AppleInsider Staff
Randy Ubillos, the creator of both Apple's Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premier, announced on Thursday that he is leaving Apple after more than two decades with the Mac maker.
Ubillos revealed his departure in a post to Twitter. The developer suggested he will not be taking another full-time job, as he said he's looking forward "to retirement and the adventures ahead."
His official title at Apple was chief architect of photo and video applications.
Ubillos started out at Adobe, where he worked on the first three versions of its Premier software. He later jumped ship to Macromedia where he helped to create KeyGrip, a pro video editing program based on Apple's QuickTime.
KeyGrip was later renamed Final Cut, though Macromedia could not release it due to licensing issues. Apple eventually purchased the Final Cut team and software outright, and saw its development through.
In addition to Final Cut, Ubillos was also responsible for the creation of both iMovie and Aperture during his time at Apple.
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Darn.
RIP Final Cut Pro. And with it, Apple's Pro market altogether, as Apple becomes a fashion company (Jesus, never thought I would be saying that.. It hurts). Time to start learning other editing applications.
[quote name="SpamSandwich" url="/t/185939/final-cut-creator-randy-ubillos-leaves-apple-after-20-years#post_2714454"]Darn.[/quote]Well put... I hope the team has the creativity and imagination to continue the "out of the box" direction.
I was a beta tester of Andy's video editing software when he was with Radius which had both hardware (Mac card based breakout box with component IO) and his Radius Edit software (not mentioned in the short bio above). He was always responsive and helpful and a really nice guy to correspond with. He is one of the giants in digital video's brief history. I had two Radius Telecast systems back then plus the Macs, RAID drives, DLT back up. hardware companders and so on. It was considered a low budget set up as it was well under $100,000! Hence I get a kick out of FCPro X. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Radius+Demonstrates+Component+Digital+Video+Editing+System+For+PCI...-a018995304 http://www.mikecollins.plus.com/PUBLICATIONS/PDFS/Radius%20Telecast.pdf
Final iCut? Is that a Freudian slip?