FCPX 10.0.8 PRE-RELEASE DISCUSSION

Yup. Today will be 82 days since the last update. Only 10.0.1 and 10.0.6 have had this long a interval time.

At this point, I'm thinking either 1 of 2 things- we get a minor 10.0.8 VERY soon, and a 10.0.9 preview at NAB. OR we get nothing until NAB and 10.0.8 is a big feature update.

I'm busy as sin, so the time will pass by quick either way.

Here's my guess. Apple will release a big update to FCP X and Logic to coincide with the launch of the new MacPro just before NAB as it will suck the life out of everything that AVID and Adobe do at the show.

This thread's updates always spur my eager attention, alas we all still await the revealing of whatever Apple has in store. The suggestions to fix the plugins issue, along with project sharing seem the most prescient, though time will tell.

On a side note, I was interested in Disproportionate Pictures' curious expression "busy as sin," which I'd never heard before. It's certainly thought provoking so I searched & found this well written article (though unrelated to FCPX).

Gotta say, I like Seanus' suggestion, hope Apple's listening.


Alright, back to the speculating...

FCPX is seriously a great tool compared to the rest and whatever they do can only make it better.... I seriously cant wait for the next update. I'm always anxious about it. Although I've been told by some that they wait a bit before they update - to make sure things are stable.

I usually finish up my current project and immediately update like fiend, what do you guys do?

What major updates are there? The only I can think of using the Event Viewer also for clips that are located in the timeline.

Or maybe, just maybe, it'll be 11. Yes eleven, or am I getting my hopes to high? :oops:

What people want for the next update has been covered in another thread so I don't think we need to do it all over again. Suffice it to say the list is substantial.

I too have been busy, but here in Oz we say 'Flat out like a lizard drinking' or my favorite: 'Busier than a one armed bricklayer in Baghdad'

which thread?

My grandad used to say "busier than a one-armed paper hanger." The paper in question being wallpaper (is that still used anywhere?), and you needed a big brush with glue and then how to hold up the wallpaper?

He also used to say "He's got a smile bigger than a wave on a slop bucket." And "He looks looks like the South end of a horse heading North."

He's was a hoot.

Sorry if we're getting off topic here, but I like that busy one armed bricklayer saying as they do cut your hand off in Bagdad, or at least they used to until the yanks took over. Now they just kill you all together with a drone strike.

When I was in the States years ago I heard an expression describing a deceitful man - "He's as crooked as a dog's hind leg."

Speaking of which, I notice one of the sponsors who used to advertise here a lot is now strangely absent...

I started to speculate on feature requests, but frankly I would be pleased to no end if they just fixed most of the irritating bugs introduced into 10.0.7. Long form projects can be painstaking with restarts, prefs trashing, etc., etc.

TrixTrax9000 wrote: Sorry if we're getting off topic here, but I like that busy one armed bricklayer saying as they do cut your hand off in Bagdad, or at least they used to until the yanks took over. Now they just kill you all together with a drone strike.

Gotta say; Iraq under Saddam was a genuinely peaceful place for the average citizen (unless you decided to get into politics, in which case your ass was grass). Crime was relatively low, women had equal rights, and there was no sharia law in Iraq under Saddam; the country had in fact perhaps the most secular legislation in the region.

With the collapse of the dictator, groups pushing a sharia agenda began to increase in power. The same thing is happening in Egypt and Libya right now (Gaddafi had zero tolerance against Islamic parties during his reign).

Essentially Dictators and religion don't mix. Its hard to say you're a pious man when you're swanning around in a fleet of Lamborghini's, drinking Champagne, gambling in Monaco, and eating caviar from a Ukrainian escorts belly button for starters every night.

Most Dictators also hate the plug-in glitches in 10.0.7, and hope that this issue will be resolved with the 10.0.8 update - or else!

Hahahahahahahahaha....

I'd have to say one change I'd like in FCPX 10.0.8 is to have the splash with a picture of that Ukrainian woman's belly button, instead of those swishy colors....

just to keep things on topic.

I am seriously laughing out loud.

Alot of good suggestions in this thread.

For me #1 without a doubt would be a "Snow Leopard" release, in other words, make it rock solid and remove all the bugs, most importantly the rendered frames glitch.

Apple actually had me send them project files mid-december to work on it, so I was very disappointed that 10.0.7 didn't fix it.

I also agree that collaborative workflow enhancements would be huge.

Something I have been thinking about would be an "App Store" for FCPX. You buy your plugins and effects right in FCP and you get the same 5 computers to use it on. If you send your project to an editor that didn't buy the plug in, they can still download the plugin so that your project doesn't break on their computer(like it annoying does now), but they can't add it to new files, ect.

Also, I'm thinking all the rough cutting pre work that is now done in the events would be a joy to do in an iPad/iCloud app with some super small h264 file format.

major Bug fixes, native bezier masking and tracking functionality would be my dream for 10.0.8

Either way it's still a delightful program to use.

I'd be shocked-nay, boggled, if Apple fixed all of the bugs in Snow Leopard.

I can't help but think when he said "Snow Leopard" he meant as a "cleanup" as that OS was to Leopard. Maybe I'm wrong.

Personally I think Snow Leopard support is going to drop soon. With OS 10.9 coming I can't see Apple supporting 10.6.x at that point. One of the big differences with 10.6 and newer OSs is AVFoundation. I suspect there's code in FCPX for 10.6.8 compatibility that might be dropped as Quicktime fades away.

No update again with 4 weeks to NAB. A minor update is seemingly increasingly unlikely to me.

At this point I'd guess that the release would be the Tuesday before NAB which is April 2. Maybe break with Tuesday and do it Friday April 5.

If this is going to be a small update with bug fixes and a few new features, I would like to see:

Secondary Storyline parameters in the Inspector.
Scale, X-Y position, opacity, crop and enable/disable options.

Attach a clip to a timecode
Instead of connecting clips to clips, let me connect them to the TC bar at the top, so they can stay locked at that position.

Individually drag-adjustable Timeline lane heights.

Create auditions from clips/storylines stacked over each other in the timeline.
This would make auditions more useful.

Open sync and Lock gang sync modes.
Timeline playhead matches the corresponding Event Browser clip frame and syncs/locks the Timeline playhead to the matched Event Browser clip Playhead.

True ramp speed effects.
Continuous gradual keyframed ramp speed timing changes rather than the four segment method that FCPX uses now.

Drag an effect
From the Inspector to a clip or selected clips in the Timeline or Event Browser.