Final Touch Prediction

Ok here are my predictions now that the dust has settled on the Silicon Color thing. Still no news from anyone.

I had originally thought that Apple will combine Shake and FT. I think this idea has a lot of promise, but maybe that is too much to ask by NAB. Instead I think we will see the following:

Final Touch Ver. 2.1.7 or whichever the next is, will be release in November and support Intel Macs. Apple doesn’t want to stifle its intel switch in any way. This will be a quiet switch and the product will be branded Apple Final Touch.

Final Touch Ver 3 will be released at NAB with Full Fan Fare as Apple Final Touch Pro. A stand alone application for grading. There will be one app that does all resolutions SD to 2K. It will be priced between $6 - $10K.  They will take out the shake node bit, and depending on Shake-like product releases will have send to options for FCP and Other Apps. The FCP integration will unfortunately be based on xml rather than native project files.

This is rumour, but I am putting my neck out with this scenario….
We shall wait and see ay!