Final Cut Studio update supposedly due next year
Frustrated by the Final Cut delay, consultant Dustyn Gobler sent sent Steve Jobs an email asking for status update. Jobs supposedly replied (we can't confirm that Gobler did in fact receive a message back from Jobs) with "A great release of Final Cut is coming early next year."
Hardmac reported in September that the Final Cut delay was due to "significant setbacks." Specifically, their source said that differences between the team responsible for Shake and the team working on Motion are partly responsible, and representative of the overall difficulty in uniting all of the suite's applications.
Steve's assertion that an update is due in 2011 is consistent with other rumors we've heard on the subject. For those who, like Gobler, must make very expensive decisions on this software, we say sit tight. An update is on the way. Maybe.
[Via MacNN]
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Frustrated by the Final Cut delay, consultant Dustyn Gobler sent sent Steve Jobs an email asking for status update. Jobs supposedly replied...
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It's fine for consumers, but I am so sick of this "sit tight and trust Apple" mentality when it comes to business customers. Businesses need to know what's coming down the road, and approximately when, with plenty of advance so they can budget and plan. The debacle over the Xserve EOL just shows how disastrous this mentality can be.
November 12 2010 at 9:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLogical to announce at NAB in Lost Wages April 9 – 14.
November 12 2010 at 5:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMaybe I don't get it but $1000 for a AP ? Seriously. I can buy a new Mac for that amount of money. I know its what professionals use but with prices that extreme its no wonder piracy and hacking is huge.
If it was $100 I would seriously consider it, but for $1000 thats how much I owe on 2 Credit cards. Screw them
Meanwhile FC Express languishes
November 11 2010 at 7:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI am hoping that someday Apple will un-bundle the FCP Studio and allow buying Motion and Soundtrack separately. The App Store would be perfect for this. I would love to get the latest Motion without having to pay for FCP too. This might change the "representative of the overall difficulty in uniting all of the suite's applications." problem.
November 11 2010 at 6:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyShake has been dead as a product for 5 years... Your reporting is wrong on at least that much. There is no Shake team at apple.
November 11 2010 at 5:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAlso, Shake has never been part of the Final Cut Studio either has it?
November 11 2010 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThere have been about 2 years (sometimes more) between each major Final Cut release, and Studio 3 was release last year. It really shouldn't surprise anyone that there was not an update this year. "Early next year" would fall right in line with the pattern that Apple has established for the last decade worth of Final Cut updates.
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