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Seanus wrote:

See some of the banners at WWDC have simply a large "X". Hopefully this means the launch of Logic X, Aperture X and Motion X to coincide with the new MacPro.

It all makes sense now why last year Tim Cook said "...don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year." it was to coincide with Intel's roadmap of processors and the release of Thunderbolt 2.0.

I'm hoping it's along those lines and not just an X for OS X 10.9. Here's to wishful thinking!

At WWDC? I admire your optimism, guys... but it's OSX. The banners are for the two products they've already said were going to be in the keynote. iOS7 and OSX.

Yeah but one can dream...

9to5mac has a rundown of some surprises we might see next week .

The MacPro, FCPX, and Logic are mentioned.

As I've said before, I think a FCPX update next week will only come if it's tied to a hardware announcement like last year's Retina update. But I'm not worried. If we don't see anything, I don't think the update is far away regardless. I'd lay money it's less than 60 days away.

After announcing in late March their initiative to win back the pro market, I don't think they can go too long without another update. It's already been two months. Why lose momentum if you really want to try and win back that market?

I'm beginning to wonder about that report. If it was actually a Apple sanctioned article- or if someone was just extrapolating based on the update and the new IN ACTION articles. Strangest thing about that article was that there was no direct quotes from anyone at Apple. If this was a dedicated PR move, SOMEONE from Apple should be in there talking from Apple's perspective. Just seems very odd now in retrospect.

That said, Apple's update schedule is approximately every 3 months- so they're still on track as long as the next update comes out by end of June or beginning of July. It's a lot more often than any other NLE is being updated right now. Of course, there's more to do in FCPX too...

I think it really would make good sense to announce the new X Products that will run on Apple's new MacPro.
Build up the hype for the October release. I'm not confident there will be a FCP X update, unless there is some functionality it can take advantage of with Mac OS 10.9 Ocelot ...er Linx um... Sabertooth?

I'm not much one for internet memes, but I think the crowd would be howling if they [jokingly] introduced OSX 10.9 "Grumpy Cat".



And I'm literally on the fence about whether we'll see the MacPro. It's the only venue that makes sense-

Imagine, editing directly off of a thumb drive. The portable possibilities....

www.macrumors.com/2013/06/06/intel-shows...derbolt-thumb-drive/

Yeah, editing video directly from the thumb drive would be nice

Got close to that 5 or 6 years ago when I was cutting some small SD DV projects on site with a laptop and the footage on an iPod Classic.

Apple is streaming the WWDC keynote live from their own site! YAY!
www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/

Not totally unexpected, they've streamed their last 2 events. But good to hear.

Should be a good show. Something FCPX related would be a wonderful bonus, but it's way down on the probability list.

iOS7 and OSX 10.9 are a given.

Hopefully some big updates to iCloud to smooth out the developer issues.

After that a MacPro announcement is all I'm hoping for. Just to shut people up about it.

If they discuss the MacPro dual GPU support I suspect that will be tied to FCPX and/or Motion updates as that would be the hardware tie in. Again this is assuming that MacPro hardware will be mentioned at all.

Assuming the dual GPU support I'd be surprised if it weren't mentioned because this would be of significant import to software developers.

... and given how Apple uses software to sell hardware, encouraging developers to support dual GPUs would be very important to increasing demand or desire for MacPros.

I suggest that after the WWDC keynote (in ten minutes), a whole new thread is started about what we all think about it. Oh hell, I'll just start one now. Duh... idiot me...

HERE IT IS!
www.fcp.co/forum/2-off-topic/17132-react...c-2013-keynote#27059

I WANT TO MARRY THE NEW MAC PRO!

Still some questions to be answered. But it's very exciting. Am I wrong or did I see no traditional PCIe expansion. Leads to questions about what TB2's thruput capability is.

Looks like we will have to wait a little bit longer...

I'd be incredibly surprised if we had to wait for the Sept/Oct launch of the MacPro for an update to FCPX.

One paragraphs on the MacPro page states that,

Not only does it feature a state-of-the-art AMD FirePro workstation-class GPU with up to 6GB of dedicated VRAM — it features two of them. With all that power, you’ll be able to do things like seamlessly edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background — and still have enough power to connect up to three high-resolution 4K displays.

Sounds like true background rendering is coming to FCPX.

I'd also be surprised if we have to wait the whole summer for an update to FCPX. However the tag 'a new version' sounds like they could be readying a paid update (10.1?) to the app to go with the new MacPro.