Thursday, March 28, 2013

Apple Pushes Out FCP X Update w/ Sony XAVC 4K Support; Bigger Stuff Coming Soon…?


This is a brief excerpt from PhotographyBay




Apple has just updated Final Cut Pro X to version 10.0.8 and includes support for Sony’s XAVC codec used in its 4K cameras. The XAVC codec is used for 4K capture on the Sony F55. (Recall that I also detailed XAVC and the potential to use XQD cards to capture 4K XAVC footage in Sony’s new “consumer” 4K camcorder back at CES.) It’s a relatively minor update with additional support for the ARRI Alexa and some other fixes and improvements.

Along with the release of the FCP X update, however, Apple is nudging back at the pro market with a campaign to get us back on board the Apple video editing train. It is certainly no coincidence that NAB 2013 kicks off in a little over a week though.

Take a look at the half dozen success stories with pro users featured on Apple’s site now. These are eerily similar to the big coming out party for FCP when the 2007 story surfaced of Walter Murch cutting Cold Mountain on FCP. Yeah, these projects aren’t quite that big when it comes to industry noise, but real pros are using FCP X on big time projects.

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