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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. Hah! by dirkdidit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who needs fancy smancy tools to do video editing on the Mac? Real men use iMovie! Right? Right? That's what the salesman told me!!! He wouldn't lie would he?!?!

    1. Re:Hah! by Stephen+VanDahm · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Of course, real men edit movies using text editors under the command console!"

      Actually, real men edit movies the same way they write software -- by manipulating the bits directly with a hex editor. :-)

      Steve

    2. Re:Hah! by inburito · · Score: 5, Funny

      Real men edit movies with scissors and scotch-tape. Anything else is just fancy gimmicks.

    3. Re:Hah! by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 3, Funny

      So you know people in the porn industry too? (if you've ever seen how badly porn is edited you'll get the joke.)

    4. Re:Hah! by Zakabog · · Score: 3, Funny

      Real men don't edit movies, they film exactly what they want exactly the way they want it by drawing really fast on paper using paints made from crushed fruits and berries. All other things like a camera, crew, cast, special effects are all just fancy gimmicks.

  2. Hmm, whats this? by Curt · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Screw you, Adobe (After Effects)"
    -Apple

    http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/texteffects.htm l

  3. Re:Two contradictory paragraphs. by Ciel · · Score: 1, Funny



    You pay like 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bucks for a laptop with a 1 inch screen and a 1 button mouse.

    Holy... and just how, praytell, did you manage a sweet discount like that on premo Apple hardware? Oh, I get it... you have inside connections, don't you?

    Well, it's not like you have to go around bragging about it...

  4. three-button mouse by mz001b · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is amusing to see that a 3-button mouse is listed under the requirements for the Mac version of shake.

    1. Re:three-button mouse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It is amusing to see that a 3-button mouse is listed under the requirements for the Mac version of shake.

      We've been over this.

      Shake 3 will be available for Mac OS X for a suggested retail price of $4,950 (US)
      [link, see "How to Buy Shake 3" on upper right hand side...]

      (Emphasis mine)

      If they can afford that for a piece of software, they can afford a $30 mouse to go with it.

  5. Re:Final Cut Pro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Anywayz ... kinda lost my train of thought ... oh, yeah. Anywayz"

    Post then toke, not vice-versa

  6. $$$? Nevair! by Linux-based-robots · · Score: 4, Funny

    I noticed it says "from the break-out-your-wallet dept."

    Well, not for me! My friends Blackbeard, Long John, and Jean Lafite will see to that!

    Fifteen men on a p2p node,
    Yo ho ho, an illegal download!

  7. Re:Rendezvous Clustering by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a .... Nah, nevermind. It takes longer to post that than to make one now. ;-)

    --
    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  8. Re:Shake 3 NOT OSX-only by quantaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shake is available for the following platforms:
    * MacOS X

    * Linux

    * Irix

    Only Windows 2000/XP support has been dropped.

    Ahh the sweet smell of irony :-)

    --
    I stole this Sig
  9. Re:What? by Phroggy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I seeing double, or is this a dupe of the *previous story*.

    You're seeing double, it's not a dupe.
    You're seeing double, it's not a dupe.

    --
    $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  10. That was fast!! by olrs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean, the story just before this one was about apple releasing new versions of Final Cut, Shake and DVD Studio. Now another release?! Their turn around is like 30 min!! Amazing!!