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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."
I am on t3h sp0ke!!!!11!!1!
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
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5/1.8 w/1024 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SubEthaEdit is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Clicky.
They listed OS 10.4 in the system requirements. Hopefully all the apps take advantage of all the CoreImage, CoreVideo, and the rest of the new Core features, since, correct me if I'm wrong, Tiger has gone gold, and Apple internally should've had access to all the best and newest.
I personally would love to see those already implemented when I make my purchase so I wouldn't have to get an update right after I install the new OS and apps.
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.
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.--
Final Cut Studio: US$1299 or GBP£899. Is the exchange rate really 1.44?
Drag n' Drop DVD Recommendations
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.
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!!
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.