[Andrew Richards] "I still like Philip Hodgetts' hypothesis, that FCP7 was going to be the 64-bit FCP, but that had to be scrapped when Apple did a 180 on 64-bit Carbon back in 2007 prior to releasing Leopard. "
I've thought that all along. The abrupt canceling of 64 bit Carbon caught Adobe by surprise and resulted in a long delay before 64 bit CS finally arrived on the Mac... after Adobe had to start over and redo everything in Cocoa. Given Apple's secretive approach and lack of communication, it isn't hard to see the FCP team (a small and largely ignored group) getting caught in the same way.
When this announcement was made, I predicted that this was going to delay any meaningful updates to FCP. I sure would have liked to have been wrong on that one...
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." - Winston Churchill
