Apple Announces New Pro Software

yroJJory writes "Apparently, Apple has just announced new pro software today. First off is the new app Motion, which is a new motion graphics program with real-time previews, procedural behavior animation and Final Cut Pro HD integration. Second, is Final Cut Pro HD, boasting the beauty of HD with the simplicity of DV. Capture DVCPRO HD over FireWire, edit using camera-native footage and output over FireWire with no generational quality loss. RT Extreme, now for HD, can deliver multiple HD streams, effects, filters and transitions in real-time to an attached Apple Cinema Display. Last, but most important to me, is DVD Studio Pro 3, which has slick new transitions, superb HD to MPEG-2 encoding, Graphical View, support for all professional audio formats -- including DTS -- (FINALLY!!), and integration with Final Cut Pro HD and Motion. Motion will be available this summer for $299. The Final Cut Pro HD update is available now for FCP 4 users. DVD Studio Pro 3 is expected to ship in mid-May." Reader green pizza writes "Apple today introduced Xsan, a clustered filesystem for Mac OS X systems."

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nice apple commercial

[Roadmaster]

down to the wording "simplicity of dv with beauty of hd"... :)

Apple Has Done it Right

[mslinux]

Unlike MicroSoft, which decided to take the hard and painful route by attempting to turn a single-user, game-playing OS (Windows) into a multi-user, enterprise class OS, Apple tossed their legacy OS and embraced Unix/Darwin/OS X. It's one of the smartest things they've ever done. If not the smartest.

MS will continue trying to turn their little, historic, cute OS into something it was never designed to be while Apple will continue to do things right.

For example, look at the super-computing Mac cluster at Virginia Tech. There wasn't an Apple system on the top 500 list during the OS 9 days, but a mere two years after they release OS X, they're among the top 5 fastest systems in the world... talk about doing it right. Will MS ever learn?

OS X is not free--WHO CARES?!?!?

[Dragonfly]

I (and, I suspect, most thinking people) will GLADLY pay an extra 10, 20, even 50% over competitors' offerings for a product that does what it claims, easily, reliably, and elegantly.

That is what the "new" (i.e. Jobs II) Apple has been producing since 1997.

If enterprise customers do not see how using Apple's products will result in greater performance at a lower overall cost, then I have no sympanty for them. UNIX + Usability = The Holy Grail, even if it isn't "Free".

Re:Actually, your cause and effect might bekinda o

[the_2nd_coming]

aww damn...apple offers a 3 year warranty plan on their iPod...well I guess I will go with Dell or Archos who have a 1 year warranty and no battery replacement plan.

I mean, they use the same internal Li-Ion battery system that has the exact same "short comings"

curse apple for offering protection for my electronics.