FCPX 10.1.0 PRE-RELEASE DISCUSSION

Disproportionate Pictures wrote: I don't think there's any chance of messaging confusion here. FCPX and the MacPro are very targeted products for a select set of Apple's customer base- and won't conflict with the general Holiday marketing.

Completely agree with respect to FCPX and mostly agree (in theory at least) with the MP. As a practical matter, I'm not entirely sure whose attention they intend to get with the MP launch. I was pretty surprised (even startled) to go into movie theaters and see Mac Pro advertisements. Maybe it was all about the halo effect; but maybe it's a broader target audience than I would ever have guessed.

Russ

Concurred. There's a good synchronicity between the MP and FCPX, but as I've said for a while, considering that of the total FCPX user base, maybe 5% of will be using MacPros- perhaps they would have just been better to release it when it was ready.

IF that's the case, I guess the one consolation is that 10.1.1 would be that much further into development.

Not to get ahead of ourselves, but it would be nice to see another feature update before NAB.

In my time zone, prior fcpx updates came later.
I'm still hoping, for at least 2 more hours.

Dawar wrote: In my time zone, prior fcpx updates came later.
I'm still hoping, for at least 2 more hours.

Given that it's still only 8:34am in Cupertino I think we still have lots of time today.

Disproportionate Pictures wrote: Concurred.
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IF that's the case, I guess the one consolation is that 10.1.1 would be that much further into development.

There's nothing like releasing a 10.1 a day before a week long holiday for some and having a major issue and their support staff is a skeleton crew. If it's ready it should be out the door NOW before the MacPro and before their staff disappears for a week. At this point I'd have to say that personally, the timing for 10.1 is really bad especially if it's ready to go but they're waiting for MacPros next week.

If 10.1 ships today I've a horrible feeling it's going to have a 'make this damned music edit work' tool.

...or perhaps I've just been wrestling with this sequence in 10.0.9 for too long.

(I also bet it has a 'real time Neat Video rendering' feature, along with 'trimming a rendered clip by a few frames doesn't invalidate the entire render file' and a 'put the clip back in that the client demanded I remove, then insisted I put back, only now I've gone and lost the bloody thing' key command.)

If it doesn't come out at 1pm EST (10pm Pacific). I'm going to say December 31st. The last tuesday of the month.

"Hi, we're Apple, and we love pissing Ben off every Tuesday like clockwork."

JFilmmaker1 wrote: If it doesn't come out at 1pm EST (10pm Pacific). I'm going to say December 31st. The last tuesday of the month.

Partially agree, I say give it until around 1pm Pacific (4pm EST) since that was around the same time as the Mavericks 10.9.1 update yesterday. Then if still nothing, then maybe the 31st...

JFilmmaker1 wrote: If it doesn't come out at 1pm EST (10pm Pacific). I'm going to say December 31st. The last tuesday of the month.

I'd agree. Releasing next week before Apple staff is skeleton makes little logistical sense. Of course "Fall" will be "Winter" at that point.

I would guess February next year. I have a solid resource

The Apple website still says that both the Mac Pro and Final Cut Pro X are coming in December. That's a pretty solid resource too.

They did originally say "Fall 2013" right? Did that change? If they stick to that pledge, then it should be this week one of these days!

You would think by now that Apple would KNOW what date they are releasing it all, so it really wouldn't hurt to replace "coming in december" with "coming on December xx" now would it?

That would give us certainty. Apple likes to drive us into a frenzy. It's their M.O.

I can get in to just as much if not more frenzy knowing the date than not knowing it.

Then it truly doesn't matter if they post a specific date. Though I did notice that there is no new MacBreak Studio today, if that's a meaningful sign...

I think the precise reason why Apple rarely gives specific dates to these kinds of releases is because it gives them some wiggle-room.

While we can't say for certain- it would seem obvious that Apple wouldn't prefer to launch this late into December. If there is a delay, it's something (hardware or software) that's causing it, and a firm date would be problematic at this point.

Apple,

There must be a reason you torment us so.
Will it be soon.
should we....

Think different

Gabriel Spaulding wrote: The Apple website still says that both the Mac Pro and Final Cut Pro X are coming in December. That's a pretty solid resource too.

+1 on that!