Re: my guess to what will happen to the suite

[Craig Seeman] "At the very least it will remain that way but it seems possible they'll be integration at least with a common time line."
Hi
I think that is very much a "faster horses" way of looking at it ;-)
It seems that going forward it will be the core components of the OS (rather than separate applications) which will be handling everything - components like AVFoundation, CoreData, CoreAnimation etc etc.

All that is required of a new 'application' like FCP X or son-of-Motion etc will just to be a GUI interface to manipulate the basic media assets using the OS-provided toolset.
So everything can only be 'totally integrated', and as a 'timeline' will be a low level 'composition', defined by its own metadata, any GUI can work on it any way you want.
It seems to me? ;-)


Obviously they have got to 'make-this-all-happen', which may take a while.
Possibly until 2013 according to some rumours....