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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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Looks like an Apple user after they pay for these upgrades.
they're also gonna announce new ibooks, and powerbooks, or so it's rumored for tommorow
Congratulations! You found the correct Slashdot section to post your request in. Any Mac luser feeling particularly homosexual and lonely tonight, who can help this poor chap out?
Talk about rearranging deck chairs.
The big issue is the G4 is too damned slow, the powerbooks are too slow, the G5's are too hot to use.
And so they reach out to a niche.
Cripes. I might as well sell my PB and iMac's now and get out while they're worth something.
Exactly why is this flamebait? He's giving what looks like to me a honest opinion - Mod this up or down as you wish, but I dont think it's flamebait material.
Come now. Don't you realize that Slashdot is now part of Apple's advertising departiment?
Did they sell another TWELVE HUNDRED computers too? Phew. If they keep rolling out HUGE numbers like that, they might really go somewhere.
Thankyou! Man, you say one good thing about apple with no references to Linux and look what happens!
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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down to the wording "simplicity of dv with beauty of hd"... :)
"-1, Troll" is a fucking crime. Do mod points arrive and in the process suck your sense of humor out your ass? God I hope I'm not this stoic when I'm modding posts.
I laughed my ass off through this entire post. It's funny. Someone mod this thing funny ASAP. It's just close enough to the mark while being just a hair over the top.
Best post on this entire thread IMO. "the Slashbot" did it right.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
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?
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[imc-us-process] don't trash IMCs on the newswires, please.
Chris Anderson chanders_imc at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 1 06:56:03 PST 2004
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Hi everybody,
Chris Anderson from NYC-IMC here. This is just a
personal observation, I haven't discussed it with my
collegues at NYC Indymedia. But I have to echo Garth's
sentiments and the sentiments of others. The entire
smell coming out of SF-IMC absolutely stinks.The
entire fiasco, from when I first heard about the SF
split up until these moderation questions have left me
very disillusioned.
Honestly, some of the behavior of certain parties to
this conflict, judging only from email, resembles that
of five year olds.In my opinion, this behavior has
done serious and lasting harm to Indymedia as a
network.
Finally, and again this is one man's personal opinion
only, the tone and some of the content of Nessie's
emails is absolutely unacceptable. I began this whole
dialog with a lot of respect for the SF-IMC folks, a
respect that is now completely gone. I've held off
sending this email for a while because I didn't want
to exacerbate the conflict, but can no longer remain
silent in good conscience.
I hope some resolution to this dispute can be found,
but I actually highly doubt it.
sadly,
chris anderson
nyc-imc
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".
sorry, i meant to type "first second post today."
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.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
I just heard some sad news on talk radio -- TV host Sean Hannity was found dead in his hotel room tonight after a book signing. The coroner has not yet officially ruled it a suicide, but apparently that's what it's going to be ruled.
I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will mourn his passing -- even if you didn't agree with him, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.