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Interesting thread in Creative Cow
I really liked this informative comment about FCP:
[Peterd] "I think apple needs to completely overhaul media manager and possibly how FCP works with media altogether."
[CharlieX] "FCP would need to be re-written from the ground up to fix it's Media Management problems. It's a house built on the sand....
...maybe Apple should buy Avid. Avid has strong media management if nothing else. "
Hi
What Avid and Fast (now Pinnacle>Avid Liquid) introduced in the latter 1990s was a clip management strategy where captured clips were the total responsibility of the NLE, not the computer's OS. That way a rock-solid database would be available for 'media management', and Windows (or Mac OS with Avid on a Mac) was excluded from the process.
Apple rightly saw the limitations of this strategy - all data in such a locked system is eternally proprietary, and will carry an associated cost premium. With a Mac all data is managed by the OS, with freely available management tools.
But to drag Final Cut kicking and screaming into the 21st century, some such rock-solid asset database is essential. The Mac way of doing things means this has to be a shared responsibility, with Mac OS X being the main factor.
There seems to be signs that this development is under way... :-)
There are also signs that integrating Final Cut into all this is not a trivial matter, so it may be we'll have to wait for Leopard's successor for it to happen :-(
QuickTime, the OS X system component upon which all video on a Mac depends, also needs a rebuild. From its inception it has allowed variable frame-rates and frame durations within the same movie - this allows it to do slide shows etc.
But to work properly with an NLE where constantly variable frame rates and frame durations are not acceptable, due to sync issues, QuickTime has had to be kludged, variously by Radius, Media 100, and Avid, to give the stability that those NLE systems were renowned for.
Now, with Open Timelines, and the multitude of new frame rates and pull-down options that HD has introduced, there is plenty of scope for QuickTime's legacy architecture, in partnership with FCP, to screw up.
On top of that there is the necessity for transparent future-proof compatibility with MXF and other new-format video.
Because Leopard was delayed, QuickTime had to be prematurely upgraded to v7.2 to introduce Leopard-based core code, in advance of Leopard itself, so FCS 2 and iLife could work.
This has meant more opportunity for conflicts ;-(
Then there's the current security-issue scaremongering, which means that a new version of OS X and QuickTime are needed ever few weeks to repair notional security weaknesses... ;-(
There was a tiny rumour at the time of the big FC-Extreme/FCP6-at-NAB-2006 rumour, that reported that Apple had a second Final Cut development team working, independently and in isolation from the main maintenance upgrade team, to produce a completely new version of Final Cut Pro. Well rumours receive short shrift in these parts, but....
....wouldn't that be nice! :-)
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/962498
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Footagehead
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15/Dec/2007, 12:43 pm
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Re: Interesting thread in Creative Cow
That is indeed interesting...
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