[Frameworks] FInal Cut Pro X

[Thomas Dexter]

Hey,  I thought this was the experimental film discussion list. Have
professionals infiltrated our ranks?  Show yourselves! Ha ha ha...
On Jun 28, 2011 12:35 PM, "D Dawson" <decodawson at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> Well, yes and no. Apple does own quicktime, but it has become so prevalent
> in the professional world that, what are you going to do? Get stuck in the
> dark ages because it isn't an open format? You may be suspicious, but like
> anything, Apple makes money off of its developments. They can invest
> millions of dollars into developing new codecs, it is harder to find that
> kind of research and development with open source material. I mean NASA is
> closed source as well, but although I might want to go to the moon, I
don't
> really have the research and development dough to make that happen. China
> and Russia have alternatives, but until Billionaire Branson spends his own
> dough on an open source spaceship, I am willing to use Quicktime for its
> advancements.
>
> With FCP however, you can export to whatever you want. Export to Qtime,
> then convert it to AVI, or MPEG4, or FLV, or an Image Sequence (TIFFs) or
> whatever. You aren't stuck with a master that is only in Qtime.
>
> Just like Photoshop is proprietary, so is FCP/Qtime. You save your final
> version to whatever you'd like, you just can't save your "work" in
anything
> put the original proprietary format.
>
>
> FCP X is not YET compatible with FCP 7. Yes they have said they are
working
> on a conversion process. No I highly doubt there will be a loss in quality
> in the conversion, there is no need for one. Your files are your files,
> like your pictures are your pictures, it merely references the original
> material. They are working on a conversion to restore your edit decisions
> from one to the other.
>
> If you started a new FCPX project today, you could use all of your old
> footage, you just couldn't bring up your FCP7 the edits.
>
> Deco
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> On 6/28/11 11:19 AM, "Fred Camper" <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:
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>> Deco,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick answers, but not every media program can open
>> Quicktime, right? Is this open source, or does anyone who wants to
>> incorporate it have to pay a royalty to Apple? If the latter, I would
>> be very suspicious. I thought avi was more open.
>>
>> I thought Apple has said that FCP X is not compatible with FCP 7,
>> hence no importability. Are they actually planning to issue a
>> converter? Won't there be losses in the conversion?
>>
>> Of course I know about PhotoShop's proprietary format, and others that
>> other programs create, such as cpt. This is why I save final files as
>> tifs.
>>
>> Fred Camper
>> Chicago
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