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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. Looks like these apps will need a lot of Power by amichalo · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. They're All Updated by The+Lost+Supertone · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

  3. 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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  4. Free stuff, too! by dr.badass · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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