Larry Jordan asks What the Future of Apple Final Cut Pro?

What’s the Future of Apple Final Cut Pro?

The great Larry Jordan shares his thoughts on Final Cut Pro and it’s lackluster updates, as well as lack of response to old bugs. Apple is just keeping it running and adding new features, but not really dealing with old issues.

I have posted my thoughts on Final Cut Pro before, and it needs someone to really take control and steer this program to a professional future, one that Premiere and DaVinci are well on their way to. And it is weird that their is not an attempt for Apple to push it’s Apple TV shows to use it, which really says all you need to know about it’s professional capabilities.

Seriously Apple $3000 more for an equivalently loaded Mac Pro over Mac Studio? WTF!

So the WWDC is over, and the VisionPro glasses cost $3500, WTF! But even worse is the price difference on the MacPro vs the MacStudio.

So here is the Mac Studio almost fully loaded, except only 4TB hard drive instead of a possible 8 TB.

And here is the MacPro for 10,599!

You have to be kidding. I do want expansion, but at the price, is it really worth it? Looks like a Mac Studio is in my future.

Apple Fooled everyone and released a new MacPro and Updated the Mac Studio to M2 Ultra as well

So in the last week it started to look like the Mac Studio would get updated with M2 and the M2 Utlra, and it did, but Apple also released the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, which seems to have the addition of PCI Slots and 2 extra thunderbolt ports.

I have needed a new Mac for a while as my iMac Pro is starting to show it’s age (and inability to clean it out), so one of these is in my Future, but which one, I don’t currently know. I need to look at the pages on the Mac Pro once I the web site gets updated after WWDC.

You can follow the WWDC Keynotes at MacRumors.

2 Extra Thunderbolt Ports and 2 HDI ports is great, though I wish there were more thunderbolt and USB ports.

Scott Simmons at PVC Reviews Final Cut Pro on the iPad

Review: Final Cut Pro for iPad

I still am not a big fan of Final Cut Pro, though I am an expert on it, so I doubt I will even try it out on the iPad, but some of the omissions do seem curious, like having limited color correction when DaVinci has full color (though missing the edit page, so you really can’t talk about DaVinci).

Still the fact that the already wonky Project naming schemes seems different here is literally insane. Just follow fucking industry standards already!

And no second storylines also seems pretty huge.

9to5Mac on LumaFusion adding a full multicam editor to LumaFusion for iPhone and iPad

From Fernando Silva at 9to5Mac.

LumaFusion is really the first normal video editing program on the iPad that works like AVID and Premiere Pro (Not Final Cut Pro) and it just keeps getting better and more powerful.

I have edited on it and it was well worth using, though of course I love keyboard editing the most, so the iPad will always be a second class editor.

Apple brings it’s Pro Apps Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to the iPad, but makes it subscription

Apple will soon be releasing touch based Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for high end iPads, but as subscriptions at $4.99 a month or $49 a year.

Logic will work on any iPad with an A12 Bionic or later and Final Cut will only work 5th or 6th gen 12.9 inch iPad Pro, 3rd or 4th gen 11 in iPad Pro or 5th generation iPad Air.

I love that Apple is finally treating the iPad as pro as other companies, but I hate that it is subscription. I would rather pay $99 for a lifetime than have a monthly fee.

The month free is great, but if I had the program I might use it, but paying monthly for it, unless i am making a living off of it. And sure it is cheap monthly, but I just don’t see any subscription that I am not making a living off of.

AppleInsider Reports on Apple acquiring AI-Powered video compression startup WaveOne

Amber Neely has the news that Apple purchased an AI Video Compression company.

This is of course for iPhones, as the technology is made to cut file sizes in half while prioritizing Faces and Text and de-prioritizing backgrounds.

Better video compression is always to be looked for, but I am assuming this won’t be like ProRES HQ or 4444, but more highly compressed, so likely won’t be a great editing compression.