After Terry Curren’s round up of last year’s Hollywood Post Alliance Retreat I decided I should attend this year. While I was working on marketing for Lumberjack – our real time location logging tool – I got an email from the HPA offering spaces in the demo room during the retreat. It was immediately obvious that this was the time and place to reveal what we’ve been working for the last 8-9 months.
I have a strong interest – personally and professionally – to want to automate the boring parts of post-production away from humans to computers, extending to some of the basic string-outs. This seems to infringe on the “human” role in postproduction, at least according to some of my associates. Well, lately I’ve come across a whole range of stories on how traditionally human roles, like doctors (and assistant editors), can or will be automated out of existence. That’s led me to think about what is the essential role of the human that can’t be automated? It’s not a simple question.
You know how the end of the year comes up and you wonder where the year went? Well, Greg (my partner who writes our software) calculated where his year went:
Event Manager X, Â released July 2011 (7 updates over 6 months in 2011; 9 updates in 2012)
 Xto7 for Final Cut Pro  a.k.a Project Xto7, released October 2011 (8 updates in 2 months during 2011; 17 updates in 2012)
7toX for Final Cut Pro, released  January 30, 2012 (16 updates over 11 months)
Sync-N-Link X, released April 2012 (5 updates over 8 months)
Sequence Clip Reporter , 7 updates in 2012
With updates to our other Final Cut Pro 7 software, it’s a total of  63 releases or updates to apps in a year, or more than one a week.
From its simple beginning as the first third-party Final Cut Pro X application, Event Manager X has evolved into a complete Event and Project Library management tool. The 1.2 release adds Sets: saved combinations of Events and Projects for instant reload based around projects or clients.
The latest release of 7toX for Final Cut Pro available today in the Mac App Store includes:
The latest release of 7toX for Final Cut Pro available today in the Mac App Store includes:
The latest release of 7toX for Final Cut Pro available today in the Mac App Store includes:
This free update is now available in the Mac App Store with support for the new version 1.2 XML (see my review of Final Cut Pro 10.0.6 for the full details). Which means that this versions requires 10.0.6 and won’t work with earlier versions of Final Cut Pro. Here’s the list of bug fixes:
• Bug fix for error reporting in PSD and nested sequences
• Bug fix for detecting empty logging fields
• Bug fix for missing or offline media
The latest release of 7toX for Final Cut Pro includes:
• Bug fix for mono audio clips appearing black (no media) in the timeline
• Bug fix for xml files ending with .XML
• Bug fix for clips with no media file
• Bug fix for clip naming in the Event
The latest release of 7toX for Final Cut Pro includes: