Final Cut Pro X - sort-of news from Apple

Sam Johnson, a Post-Production Engineer in London just tweeted the following about a private (but on the record) Final Cut Pro X briefing held today by Apple with some of Apple's key enterprise contracts. Lots of "coming soons," which is sort of what we thought they were saying...

1.XML in/out is coming via 3rd party soon...no FCP 6/7 support project support coming ever it seems...

2. Ability to buy FCPX licenses additional FP7 license for existing enterprise deployments coming in the next few weeks...[CORRECTION: Apple only says that they are looking into this...]

3. EDL import/export coming soon...

4. AJA plugins coming soon for tape capture and layback...capture straight into FCPX bins. [CORRECTION: Will not be a plug-in, but an an AJA application]

5. XSAN support for FCPX coming in the next few weeks...

6. Broadcast video output via Blackmagic & @AJAVideo coming soon...

7. Additional codec support via 3rd Parties coming soon...

8. Customizable sequence TC for master exports coming soon...


...within a few weeks for some updates i.e. XSAN up to a few months for 3rd party developers to get their heads around the API.

Some #FCPX updates will be free some will cost...

Sam Johnson: @aPostEngineer

[UPDATE: Corrected item number 2. The tweet was about buying additional FP7 licenses, not the volume availability of FPX licenses, which is also supposed to come soon.]

[UPDATE Jul 11: Correction items 2& 4]