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Apple Updates Pro Media Apps

Posted by timothy on from the cough-up-dough-and-make-more dept.

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."

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  1. XGrid? by Rauser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

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    1. Re:XGrid? by Suburbanpride · · Score: 4, Interesting
      It wouldn't suprise me, although I don't have any info on it.

      Apple's Logic Pro audio suite released a few months ago has the ability to offload audio rendering tasks to other g5's on the same network. A very cool technology that makes a lot of sense to use in pro video enviroments where it is likely that there a dozens of other workstations on the network.

      Info on distributed audio processing here.

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    2. Re:XGrid? by Rauser · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Ahhh, I should have RTFA... It does appear the DVD Studio Pro has XGrid-like capability built in, with the ability to farm out rendering and conversion jobs to other Macs on the network. I'm sure that this is gonna give XServe sales a big boost...

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  2. HD-DVD not Blu-Ray? by alanoneil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?

    Author SD or HD DVDs with greater speed, efficiency and flexibility than ever before. Integrated, scalable H.264 encoding allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and media. Go from native HDV to HD on DVD with no recompression from Final Cut Pro. Even create HD DVD versions from existing SD DVD projects.
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    CUPERTINO, California--March 10, 2005--The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced that Apple® will become a member of the consortium's Board of Directors. Apple has been a leader in driving consumer adoption...
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    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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  3. Re:Very cool, but still missed the boat by danigiri · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I am also of this opinion. I have done some feasibility studies of FCP on a medium company. Literally thousands of dollars could be saved by having FCP AppleScriptable. Not anything magical about that, mind you, just that the megabucks could be saved by refraining on the purchase of ultra-expensive custom developed solutions that only have the added value of being able to automate some human-resources intensive tasks.

    The GUI widgets in FCP are non-native and this hints that the task of making it AppleScriptable is massive... otherwise Apple would be JustPlainStupid(TM) in my opinion not to implement AppleScript support in FCP. I do pray that they're on it.