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Final Cut Pro 4 Available June 14
chrisbw writes "According to this Apple press release, Final Cut Pro 4 will be available a 4 p.m. on June 14. It has a pretty impressive suite of new features; I for one can't wait to get my hands on it!"
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... that Apple's servers will survive this Slashdotting?
"Derp de derp."
...some consumer level video editing program.
/. every day. You're welcome.
Well then it's an educational article because FCP is a pro level video editor.
You learn something new on
piracy prevention system. Release software thats an 80GB INSTALL. Not that its neccessarily a bad thing, as FCP4 is really like 4 programs in one, but who has the bandwidth and patience let alone the HARD DRIVE space to use that. I'm going to have to get an external firewire had drive for my powerbook g4 just so I can run it...
Viva La Revolucion! Buy a Mac!
Why would you assume that you and your group of friends make up the majority opinion on slashdot? This isn't a sight just for IT. I personally don't care about Domino or Oracle. You could just block articles about Apple.
New versions of Apache, Linux distro's what have you, get posted as well.
Besides, FCP isn't just "some consumer level video editing program". It's an Emmy Award-winning application used by director Steven Soderbergh ( who did âoeTraffic,â âoeErin Brockovichâ and âoeOceanâ(TM)s 11â ), by Rodney Charters director of photography for "24" to name a few.
They have already distrobuted the box sets to local compusa stores. Talk to any manager and they will sell it to you early. Just mention you want to buy the service contract for it.
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Why waste this level of anger and sarcasm on what is, simply, a product announcement you are not interested in?
For those of us who use Final Cut Pro, we're going to be checking our budgets and finding the bucks for this outstanding new release. We're always keen on finding pretty much any kind of information we can.
For those who don't, well, you can feel free to ignore the article.
But rest assured, for the thousands of video professionals and advanced amateurs who love Final Cut, this is a very big deal indeed, and we're pleased to see Slashdot breaking the story.
The depth of feeling Final Cut users have is best illustrated by the one time the original authors of Final Cut visited the LA FCP users' group meeting. There was a standing ovation.
People love Final Cut, including me.
Thus this story.
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Never.
HTH.
"How many video editors do you know who read slashdot?"
Well, I do. But only because I have to. If Digital Voodoo would fix their crappy Media Transfer software I could get back to getting work done instead of pissing around in FCP.
That was classic intercourse!
You assume that your demographic describes Slashdot, and you assume that what doesn't interest you, doesn't interest Slashdot.
Firstly, you don't know the demographic of Slashdot, most especially if you're complaining about an article posted in http://apple.slashdot.org, and not at http://slashdot.org.
Secondly, even if you *know* the demographic of Slashdot, the posts are at the discretion of our 'editors'/overlords. What they think is cool or newsworthy is posted; what you think is cool or newsworthy is much less important, though you do have your chance to submit to them, but in the end it is still their discretion.
That of course is besides the point. People who use Final Cut Pro 3 will look forward to and enjoy this post about the near release of Final Cut Pro 4, regardless of what you may feel.
GPL Deconstructed
All of my OS X friends love Final Cut Pro. I can't argue with them at all, since in my brief exposure to that product, it is a blast to use. However, if you have a PC, I highly recommend you try Vegas from Sonic Foundry.
Vegas and Reason from Propellerheads are the only reason I boot Windows at all (yes I know Reason is available on Macs), but they are also my favorite reason I have to turn on a computer in the first place.
Sorry about the mangled URL for Vegas. Here is the correct one, tested this time.
First of all they're now throwing in Cinema Tools for free, until now it costed a grand, then on top of that they are adding two new apps one for awseom titling the other for pro audio scoring, and on top of that they have added a slew of new and enhanced features with which the update could arguably have stood on its own.
The added value is just amazing. They effectively cut the total cost in half, while almost doubling the original value at the same time. Use this with their newly acquired shake for compositing and logic for audio, and you have a system which will make Avid tremble over thoughts of mass migration away from their quarter million dollar platforms, in favor of cheap and nearly as effective software based systems.
Apple has strengthened themselves against destruction. If the consumer thing ends up not working out. They can always go back to their pro market.
I love Final Cut, I couldn't care less about Domino and it's completely irrelevant to me, I also couldn't care less about Java and think it's dumb, and don't even get me started about how much Oracle sucks.
Did it ever occur to you that you're not the apple section's target audience?
Random and weird software I've written.
Proof: Your posts condemning the article have been moderated to -1 Troll, -1 Redundant and -1 Offtopic. The majority on Slashdot have spoken!
I'm hoping this version finally supports the Ken Burns Effect, and that they implement star wipes. Otherwise, what's the point?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
These non-linear-editing programs made previously pro-level editing available to the masses, and cheaply I might add. I even read a story about a guy who quit his job, bought $10,000 worth of stuff, and was able to have his film accepted into the Sundance film festival. You don't even have to go that far though to see the value. If iMovie, FCP, and every other editing program were used by almost everyone, there would be WAY less boring Wedding/Baby/Graduation videos.
From the "maybe-it-will-crash-less-than-imovie-does" dept? What the hell, I'll bite. In a year, I haven't had iMovie tank at all. I guess cleaning up my home videos before they hit the CD just ain't working the package over hard enough.
Luke, help me take this mask off
Why would you assume that this guy has any friends at all? I'm willing to bet that the 16 geeks he knows professionaly all hate him and comment on his bad breath and superior attitude behind his back.
His social life has devolved to hanging out at "The Androids Dungeon", but the owner is thinking of banning him because he scares the kids.
That leaves his mom, but I won't resort to making fun of how fat she is.
Am I the only one that's bitter from the experience with FCP3 not actually rendering things in real time, going against what it was originally touted to do? This is on a 450 dually mind you, but at the time of FCP3's release, it wasn't too antiquated.
Flamebait?
I troll early and I troll often, but not this time.
That was classic intercourse!
I'm an editor and I read slashdot while waiting for my FCP renders to happen. I get a lot of time to read stuff.. Still, I think yr on the money there. Apple first anounced this months ago. this isn't really news.
that makes two of us! Guess who I am!
Phil Schiller? Martin Scorcese?
You got me.
That was classic intercourse!
I'm a new OS X user, having received my Powerbook on Wednesday night with the primary purpose of using it for multimedia.
I'm importing video as we speak, and iMovie has already crashed on me. True, the circumstances were both unusual and my fault - I tripped on cable, knocking it out of the camera. However, that should bring up a "Cannot commincate with camera" error, not suddendly bomb out.
Cheers,
Ian
(enjoying OS X despite above comment)
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