Panel:

Erik Horn
Andrew Baldwin
Tom Baurain
James Fox

Key Thoughts:

One of the big pluses is to be able to work natively is a huge plus! You don’t have the time, space, and man-hour expenses to have to transcode to prores.

You are able to load up the FCP shortcuts in AP, which is a huge plus.

The speed of AP 5 is greatly increased over FCP7

A huge increase in performance and speed of processing on top of not having to transcode.

These guys stacked tons of layers, blured things, EFX layers, even changed the opacity and it still played back in realtime.

They were running AP5 on Dell’s; they are using the NVIDA.

Schools are going to start changing their curriculum moving from FCP to AP.