Re: Snow Leopard and Final Cut

Scott pretty much called it. It appears that SL doesn't provide anything for FCP7. Not only is FCP7 not 64bit, but it doesn't appear to be "Central Dispatch" aware either.

More to the point is that SL's QuickTime X doesn't seem to have all the functionality of our current QuickTime Pro. When installing SL, there is an option to keep QT7, which apparently we want to do. This seems to be a reoccurring theme here. Livetype is gone in FCP7, but you can keep it when upgrading. If you do a clean install you lose it.

Apparently, we will have to wait for another version of FCP to get 64bit and all the support we want under SL. The question is how long? If it took 2 years to give us the minimal changes in FCP7, I wonder how long for a complete rewrite... 10 years maybe?

Other have said it, but I think Apple would have hard pressed to call FCP7 a 6.5 release. Giving it a whole number increment for what amounts to fleshed out features to things we already has is pretty gutsy. Charging $299 seems even gutsier. We paid it because we needed markers to finally work and a couple of other small things. Didn't feel good about it though... and that's the first time I ever said that about any Apple upgrade...

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com