Re: DaVinci Resolve 8.1 -- now with FCPXML roundtrip support

[Jeremy Garchow] "And if it is? So what?"

As Walter kindly pointed out on my behalf, my point was to try and establish that the development cycle for FCPX has seemingly already been a fairly lengthy one ...

And this being so, the pace of that development seems less than encouraging.

I am an enthusiastic fan (yes, I can be a fan too!) of the relatively new 3D application called Modo. It's made by what appears to be a pretty tiny company that just happen to be passionate about what they do - and who incidentally are making a genuinely outstanding and beautifully designed product. (I have no financial or other interest in the product or the company.)

With their relatively limited resources they manage to turn out major updates pretty much once a year and the latest version (Modo 501) released last Xmas is currently on its fifth Service Pack - yup, that's right SP5!

With the greatest respect to the technology and design behind FCPX, I find it hard to believe that it is as complex a product to develop as a professional level 3D package (I speak from total ignorance, of course).

My point, which I have finally arrived at by a circuitous route, is that I don't see Apple working at this sort of rate of development with this product. Conversely, I do see a company like Adobe pushing the barriers of what is possible in ways that are truly breath-taking ... for example with innovations like this:







Granted FCPX is new and controversial but is it really as technologically ground-breaking as the ideas that regularly come out of Adobe?

OK, so FCPX is going to move on and we may well not have seen the half of it yet - but is it really moving fast enough in today's world?

Heck, I don't know - just posing the question ...

Simon Ubsdell
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