Final Cut Pro X review

Jun 23

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Today I got hold of Final Cut Pro X. I couldn’t wait to fire this baby up, caress the new interface and start my video magic. With my 17″ MacBook Pro, i5 2.53, 4GB Ram and a Seagate hybrid I was sure to rock the house. riiiiiiiight.

I was greeted with the new interface of what I’d seen before – cool, I thought. but then I decided to take it for a spin. Imported a 4 minute video (didnt want to overload her with a full HD 1080 60min clip, so a 4min 720 seemed appropriate). By the way, before starting FCP I restarted my Mac.

The clip imported and soon the background rendering started. Cool. I then added a transparent PNG, and then a PSD. Overlaid some effects and hell it started to slow down quickly. I thought maybe its the background rendering? Nope. Any open apps? Nope. Then what? Its turned out to be that the new Final Cut Pro X is just a load of …..

After 2 hours with only a 4min clip and 2 pics. I was lost, frustrated and couldn’t believe how slow it had gone. The interface seemed fine at first but it became clunky and unusable. The effects are horribly slow. This is iMovie Pro and NOT Final Cut Pro.

Im sorry but I feel that Apple has made a disaster and they can see it. Many pro users are complaining as well. I for one am going right back to FCP 7 and Motion. People DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY on Final Cut Pro X !!!

To be more specific, here are my gripes:
1. Extremely slow
2. Clunky UI
3. Horrible timeline – stuff jumps all over the place
4. Too simplistically inclined
5. Cant open FCP 7 files
6. Slow effects
7. Background renderer re-renders too much – even when just a small piece of a clip changed.
8. Too much like iMovie and NOT an improvement on FCP
9. The Events manager is a disaster – too much iPhoto
10. No FC Server
11. Adding text and editing is horrible.
12. The effect manager panel cannot be moved (to a different screen)

Thats about it for now. I havent even done some Chroma keying, or colour corrections.

This is a huge disappointment.

WordPress for iphone

Jan 23

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Blogging has become the norm in our world today. More and more designers are using CMS like WordPress to design websites. I use WP as well and just love it. This post is actually a test from my iPhone 4 using WordPress for iPhone as well. Add you do is add your blog and you’re ready to go. You can upload photos and videos as well. Who would of though that you would be able to update your website directly from your mobile phone…. Apple did, hehe.

Posted from my iPhone 4

Aperture 3.0.2 released – bunch of fixes

Mar 25

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Face recognition in Aperture 3

I love using Apple’s Aperture for my photographic solution. You can download this update via the Software Update utility and it weighs in at 74.5mb. This release / update comes packed with a bunch of fixes. Some of which are:

  • Upgrading Aperture 1.x and 2.x libraries
  • Importing libraries from iPhoto or from earlier versions of Aperture
  • Importing hierarchical folders of photos into a library
  • Adding names and confirming matches in Faces
  • Reordering snapshots on the Faces corkboard
  • Creating and saving print presets
  • Duplicating metadata presets
  • Adjustments using Curves, Straighten and Retouching
  • Navigation of photos in the Viewer using scrolling
  • Importing ratings, color labels and GPS data from XMP sidecar files
  • IPTC metadata compatibility
  • Deleting photos when emptying the Aperture Trash
  • Exporting versions and libraries

If you have no idea what aperture is, checkout Apple’s Aperture website

Safari 4.0.5 update released

Mar 12

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Apple has released an update to their web browser Safari. The new version 4.0.5 is available from the Software Update utility but you would have to restart your Mac once the update has been done. This update is for 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 on the Mac side, and Windows XP/Vista/7 on the Win side.

The improvements are :
Performance improvements for Top Sites
Stability improvements for plug-ins, and for sites with SVG graphics and online forms
Fixes issues affecting settings changes to some Linksys routers and iWork.com user comments

There also reports of security updates in this release. The updates wighs in at 31mb but download sizes may vary depending on your system. You can also down Safari 4.0.5 via the Safari download page