Re: Final Cut Pro 7 wishlist

[David Roth Weiss] "Apple is going to have create a truly seamless workflow for Color as well as the entire suite much like Adobe has now, otherwise it will soon be left in the dust. Apple simply can't expect its one million users to keep performing inefficient workarounds forever. "

Of course this leaves out the fact that Color was first created for UNIX by Silicon Color and never even intended for video color grading or the Mac for that matter. It was designed for film and to compete with daVinci with a reasonable $25,000 price tag.

Then it was ported to the Mac with limited support for Quicktime. Now what Apple can do on the back end to suddenly make it talk directly to a video editing application that it was never designed to talk to, and support all the codecs it can use I'm not sure, but I don't expect that it will ever be completely seamless unless Apple completely dumbs down the application.

I don't mind the "inefficient workarounds" for the amazing results I get in Color. The workflow is one reason I still don't understand why Apple included the app for free in Studio 2. It's something that actually requires the end user to really think about their workflow BEFORE they start to edit. Not everyone wants to do that so we get a lot of people who complain it doesn't work like any other App. That's because it not LIKE any other app.

The workflow between Color and FCP is miles ahead of where it was three or four years ago when I started using Final Touch and it's a very easy workflow. The only big area I really want to see addressed in Color is support for more codecs natively.



Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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