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Apple Updates Professional Video Lineup
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."
That would go great with the new video tools.
::looks around at the sudden deluge of crap::
...or, is troll nappy time simply over?
Well, I suppose that somethingawful.com's readers were bound to make it back to slashdot sooner or later, eh?
"CmdrTaco, it's 12 o'clock... do you know where your trolls are?"
Actually, I'm just kidding, but moderators probably aren't reading this far and as a result I'm already moderated -89329983849294 king of trolls. But here's where I get serious. I actually bought three of the newest iBooks and I like them very much. With one, I got one of those supercool Wacom tablets that comes with a pen and mouse. With another, I got this bitchen ass digital camera that I snap over 300 pictures a day with. I use the third for development and for fucking around with UNIX and shit. It's really bitchen, finally having a UNIX OS with fancy graphics like PCs have. Oh well. Apple rules!
Hmmm. I just did an anywho search and couldn't find you, even when I narrowed it down to San Fransisco...
Lots of my friends who are Unix admins also, have been buying power macs for their desktops. So I decided to try a mac since OSX should rock with a freebsd (darwin) core. I just picked up my power mac yesterday, give you my impressions from a hardcore linux/solaris/xp user.
I wont even be using the machine for video edit (or not anytime soon). But the damn thing comes with some nice video editing features as standard. I can tell right away, that this OS is geared around it, all these iSuff on the desktop. Looks easy enough to put some dvd movies together. Not the direction im going, but its there, and in your face.
But onto my impressions of a unix workstation.
Pretty much a very nice machine, I grabbed apple developers tools, xtox, fink and all the goodies to enable X and some programs. Compiled all the terms (aterm/rxvt/eterm) and screen for me to start working. (Thank god for dsl)
First thing, I didnt even bother using the Mac keyboard or mouse. Used my windows M$ mouse/keyboard. Cant stand typing on anything other than the natural. And a wheel mouse is extremely nice. (Had to load osx drivers off m$ site to get it to work, yes osx drivers...) Not all features are supported or work right from app to app. Some standards would be nice. (Most programs are dumbed down to 1 mouse it seems also.)
Terminal, the weak client that it comes with cant hold its own with putty. I grabbed a OS9 client that supports more features and works much better. Tried to use some Aterm's with a vga font I installed. Font support is ok, but lacks good ansi/vt100 fonts which you can install manually for X, but for system, dunno yet. Antialaising looks like freetype (for all I know it could be..)
Cut/paste/select all is annoying as hell, no standard like windows, or even KDE/Icewm/CDE. Cant even hit home/end to move the cursor on some apps command line. Very freak'n weak in this area, maybe they will fix it, as is, I would like to bitch slap the apple devleopers for this. (This OS IS NOT command line friendly for text input...)
Alt-tab doesnt work, grabbed a 3rd party app to fix that. BUT (and horrible) all X programs show up as 1 program (same as finder, major suckage.) Finder is another waste of space, found a Midnight Commander clone, thank god. Copying files in the shell is quicker than moving around in Finder. Finder is the worst file manager i've ever seen. And I've had my share of them on many OS's.
You can tell Apple is moving this OS towards the home user, and video people. But with a bsd core, this os would rock with some tweaks for command line users. Too much work to get it to function as a terminal/ssh, multiple command window workstation. I'm looking around for apps, but this is to be a slap in the face of taking BSD and crippling it with horible text input. No, Really it is this bad, but it can be fixed.....
So far, finding software has been kinda hard. Only freeware stuff is ports from stuff you can find on freshmeat, and most 3rd party apps are shareware only. Ported Games dont even run smoothly on the 1.42ghz DP with the raedon 9000. Seti ran slower than expected, with the 2meg l3 cache thought it would run faster (yes I niced it...) (I only tried quake1, q3a,ut,u2k3,medal of honor demos. MOHAA ran the best and is osx not os9 versioned.
I will say, I wanted it for the bsd core, and awesome aqua qui. Thou after using it the command line (text) typing interface is weak, and needs improvement. But its a new O/S I hope they fix it. (Where can I ask developers at apple about this? How can you mess this up?) Its much improved over OS/9, and I can even ps and kill hung applications. Smb mount from the command line works. (Be careful, my first crash was smb mounting a share with blackslashs..)
If your just going to make movies on it, it works great, codecs work. Grabbed mplayer and with all codecs, watched some xvid divx files, smooth as silk. Even saw a program mencoder to dump dvd's right into divx on sourceforge, all gui'ed
Lots of other companies have released new versons of their software. But they don't pay Slashdot for editorial advertisement, so they never make it into the front page (or into any other page, for that matter).
Can we please restrict the Apple ads to the banner at the top of the page? Or at least stop posting the same Apple "article" twice in a row. Thank you.
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-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.
I don't think many readers care about the mental process you went through while you wrote this comment. There's no good reason to have told us that you had lost your train of thought while writing. After all, you are writing, not talking.
Paragraphs would have helped, too.
Sorry to be so picky, I just can't help myself.