Steve Jobs: Next Final Cut Pro Will Be “Awesome”

John Brownlee ()

Steve Jobs: Next Final Cut Pro Will Be “Awesome”A recently chatty Steve Jobs has once again rattled off a personal email on his iPad, this time to an Apple fan worried that Cupertino was ignoring Final Cut Pro.

Customer Alex J wrote to Jobs:

Getting worried about Apple’s interest in Final Cut. Last updates were not stellar. I heard a bunch of engineers were dropped too – give us a sign you still care about Pro Video, not just the iPad.

Jobs typically terse but surprisingly good-natured response:

We certainly do. Folks who left were in support, not engineering. Next release will be awesome.

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“Awesome?” That’s all well and good, Steve. Just assure us that the next Final Cut Pro will be bodacious, tubular and radical as well.

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  • Marco

    I really hope it will finally support AVCHD 1080/50p format !

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    May I ask what Steve is holding in that picture please?

    At first I Thought an Apple Remote, but it isn’t the right shape, and wouldn’t be around his neck???

  • Pieter Hoogland

    That’s an iPod.

    Hope FCP update will do something on stability over the network (specially those f#$@ thumbnails), work on Compressor so that you can actually use it (with more than 10 files). Log and transfer with your own dir structure.

    Do you want more?

  • charli

    my boss is still pissed about Shake being dropped. some features appeared in FCS but not all. if they came back with a new version of Shakes feature set completely covered he’d be thrilled.

    he’d also love seeing the the SDK for itunes Extras and LP in the suites. change DVD Studio to more of a Media Studio. some BR mapping for those with an external wouldn’t be bad either, but we do more online stuff so that’s what he’d like to see.

  • A Little Bird

    I can tell you with 100% certainty that engineers were dropped. Not a small number, either.

  • Mar

    I would like to see it come with a new Shake. Concentrate more on the real post pro people rather than the YouTube hacks. A fool proof filing system so we don’t have to reconnect the media when you load it from someone that doesn’t know how to share projects would be a flipping amazing idea.

  • Oscar Goldman

    “Folks who left were in support, not engineering.”

    THAT IS UTTER BULLSHIT. The fact is that 25-30% of Pro Apps was laid off, with equal representation from engineering and support.

    Employees understand business decisions. It may not be convenient, but when handled well, there’s not much to complain about. Up until now, that’s been the case.

    BUT LYING ABOUT IT IS CROSSING THE LINE. Jobs is lucky that the people let go are professionals who have chosen not to divulge much. But lying about what happened is asking for further disclosure.

  • Triffid Baxter

    Oscar Goldman is correct. As one of the laid off employees, I can attest to the fact that there were definitely engineers let go. Jobs is LYING.

    But Jobs is not lying about the next version of FCP being “awesome” — that is, if you consider iMovie to be awesome.

  • RAHUL

    hi i am Rahul Chopra from Delhi looking for internship in video editing(FCP)
    I have done 3yrs animation course from Arena South Ex. Undergone short term course in Video Edition un FCP from RK Films and Studeo.Plss reply me soon
    My mobile number is 9818259977