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Cinema Tools for Final Cut Pro

Posted by pudge on from the now-i-can-finish-my-documentary-on-hacker-mating-rituals dept.

batobin writes "Looks like Apple is expanding their grasp on the film editing industry with their new release of Cinema Tools for Final Cut Pro. It enables FCP 3 to better manage film and 24 fps high density video. The product is expected to ship in May."

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  1. What's wrong with just using vi to edit. by JPriest · · Score: 4, Funny

    All graphics should be in ASCII, Anything else would be large and use more than .003% of my 386's CPU. :)

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  2. Awright! Time to ditch Premiere! by Vidmaster_Steve · · Score: 2, Funny

    Excellent! Now maybe I can erase that FAGGY FAGGY Premiere from my drive and use some NON-CONSUMER editing software.

    Premiere is okay for those of you who have not had the religious experience that is working with AVID. Compared to AVID, Premiere is a worthless, Pinnacle Video-level sack of bits.

    Now, Premiere's After Effects/Photoshop intergration is incredibly sweet, something that AVIDDV doesn't do exactly right.

    Also, AVIDDV is NT-only for some goddamned reason (unless that's changed since I knuckled under and spent $2k on the NT port). So, once I get this new software, I'll actually be able to USE the G4 machine that, because I've no professional-level editing software for it, has been sitting on my desk, gathering dust.

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  3. Re:iPod Category? by selderrr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cause this thingie runs on an iPod ! And on an iPod only ! Jaleous as they are about the GameBoyAdv running an http server, the Apple engineers ported FinalCut to iPod.

    You'll have buy 128 poddies though and daisy chain them together... Plus a diesel generator...

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  4. Hacker Mating Rituals by Rezalution · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the now-i-can-finish-my-documentary-on-hacker-mating-r ituals dept.

    Hackers? Mating? Wouldn't this just be a lot of stories about late nights looking at Pr0n?

  5. Re:$4000 CHEAP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Not to mention that the people that this software is marketed to make $4k on a slow week shit, I videograph weddings and parties and I make $50/hr)"

    I guess that's why you are the Vidmaster...
    Vidmaster cut faster, vid vid vidmaster

    freak freak

  6. A bit for your buck. by NullStream · · Score: 2, Funny

    "10MB of available disk space required for installation"
    (from http://www.apple.com/cinematools/specs.html)

    So $1K AMR for a 10Mb piece of software. They could at least put in a few DVD's of Job's famous "never been done before" speaches and
    maybe one of his turtleneck shirts or something. And I thought Adobe was nuts for charging $1+ for photoshop and a per page fee for a usable version of Acrobat.

    Sure the size of the program has nothing to do with it's value though when you spend a bucket of cash you feel ripped off when you are returned with just a sandwich bag of product.

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  7. at least Apple knows their target market by mjolnir_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    On http://www.apple.com/cinematools/ just above the Apple logo on the display, note a teeny tiny little Dock icon for:

    Quake III Arena.

  8. Re:Cool by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 2, Funny
    After all, software is nothing more than data.

    Yeah! And why do these damn programmers get paid so much anyway? It's just typing, for chrissakes!