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Apple Updates Pro Media Apps
macguys writes "Apple Computer has released updates to its media Pro applications. Among the new software released are upgrades to Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack (now called Soundtrack Pro), DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Shake. A bundle of all the new applications (except Shake) is available under the name Final Cut Studio."
So go somewhere else, quit whining, or submit your own stories.
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That was a capital P "Power" - as in Power Mac.
Last year at the NAB, Apple followed the Sunday softweare intors with Monday hardware intros. Let's all hope Think Secret is right.
They are predicting Dual G5 configurations from 2.0 to 2.7 GHz in the Power Macs and iMacs from 1.8 to 2Ghz.
They go on to predict Super Drives replaced with Dual layer support, better graphics cards in the iMacs, 512MB RAM standard on all models (as well as Tiger/iLife)
What they do not know is if Apple with drop the dual core bomb, giving us four cores in a Dual processor Power Mac.
Quite frankly, with Tiger and Final Cut Studio, the 17" Power Book will continue to hodl the top spot for Professional editing on the go.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Uhh, It's now Final Cut Pro 5, not Pro HD (4), DVD Studio Pro 4, not 3. Soundtrack Pro (previously only sound track, I think that's now relegated to Final Cut Express), and Motion 2. These are MAJOR apps, and there are lots of people who they matter to. Complaining this gets mentioned on Slashdot along with "Random thing dealing with Robots or Google" is hardly mature. You're getting mad that Slashdot is reporting on the release of Apple's flag ship OS and flag ship video editing apps, just wait till Slashdot reports that Apple soon will be updating their flag ship pro desktops!
that Apple acknowledged the Tiger release and puts availability on April 29 on their home page, which I haven't seen as an article yet, but would probably also be newsworthy, considering the number of speculation articles and posts I saw.
I recognize people by their sigs. Is that a bad thing?
It seems to me that some of these apps could really take advantage of XGrid, especially since it appears that they are only going to work with OS X 10.4. Can anyone confirm whether XGrid capability is present in any of these apps?
The white zone is for loading and unloading only. If you need to load or unload go to the white zone. It's a way of life
A story about Apple announcing a major set of application updates at a major tradeshow on apple.slashdot.org?!? And that doesn't make sense to you?
Slashdot posts stories whenever Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds, Woz, RMS, or Bill Gates sneezes. This is by design. News for Nerds, and all.
What's Ubuntu's next animal release name? What's the latest on the BitKeeper saga? Is Tiger showing up early in stores anywhere? When does the next Star Trek series start? Who's the new NASA administrator?
If a site that purports to be news for nerds, and doesn't cover those topics, *that's* when there's something to complain about.
So, turn off Apple stories! Or don't display them all on your front page! That seems more effective than whining about your "fears".
I applaud your willingness to keep current but you might want to update the "300 mhz"...
my momma said never respond to anonymous cowards, but here goes: first off, if you're copying a file from one folder to another, on os x (don't know about the darwin part) it is simply linked. if it's copying from a disk image or from a removable drive, it takes a few seconds to copy a 17mb file, and you can do anything in the background. you're simply full of crap to say it takes 20 minutes. now, if it has trouble reading the file, or it is corrupt ot something, that's another story.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Clicky.
Your mom was a smart lady; you should listen to her. This is a pretty old troll, it's just not funny anymore; similar to the '[blank] is dying' or 'in soviet russia...' memes.
There's a lot funnier trolls they could have made.
Dude, you just bought the oldest troll in the book!
You're new here, aren't you?
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If you are trying to post a Slashdot comment with SubEthaEdit, this might explain some of your problems. Generally text editors aren't so hot at navigating the web.
And how, pray tell, did you post that comment if Safari will not work?
no, not new, just not paying attention, what with all the natalie portmans, soviet russias, goatses, hot grits, dead bsd's and apples, i forgot. sorry. won't happen again. i'll spend the next 2 weeks using windows. no ibook for me. but hey it'll be just in time for tiger. and 3 years from now, it'll be time for longhorn...........maybe.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
This seems like a kind of unusual thing for Apple, but they're also offering a 30-day free trial of Motion 1.0. It's not the new version, but for people that wonder what Motion can do, or bored Slashdorks, it should be interesting.
Note: it requires a system with a fairly recent video card.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
You need a blowjob and a shot of tequila, you whiny bitch.
And no that's not an offer.
Logic Pro just got bumped to 7.1, with some fixes and a few new features.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Has anyone else noticed the new "HD-DVD" creation feature of DVD Studio Pro 4? Not a mention of Blu-Ray anywhere. I though Apple was part of the Blu-Ray consortium?
I smell a strange conflict of interest. Apple's even got the HD-DVD logo (not Blu-Ray!) emblazoned on DVD Studio Pro's page.--
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This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
no, not new, just not paying attent
... but cheer up! I'm pretty sure you can still get a four-digit UID over at MacSlash. Then, if he shows up five minutes later, you can mercilessly savage him for his inexperience and ignorance.
Actually, you are user 608864, while he is user 517789.
On Slashdot, that means he has every right to think of you as a "fucking n00b."
You are to address him, not merely as "ZosX", but as "ZosX-sempai" to properly show him the respect which is due to him. He may in turn choose to apply the "-chan" honorific to your user name, if so inclined.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Welcome to http://Apple.slashdot.org im sorry for the problems you've been experiancing we normaly discuss Major world events but for some reason someone has gotten it into there heads that this is a page for apple news, who knows if it was the apple.slashdot.org combined with the News for nerds thing or what ..but we will hurry to fix the problem for you right now ...
We shall also redo the error in the sub title from "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." to a more fitting "IMPORTANT News for Nerds , Stuff that your life depends on" and have more storys here about poisoned granny smiths or mcintosh apples with tequila worms in them
Or to put it a less sarcastic quick way , What the hell did you expect to find on apple.slashdot.org , it just so hapens that this one was put through to the default front page , looking at your member number and you obvious anti-apple bias im rather confused why you have yet to turn off apple storys.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
and we have lernt that Anti-Apple fanbois (fans of hating apple) are realy not very nice people ... Be nice wouldnt you , and perhaps learn to live in peace with us apple users , or piss off and stop insulting us.
Final Cut Studio: US$1299 or GBP£899. Is the exchange rate really 1.44?
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Uhh, my anti-apple bias? You're kidding, right? I'm typing this from a PowerBook and this is my fifth Apple computer in the past decade. I love Apple Computers. Steve Wozniak is the Geek God. Steve Jobs is inspirational. The Apple II was so great it made men weep with joy. Macs are great, that's why I keep buying them. I'm personally responsible for several PC -> Mac conversions; people ask me which computer to buy and I tell them "a Mac".
Now, Apple fanboys, that's something I really hate. This thread has been the perfect example of everything I hate about you guys. I point out how useless these "Minor Upgrade to Existing Apple Software" stories are, and I get accusations that I'm "anti-apple". Remove your fanboy chips from those lumps of meat you laughably call your brains, because they're affecting your ability to think.
ok i appoligise for that , but its early and i needed a coffe ;). .
:P , this doesnt make me a fanboi it makes me someone with a vested intrest. ... made a product update announcement instead of staying quiet about it ,and slashdot editors though alot of folks here would find use for the info and we did .
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For your info im not an apple fanboy , i am a if anything a GPL fanatic and will take happily take a ripping about that , but most definantly i do apreciate apple designed computers and products. personaly i found this info usefull as i use one of those products . and i dont apreciate someone comming along blabering some nonsence about me being a fanboi because i found it usefull, and i definantly dont need no "OH NO slashdot is turing into some blah" posts
Honestly , And yes i also found the kernel news intresting
Being a fanboi involves finding no fault with anything X does.
So what have apple done wrong here
Just because we get pissed off being insulted by people does not make us fanboys.
You know the blade points both ways , alot of people who are sick of fanbois tar everyone with the same brush and i could easily call them "*Haters".
If apple do something wrong ala that thinksecret lawsuit i will shout about it , if RMS screws up i will shout about it , if slashdot posts an obvious dupe i will speak out , if any of them do something right then i will read and enjoy reading it . and if people tell me there is something wrong with me for finding it usefull then i will tell them where to shove it
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
apple was already doing things which was using 3d card in most of those apps, so i would be surprised if they didnt add core functionality as well, given we probably wont see a update in any of these for another 12 months
problem is you really should be working on a cheaper machine to get the cheaper performance you crave. comparing a g5 1.8 to a 486 is just apples and oranges. You need to dump the G5 and get your self a machine a comparable power/cost ratio to the work horse 486 you describe.
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Let me suggest a buff PowerMac 7100 http://www.429bauhaus.no-ip.com/Apple/PowerMac710
you will find it's PowerPC 601 SCREAMS even after all these years with photoshop 2.0 and it's 350 meg SCSI hard drive will be more than adequate to handle your 20 MB files.
You can give me the POS G5. Good Luck!
Well said, Oh Mighty and Wise Golias (176380), if this lowly maggot (593551) may be so bold as to comment.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I've been holding out for the longest time, waiting for the mythical G5 Lappy. My PB G4 800 has been enough to get by until now. I can hold out until June, September at the latest.
Then the choice will be between the 17" or the 12" with my 22" cinema display.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
This is actually a major upgrade in Final Cut Pro and the other applications. There is multi-camera support, which is one of the most-requested features from FCP users. There is (finally!) support in FCP for that cool camera Steve was waving around at the keynote in January. There is a new audio editing application that looks like it's the answer to many people's prayers.
I suppose if news for nerds is just news for Linux kernel developers, you might have a point that this shouldn't be covered. But there's an Apple section on this site, and this happens to be major news to those Mac users, such as myself, who are heavily involved in the world of content creation.
You shouldn't feel an obligation to click on and read a story because it's there. Understand that there are people for whom this is a genuinely big deal, and go on to the next story.
Nothing wrong with that.
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If you have the video card needed to run it, it's a must-see.
:-(.
It's the coolest motion graphics application ever. I have it and using it is truly a joy.
Pre-G5 PowerMacs don't have the video card needed to run it unless it was purchased as a (horribly expensive) option. You have been warned
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I don't mean to sound like a complainer, but . . .
WHY couldn't Apple have silenced the countless people crying for Applescript support in Final Cut Pro?? I see that they support Applescript now in Soundtrack, and they taut it as a great feature. They even rub it in your face that you can run Soundtrack scripts from within Final Cut Pro. This begs the obvious question: If Applescript is so great, why not support it in the flagship product of your video editing suite??
I know the old arguments about how video editing is a creative task and can't be scripted. I agree to a point, but there are many mundane tasks that *could* and *SHOULD* be scripted. Importing and exporting are great examples. What if I want to automate the process of posting a new edit for a client to review? What if I want to automate exporting a large batch of media? What if I want to see how this clip will look using a dozen different codecs and/or settings, but don't want to click 80 different checkboxes to do it??
Applescript would be wonderful for all these tasks. Not to mention the possibilities opened up for 3rd party developers to leverage some of the power of Final Cut Pro from their own applications via Applescript. Right now we have to rely on clunky techniques like Apple UI Scripting, or Folder Actions, neither of which are totally reliable or have all the power we need.
I have been waiting with keen anticipation for FCP 5 and while a lot of the new features (and pricing) look great, I was totally underwhelmed by the gaping hole Apple left by not packaging their own technology: Applescript.
Please, someone tell me I'm wrong and that I missed the page on Apple's site explaining the new Applescript dictionary for FCP5! Please!!
Thank you. You may now clean my boots.
(Clue to those who missed the sarcasm: If your UID is more than three digits long or so, nobody is impressed... and even then, sometimes not. I kind of wish they would stop displaying them entirely.)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I was not among those to initially reply to you, nor do I care about your opinion of the newsworthiness of this story, but I suggest that if you act like a complete jackass by posting ignorant crap like " Honestly, I thought the "Linux 2.6.11-rc2 released" articles were bad enough, but the incessant Apple product announcements are even worse. Is it really worth mentioning every single product that Apple releases?" in the wake of a major product announcement which is posted on apple.slashdot.org, then lots of people are going to come out of the woodwork to point out that you are being a dick.
That doesn't make them "Apple fanboys", it just makes them tired of hearing whining like yours, which seems to come up in every single goddamn Apple thread.
What it boils down to is that you are complaining about there being too much content on Slashdot. You are announcing your dissatisfaction that something which does not seen newsworthy to you. Are you physically incapable of skipping a story every now and then?
In other words: STFU and GBTW
It's actually kind of fun when the old timers come out of the woodwork for a UID pissing match.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I've been reading slashdot since, oh, probably 1997 or so. I've been using the net before the WWW even came around. 1992 or so is when I started I think. I'd probably have a much lower UID #, but I never really started to posting to slashdot until much more recently. Once I realized that I could sort comments based upon scores automatically, I was hooked. Quite honestly, I don't know why I never got a user ID earlier, since it gives you a lot more options.
:)
Any UID # below 200,000 has been here for a long time, much like yourself. I haven't seen many 3 digit UIDs in a while. I haven't seen many 4 digit UIDs either for what its worth. I wonder how long it will be until Slashdot breaks a million registered users. I keep seeing numbers in the high 800k range, so I know its getting closer.
For the guy that I replied to: I was really just joking, cuz I thought it was hillarious you actually bit the bait, and for the guy that responded: Nice to meet you.
That said, have a great fucking day!
*bows*
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You can also choose to not be an asshole by going somewhere else. Why the fuck do you care so much? I'm so sick of people bitching about something you can choose not to view. GO AWAY YOU FUCKING MORON. WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK. KILL YOURSELF AND WE STILL WON'T CARE. FUCKING ASSHAT. "Learnt"? Illiterate fuckhole.
If you are pissing UID's, see a doctor immediately.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
not to beat a dead horse, your plenty dead. This is a major update to a major video package used by pros to make tv and film, ever hear of small film called Lord of the Rings? they and a multitude of studios use these products make TV and Films worth about a couple billion a year. Not minor shit.
You, however radiate ignorance and stupidity in your post for numerous reasons others have slapped over head with. Reap what you sow.
But we need the eggs.
Go to a support forum for pete sake's. You have computer problem, get it fix and quit trolling.
You don't have to be smart to use a Mac, you just have to be smart enough to buy one
I'm curious... do you happen to put all your media files on the same partition as your applications? In a word: Don't.
I have nearly half a terabyte of storage, and I run TechTool Pro regularly to defrag and perform directory maintenance.
IMPORTANT:
1. If you're not performing system/memory disk diagnostics and maintenance regularly, then your problem isn't the Mac... your problem is your own lack of common sense. Once, I discovered that one of my memory cards was not seated properly... You might never catch that if you don't confirm how much RAM your system is recognizing. So, as a rule, perform diagnostics regularly on everything.
2. To narrow down where your drag is occuring, run the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder... check network, memory and disk activity to pinpoint more specifically where the unnecessary load is occurring.
3. The dumbest thing you can do is configure your System Disk as your scratch/capture disk... Always use separate physical drives for scratch/capture.
In short... sit down, shut up, and fix the problem.
Ouch. That feels better.
I'm a four but I don't remember the password and the account is tied to my old college email account. I should talk to somebody and get it reset. So I can school all you new kids.
I never liked Final Cut that much. Though that other video app they bought is quite nice, other than the nerfed price on Linux and Irix.
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