Final Cut Pro X

Robert Tompkins wrote:

This thread really seems to be making progress.

Indeed. I've learned so much.

I understand that part from the demo but the demo omitted a lot of info. I'm wondering how the annual service contract for the 100 seats will be affected as I work at an academic institution. Maybe there might be something for us? Who knows. I guess I will sometime in June.

Did you happen to to talk to your Apple Institutional rep? With 100 seats and a service contract I have to imagine someone knows how they are going to make money off you in the future.

OMG...I bet Apple never thought about how to keep people from pirating. We can just buy one copy and split it among everyone. This is great! If it is free I don't even care if it works.

Shaggy wrote:

What no serial number? FCPX will be download glory for the pirates!

If this is true it may not be such a bad thing for Apple.

It will increase the user-base of FCP X which is an excellent form of advertising, resulting in hoardes of envious PC users having to buy Mac computers.

So whilst Apple might have reduced profits on the software it will make a killing on computer sales.

Microsoft strategy ;)

I don't see a lot of copies of iWork, iLife, Apertuer, etc, being pirated now. DVD's are much easier to make dmg's of and pirate. Having purchased software via the App Store, and experimenting out of curiosity, It's not so easy. There's code buiried that ties the install into your App Store/iTunes account. I can't find it. But, I'm sure eventually someone will. All those bootleg copies of App Store software and iTunes movies all over the place already and all that... not.

The app store is not a simple download of an app, it actually is compiling files during download and embedding your Apple ID into the software, matching it to your registered machine ID's. Very difficult to defeat. Much more than DVDs. So unless you purposfully give someone your Apple ID for piracy purposes, well...

It's probably keyed to the download machine MAC address and will require the correct Apple ID and password for the account holder on that machine.

Can someone just tell me the release date of Final Cut X? Maybe a possible price. I want it asap.

NO one knows the release date. We will know the day it's released.

Now, as soon a Jobs finishes that telepathic interface, we can all rest easy.

Or you could just read this thread and see 'somewhere in June' and '$299' some times.

Or google: 'release date price fcp x' and find this link: http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/04/13/apple-final-cut-pro-x-us-release-date- availability-price-and-video-demo/

Rienk

Wow. The thread that just keeps on giving.

To quote my good friend, "

"...Hopefully it won't be too far into June. There are a lot of things starting to stack up. Lion, FCProX, iOS5, Mobile Me, etc... Let's get this show on the road!"

Did you happen to to talk to your Apple Institutional rep?

Yes and they didn't have any info on what is going to happen. I'll call them again on June 1st.