• Apples Final Cut Pro X Fiasco Means Adobe's Video Tools For Mac

In fact, it’s not even on the level of Final Cut Pro’s built-in color tools. Yet, LumaFusion does feature basic color management features, which is pretty incredible for an iOS app. Aug 28, 2017 - 'New versions of Apple pro video applications — including Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 — are compatible with macOS High. The struggle within most shops that invested in Apple’s Final Cut Pro is whether to stay put a while longer, adopt Final Cut Pro X or cut the cord and move on. For many this means shifting to the Adobe Production Premium bundle – part of Creative Suite. Most of the editors and facilities in my.

Photo by Apple has revealed that its aging-but-beloved video editing program, Final Cut Pro 7, will not be supported by macOS High Sierra. If they update Apple's upcoming operating system, existing Final Cut Pro 7 users who want to continue using Final Cut for video editing will be forced to transition to. This puts video editors who use FCP 7 in a rough spot.

If you don't update to the latest macOS, you might expose yourself to security risks; if you do, you'll be forced to adapt your workflow to Final Cut Pro X, which many professionals are less fond of., Apple has started to notify Final Cut users about the change in an email that informs users that they'll need to upgrade to newer versions like Final Cut Pro X, Compressor 4 and Motion 5 ASAP. 'Older versions of Apple pro video applications — including applications in Final Cut Studio — will not launch on a computer running macOS High Sierra,' reads the email. 'New versions of Apple pro video applications — including Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 — are compatible with macOS High Sierra. You can purchase these applications on the Mac App Store.' Final Cut Pro 7 users who are interested in making the transition to the newer version are being directed to. Apple has also published for Final Cut Pro 7 users who are switching to X. I wonder how many loyal apple users of an excellent program will be forced to not upgrade?save fcp7 from being disabled on their systems?

Or engage in new partition structures to compartmentalize avoid apple killing their workflow by not allowing fcp7 on a new os just to upgrade to the latest os means being forced to fcpx im sure there night being compelling reasons to migrate away for a 7yr old piece of software.but im troubled by apples tactics to advance a specific corporate agenda things like this stunt to force a behavior on their users its troubling how much this reminds by of the headphone jack removal debacle or abandonment of all legacy connectors in the latest laptops, to the torment of their loyal user base. At least the honest ones i think apple has way too much power over its users as a modifier of behavior & software choice. Its sad, as the apple os is excellent and the hardware solid & dependable oh well sane counter arguments welcome.

I would counter that Apple has no power over anyone who doesn't choose to be subject to that 'power'. There are many great solutions out there. I see going with Apple as going with a system that will change.

I happen to like change and see it as an attractive element of the Apple system. Having said that, I do mitigate against issues with change by lagging behind major OS or software updates by several months for resources used on current projects. I don't know how the old headphone jack has lasted into 2017 on digital devices anyway.

It was invented a very long time ago. The original is from 1878, several decades before the end of the 'steam age'. FCP X works great at this stage. They added back in features people missed in the initial release, with a lot more besides.

It was a brave move to rewrite the whole application from the ground up, especially as they couldn't deliver a copy of the FCP 7 on launch. But I think it was well worth it.

If FCP X doesn't appeal to you, the latest Davinci Resolve 14 is excellent and affordable too. Definitely recommend looking at that one, as it is no longer just for colour grading pro's. Whatever way they go, people need to move on. The third party plugins have almost certainly been updated years ago now too. For those people who couldn't care less I am assuming that they don't use it! I've been a professional editor for 33 years and cut two films on it last year.

It's still great at lots of things and, because the quality isn't an issue if you are using 1080 or below, it could go on for a long time yet! I also use film cameras and would never say that they were obsolete just because Minolta or whoever stopped servicing them. I will keep one of my Macs on the current software. Everyone else upgrade away. Here in america we call that a dual boot system. Its how i have linux mint and windows 10 with a windows 7 skin on the same computer laptop perhaps its different with an apple os in any event, here is what you actually said: 'Back up your hard drive, create a new partition for FCP7.'

I dont use apple but that alone would not accomplish anything alone. You would need to keep an older 'FCP7 friendly' apple os active on that partition that youve created. You never mentioned at first.

And i wondered for a second if apple had a secret sauce where a simple partition could achieve keeping FCP7 a working program it is not hard to understand at all, your description left out an essential step.i think. Can a simple backup of another os coexist on another partition without a dual boot menu structure with an apple computer? Not using apple products. @ Cosinaphile - Actually that was another user who 'left bits out'. Mac users would understand what they meant or if they didn't (but was important to them) could probably do their own research. 'In the states' then I guess you don't have more than two operating systems, if it is only called 'dual boot';) But yes, you can have many many boot partitions on a Mac, the only real requirement of such is that they are formatted as a boot drive.

This can occur as simply as cloning the drive to another partition or drive. The system has the ability to choose different boot drives (including Windows) or selecting different boot drives on startup (by holding a key at power on). You don't need to install any additional software.

So backing up your drive to a different partition with FCP7 is a fairly valid option. It is quite simple and doesn't require any futzing with license keys or Microsoft locking you out. What you say makes perfect sense but few people beyond specialists would have 3 or more OS`s booting options on a single machine so, dual boot as a name kind of stuck. Im guessing.like hoovering the carpet language is a funny thing. Of course you can boot from anything during a boot loader sequence you can even specify in the bios with certain machines to say boot from usb or cd, etc from hoetogeek: 'Most computers ship with a single OS, but you can have multiple operating systems installed on a PC.

Having two operating systems installed — and choosing between them at boot time — is known as “dual-booting.”.' Yes I suppose you are right, Americans do call these things often by brand, such as hoovering or 'can I have a Kleenex'. In the rest of the world it's vacuuming and tissues. A common setup for a professional using a Mac might be to have the latest OS (often buggy and incompatibilities) on one partition, a known stable setup for professional usage and perhaps a Windows boot for alternate software (such as accounting). Obviously not every consumer is going to do this, but then again FCP7 stalwarts are not regular 'consumers'. Most major OS updates (and application updates) on professional platforms such as NLEs and audio production environments need to be vetted first and once operating smoothly should not be tinkered with for some new safari features and Siri integration.

Well arent you special? What a delightful contribution youve made!! Im sure reading that some don't use apple products causes you a religious anguish.lol if I thought it would do any good i would tell you.

Jf69 that your little sniper attack here against me is the kind of ignorant hateful and pointless attack that diminishes dpr and the general tone of discourse that civilized people try to enjoy here, In spite of the tiny annoying voices like yours above.and pathetic one liners they contain. But it will do no good at all.

And you'll roll by again like a delinquent with a pea shooter.when taking a break from call of duty or skateboarding, or twittering,or shooting snap chat content with your iPhone 5.so i won't. Nothing is more clueless than your failure to understand that posting a comment for no other reason than to attack and disparage a dpr poster at this site is senseless mean spirited counter productive and adds nothing to the discourse but your own venom and anti-socialness do you even know what a troll actually is?? Because the only one present here is you. By you every post. And with each new venomous.hateful.and mindless., information absent post. You dig a deeper 'troll hole' for yourself.

You obviously have anger issues. Take em somewhere else your hate speech isnt need here.at all. You are simply harassing me at this point.

The is clear to the thousands of people who peruse these articles.who are reading my posts about operating systems apple partition strategies the qualities of british and american english etc. Many of whom are moderators. Clearly, you are someone only here to create discord and pursue harassment and nothing else. You have not in all your posts here challenged any points.

Added a valid opinion. Or offered a constructive thought. Only harass all you do is dig a deeper troll hole for yourself and show your self as a dpr poster with a mindless obsession to follow my posts and attack me its beyond unhealthy for you and a waste of time for me i suggest you grow up, and pursue meaningful discourse instead of mindless hate find a thread where you know something of a subject and can post intelligent constructive posts. Cause clearly. It aint happening here. Ive called you out 3 times to say something besides your mindless attacks & hate speech. But the woeld sees what youve got & its nothing i would guess you have no highter education live in a pocket of anerican poverty somewhere between ny & calf, shoot with an old iphone purchased to boost you sense social value and are a trump voter here's your chance.how many did i get right?

You seem to have the character of an angry bully.and every single post in this thread was simply a personal attack. Nothing else nothing else. Why not private message richard butler and share your posts, share your endless hate with a moderator to gain perspective on your behavior here you seem incapable of grasping.just how many rules of conduct you break with you endless repeated attacks.

Im not surprised by this. You seem a very lost and angry soul people like yourself seem so threatened.

Got anything besides mindless personal attacks up you sleeve???? Cosinaphile you may play the victim all you want, it's you who's harassing others in threads, on issues you yourself admit have absolutely no clue about. Try & learn how to interact with other human beings (in a decent & polite manner, not your usual self); here's a starter tip for you: before engaging in social discourse you first must know what you're babbling about; & if you get called out be HUMBLE kid, you must not lose your mind in a hate-filled rage like you did in your reply, nor should you let your barking mad attitude let loose into racist, stereotyping vitriol (you didn't even get one right, such is your ignorance on human affairs). You want to try and reverse what youce done in the last five posts your endless unprovoked attacks youve launched against me???

Apples Final Cut Pro X Fiasco Means Adobe's Video Tools For Mac

To all the other observations I've made about your endless hate speech?????????? I can now add hypocrite to the list of you pointless quest here please go away and find another outlet for your mindless hate and personal attacks you continue to break all the rules of conduct at dpr have you been contacted by the moderators yet? I genuinely hope they are monitoring this exchange. I've had Final Cut Studio on my Macs for quite a while but only because I need to use DVD Studio Pro. I've been happily using FCP X exclusively for about 4 years and it has steadily gotten better and better. And the price is quite reasonable - especially compared to what Final Cut Studio use to cost! Does anyone know of decent software that can replace DVD Studio Pro though?

Adobe doesn't sell their product for that purpose anymore and I want the control over the menus and such that DVD Studio Pro has. If you don't have high speed internet (i.e. Most of the United States!) and don't want to pay the fees involved to put your videos on Vimeo or the like, DVDs are still an important distribution media.

As both Apple (DVD SP) and Adobe (Encore) have EOL'ed their mid-tier DVD authoring offerings, the only viable options – apart from iDVD-like low-end apps – would be Vegas DVD Architect or Scenarist (SD), none of which run on OS X, though. But both probably could be used with BootCamp.

So, reiterating the above recommendation: Keep a Mac w/ Sierra (or with a separate Sierra system partition) – which will get security updates at least until the OS X release after High Sierra, maybe re-download and archive the Sierra Installer from the Mac App Store for safety and keep on running DVDSP. So, there are paid/free alternatives to FCP and CC Cloud.

AVID First - Very powerful, industry standard, and you can get your union job knowing just this. Davinci Resolve free - Started as one of the industry color-correcting software, then recently added video and sound editing. Very powerful for color work, and with video/sound added, not bad at all. Hitfilm Express - Started as one of the popular compositing/effects software (think laser beams, gun blasts, 3D spaceships, etc), then added video editing. Fun for effects, useful for those adding such to their films.

Vegas Video and the consumer version Movie Studio. Been around a decade, started off as a music editor, then added video, powerful, recently Sony sold it to Magix. Edius, Powerdirector, etc, etc. I'm using Resolve 12.5.6 at present as 14 beta 3 did nasty things to my computer, but I really want (well, strictly need) to use one of the cool things in 14 and so am debating being brave with beta 8, which just came out.

Alas you can only have one version on your computer. I find it a good editor (I did a short free course which pointed out a few things I've missed) and actually it's very easy to get started once you get your brain round a couple of things.

For free I think the feature set is very reasonable (plus the paid version isn't extortionate). BTW if you know any way to speed up slow-mo footage by averaging frames together I'd be very interested? (As otherwise the fast shutter speed makes it very jumpy). Okay, everyone step back and drop the FCP!!

Y'all holding Obsolete there! Can't even handle 4K+ video editing! Why not try free instead? AVID Media Composer First - the free 4 video track version of AVID Media Composer, which is THE HOLLYWOOD Industry STANDARD video editing software?

After all, if you ever want to get the $200k+/Year union editing job, you'll want to know AVID so well you can edit sleeping. Joke - a handful of Hollywood feature films, none of them breaking $500 million, probably not even $300 million. Ditto when it comes to Hollywood blockbusters. 99% of the Hollywood films released in theaters today that mean anything. Now, aside from Avid, yes, many go for Premiere/CC Cloud because it's integrated and comes with Photoshop, After Effects, and most everything else an independent/short film maker would ever need. But, you have to pay $20/month+ forever. '.which many professionals are less fond of.'

Has the author or any of the commenters actually used Final Cut Pro X 10.3? It's amazing. Take a Linda.com tutorial, or check out a 10.3 video on YouTube, and find out for yourself. It's a radical departure from traditional non-linear editing, but for me a welcome change.

I am a full Adobe Creative Cloud customer, and Premier is the only software component I DON'T use (using Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Audition, etc.). Folks were likely upset with the initial X release, and believe me there's a huge difference between 10.0 and 10.3. @tinternaut - tell that to my work colleagues. I'm a 1 in 100 Mac user at work, and all my colleagues lost a whole work-day (some more) with the last update on their Surface Pros. My MBP (which is totally compromised due to no touch screen, apparently) and iMac both did theirs flawlessly, and I lost no work time whatsoever. I didn't even notice it on my personal iMac as it was completely done in the background, and even my work MPB took just ten minutes. And my colleagues were also interested in how my MPB screen is so clean.

Quite the contrary. Macromedia was forced to sell KeyGrip (which became Final Cut) because it was Microsoft who refused to allow them to use MS video coding to work with Apple's QuickTime, so Macromedia couldn't even release the app at all without breaching MS licensing. Apple only bought it because there were no other buyers for an app which Microsoft was essentially ensuring was dead in the water for any third-party buyers or users.

And you want to use Microsoft because you think it's Apple who are out to strangle users. PC argument is old and boring, even more so now that it's easier than ever to install OS X on a 'Windows PC' via Hackintosh. I've owned and used both, prefer OS X for laptops due to the excellent trackpads and gestures. I'd be perfectly happy using OS X on a desktop full time but ultimately I play games and I'd rather not have to keep rebooting into Boot Camp to play them (as OS X gaming is sparse). PC makes more sense, and for the most part the applications you'll be using are multiplatform so who cares? Building a PC is definitely better value for money. You can build an extremely powerful PC for the price of a desktop Mac but that requires more know how than a lot of people possess, so paying some more for a Mac isn't a big deal to them.

IMacs come with excellent screens, too. For me I'll stick with my custom PC and iPad Pro, if I was to buy a laptop again it'd be a ThinkPad or a MacBook Pro (with regular USB ports, thank you!). Those two product lines are great.