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Apple Updates Professional Video Lineup

Posted by michael on from the break-out-your-wallet dept.

BlueGecko writes "Amid surprisingly little fanfare, Apple today updated their entire professional video lineup, including DVD Studio Pro 2 (including a greatly improved menu editor and improved compression abilities), Final Cut Pro 4 (enhanced real-time editing, more customizable workflow, and an improved titling interface), and Shake 3--the first version of Shake to be Mac OS X-only and now sporting enhanced rotoscoping tools and the ability to work directly with Photoshop layers. Combine this with Logic and you've got an entire professional movie studio on your Mac."

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  1. Re:Two contradictory paragraphs. by brarrr · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple does not suck, YOU SUCK, plain and simple. It goes like this. You can pay less than 1000 for an ibook with a small screen but works just fine, or 3000 for a powerbook with a hugeass screen, bigger than your girlfriends ass. They come with lots of software, and you can download all the free shit you want!! The government should pay for it? WTF!!!

    Man you have me so pissed at your ignorance and obvious trolling and flamebaiting that i'm not going to read the rest of your post, i'll probably have a coronary.

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  2. Where's the pro OSS bent, people? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm posting this reply here as well as the previous dupe in the hope it'll receive more exposure as it deserves. It's scary that slashdot is not only promoting a company with ridiculous closed hardware (non free in either sense of the word) but with incredulously overpriced applications. Think about how far we've declined for a second.

    $999 might seem "hefty" when you're used to paying nothing for software. But unlike much of the software that carries a $0 price tag, FCP actually .... works!

    If you want to pay for your own laziness, feel free!. It takes nothing more than a little searching and trying out the Free OSS tools (yes, all of them if need be) available to do the job, and perhaps writing a few scripts to customise them to your workflow and you end up with a far more useful setup than simple one "mentally cheap" package that attempts to do it all.
    Pay $999 or spend a little time online?

    I know which is the solution an intelligent mind would pick.

  3. Re:Rendezvous Clustering by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just like Final Cut Pro brought Avid-level power to the masses

    Final Cut Pro is a thousand bucks. Which "masses" are you talking about, exactly?

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