Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:32 am
Hello,
Just sharing my experience with FCPX, DVR and Apple.
30 years using quite exclusively Apple, 20 years using FCP and FCPX, 5 years using DVR.
DVR has some problems, as any software, but the BM team is very involved to solve it with a great curiosity about what is it to be an artist/professional/creator working with image and sound.
When Apple bought Shake, I began to learn it, enjoying it and Bam! no more Shake.
When Apple introduced Colors in FCP Studio, I began to learn it, enjoying it and Bam! no more Colors.
Coming from photography, I adopted Aperture since the begining, with all my collection inside it and Bam! no more Aperture and now, since three years, I struggle to maintain a Mojave MBP only because I have to return to Aperture for some informations on pictures. Apple never try to facilitate the transition to Lightroom, only saying Photo was the great succesor.
When Steve Job was alive, the ecosystem of creators was very important form him and his staff, putting creation stories in front of the Apple website. Now we are only a small marginal historic "faire-valoir" to the shiny iPhone brand.
For many reasons, mainly 3D with Houdini and TouchDesigner, I begun to buy Windows machine and I discovered that OS obsolescence is not mandatory and that you can continue to use an old forgeted software on a brand new machine. Windows is not very fancy but it works and its rock solid.
So, beside the + and - of every software, I am affraid that for any good or bad reason, Apple can throw FCPX and Logic Pro out of the boat. The public of sound and image creators is so thin for them in term of financial view.
BlackMagic, with all their problems and tricks concerning updates etc. is dedicated to us because we, as creators, import them. We are at the core of their brand, they need us. I am not sure that Apple needs me any more.
Perhaps the new M1 processor can be a way to a reborn as the phenix, but as they use daVinci to promote it, I have some doubts about the future of FCPX.
Knowing that, I decided 2 month ago to buy a Windows machine really dedicated to DVR, with processor, graphic card, SSD and raid adapted to my workflow and all is working perfectly with the 17.1. At the moment I work on a project with 30 hours of interview, 4 cameras multicam (iPhone 4K, BMPC 4K, GH3 HD, GH4 HD), 6 soundtracks, directly with the native codecs and all is working smoothly.
For me its not the moment to come back to FCPX!
Please apologize my poor frenchman English.
Jacques
W10 Ryzen7 3800X nVidia 3090 RAM 64 DVR-Fusion Studio 18.6.5 SSD 2To raid0 32To (HD) raid0 8To (SSD)
MSI G65 W10 / RAM 32 nVidia 1070 Intel Core i7-8750H DVR Studio 18.6.5
MBP 15" (2012) OS 10.14.6 RAM 16 nVidia 650M Intell i7 DVR Studio 17.4