@halfmac @BradMowrey thanks this is very helpful for my recording at home classes.

2014 Mac Mini w/8G RAM and not even SSD, just the fusion drive from Apple, I can edit H264 plus extensive graphics with no issues. Animation gets slow, but animators know how to deal with that.

Fuck an Adobe. Premier is old news ruined by greedsters. Resolve is a better long term option until they also screw their user base. It's like hop-scotch.

I'm looking at FCPX because of the price compared to Premiere--how does realtime playback and editing of H264 compare to Premiere?

Final Cut Pro Intel version future

Note that from now on it is Final Cut ARM that will be main Apple product. Apple will also focus on optimization of software to run on big number of slow ARM cores and very limited mobile like GPUs (where shaders and other abilities are extremely restricted). Note that Apple notebooks will also face huge issue with memory bus and throughput, as even cheapest $50 GDDR5X GPU outperform Apple CPUs by wide margin.

Development team still works on Intel version, but it will be from 10 to 30% of previous resources. Development must mostly cease in 1 year time.

Rumors in the industry also are that we can see RED playing some significant role in the future of Intel based editing apps. As in 2 years it will be only top of the line desktop PCs that will remain on this architecture we can expect that RED can be sales agent and price will jump to the roof, typical for soft oriented on big companies.

The 15in MacBook Pro is the most commonly used model by video editors, according to Apple. These customers can expect up to 20% faster performance. iMac Pro users, meanwhile, will see a performance boost up to 35% compared to the previous version.

Each time I am reading such I want to ask - who wrote the previous "best" version and interface so it took up to 35% resources for nothing.

Final Cut Pro 10.4.6

• Detects media files that may be incompatible with future versions of macOS after Mojave and converts them to a compatible format.
• Fixes an issue that could cause share destinations to disappear from the share menu after quitting Final Cut Pro.
• Fixes an issue that could cause the workflow extension button to disappear when resizing the interface.
• Fixes an issue in which the Select Clip command could incorrectly select the clip beneath the playhead.
• Fixes an issue in which a successful share notification appears after the share operation was canceled.
• Fixes an issue in which frames saved to the frame browser in the Comparison Viewer may appear differently than they do in the viewer.
• Fixes an issue in which frequency information for Hum Removal may not be visible in the audio inspector.
• Fixes an issue in which relinked media may appear with black thumbnails in the browser and timeline.
• Fixes an issue in which the share menu may be obscured behind the viewer when using Final Cut Pro in fullscreen mode
• Improves reliability when sharing video to YouTube.

As part of the upcoming transition from 32-bit to 64-bit technology in macOS, you may see an alert in Final Cut Pro or Motion about legacy media files that won’t be compatible with future versions of macOS, released after macOS Mojave.

These incompatible media files were most likely created using formats or codecs that rely on QuickTime 7—an older version of QuickTime that is included in macOS Mojave for compatibility purposes. However, because versions of macOS after macOS Mojave will no longer include the QuickTime 7 framework, you’ll first need to detect and convert legacy media files to continue to use those files in Final Cut Pro.

Main FCP X team seems to be busy with new editor made for totally dumb, at least rumors are such.

As Apple is leaving professionals niche and preparing for low power and bad cooled ARM chips transition they need to almost fully abandon all legacy software (yes, FCP X is legacy list internally at Apple).

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Comic Book Effect in FCP X 10.4.4

@kellar42 As a FCPX user (mainly) the thing is that the magnetic timeline isn't always great for everything. It would be good if FCPX included a hybrid timeline, that allowed magnetic activities, but also standard NLE editing as well.

(I am aware that one can simply place a placeholder under the whole project, and then connect clips to that - effectively turning magnetic timeline into a standard timeline- but then we loose magnetic features)... cake and eat it to I think I want.

Right, so Apple have published some sort of API, which other developers and use to build integrated apps.

Most probably for sale, (or download) from App Store as a signed binary. Hence it will probably be complex for any community developers to use?

I know there was a great hack for FCPX that allowed scripting, batch export, advanced features. Would be really good to see this be able to use app integration.

Sorry, I'm lost at '3rd party apps' inside FCPX? Are these plugins? Is FCPX turning into the app equivalent of a vending machine?