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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
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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err, try 15Gb (max) (http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/specs.html)d then, if you are editing video, you are going to need a HOOGE load of space to store all the video anyway.
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Quit yer moanin.
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'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.
We use a Dual 450 in a pro video production environment - be thankful you have such a powerful machine!
I'm amazed every time I see it just how well it copes with DV streams. I think FCP3 decides just what it can do in real time based on the processors available to it, so a dual 1 gig could probably handle more real time stuff.
Renders don't take all that long, depending on what you're doing. It puts our £50,000 Media 100 system to shame in several areas (but is lacking in others - FCP4 seems to address those).
Indeed! Our dual 450 is a little workhorse. We only just retired our 9600/300 from pro video work (it used to house the Media 100 hardware card). We've had to replace her with a G4, but we still use her as a file server.
Macs have a working life that exceeds most PCs, although saying that I'm still using an old Pentium 200 with FreeBSD as an ftp server.