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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."
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!
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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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".
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.
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.
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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