New Final Cut Pro 10.0.6 release

Apple has just released its latest Final Cut Pro 10.0.6 update. Some of the new features it includes have been demanded by users since the beginning of FCPX and it’s not clear if Apple is backtracking on their “revolution” or if these changes were always on their roadmap (although I can imagine what they would say).

Some of the new features in Final Cut Pro 10.0.6 include:

• Support for Red Raw, with the possibility of working natively or transcoding in background to prores. Heck, it’s true that Avid is late to everything, but I think that at this point supporting the Red Codec I don’t know if it can be announced as a novelty.
• MXF support. howrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr? Apple bowing to the standards of others??????????? But it wasn’t enough to put USB 3 on the latest laptops???? No, no, relax, you need third party software (plug-ins) to be able to use MXF. Just like with FCP7 and Calibrated MXF. Besides, who wants a capsule like MXF when there is such a good metadata transport as QT?
• New version of XML 1.2
• Dual monitors. Yes, yes, it seems that one monitor is not so cool. Although the thing is not very clear since apparently it is to be able to match shots (for color grading for example) but it can not be used with two timeline shots. So maybe it’s just a simple preview/program.
• It also seems to improve the multitrack audio editing in the timeline. As nice and clean as it looks just a clip with everything tucked inside in the timeline.
• And more news that you can see here

I’m sorry, why do I have to celebrate that a software incorporates “novelties” that are from the Jurassic? I have always criticized that Avid is late to almost everything (it took YEARS to support 720 25p) and I also found it a bit unbelievable when I saw in the Premiere CS 5.5 presentation the “novelty” of doing a video and audio synchronization from different sources (wow, an autosync) at this stage of the game. Why if for years people have been criticizing the (real) lack of update of Avid MC or Premiere Pro now I have to say Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh because a “professional” video editing software has the possibility to have two monitors. It’s like making a wave because a camera has a viewfinder….

The question is the same as always, just because Apple does it is the best of the best. Unfortunately I disagree, I think they do things very well done, like the iphone and MacBook Pro (with an excellent planned obsolescence also by the way) but I think their performance with audiovisual post-production professionals is simply disrespectful. They buy software from others, standardize them (pulling the price, of course) and then discontinue them when they have some other Ipad to deal with. No revolution, no excuses, throwing away Final Cut Studio (not just FCP7) and “starting over” with something that users have to learn from scratch (the program I mean, not editing, obviously) is disrespectful to your customers. I have no doubt that FCPX will have more and more functions (some of the ones it already has are simply very good) but it also has something since the first version: the mistrust of professionals, who have had their work tool changed without reason. And now what, I learn the new one so that in five years you can change it again? No, I don’t pick any more…

By the way, does it have something to do that FCPX consumes so many resources to the machine with the intention that we buy more powerful computers? Noooooooooo, Apple would never do such a thing to us….