmac's any day of the week and twice on Sundays.


-Andrew
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Either way the delay is significant. Philip suggests not until OSX 10.7. And that is at least a year out.
 
What's the deal with these countless version of programs????I've used MS Office '98 for years and I was very pleased with it- I didn't need any other version until recently when I upgraded to a new Windows version - I was horrified when I saw how much disk space the new version required and how slow it ran.
The newer the software is the higher the system requirements are and more useless features are included!
 
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