Apple NAB Media Event Coverage

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An 11am PST Media event (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/04/20050416180835.shtml) from Apple is expected to bring software announcements today at the National Association of Broadcasters.

Coverage for the event is limited. At present there appear to be two sources for the event.

http://www.apple-x.net/
http://acme.blogs.com/apple/ (French)

Apple's booths at NAB are reportedly covered with black sheets as well as covered banners.

We will continue to update this story to reflect the latest information.

[varmit]

Most likely something is new. Can't wait to hear what it is.

[TheMasin9]

PLEASE LET NEW POWERMACS BE COVERED UP!!!

[Ambrose Chapel]

hope it's a nice mix of hardware and software

[FlyNolJ]

I think this'll be the event for the new Powermacs to debut, dual-core an' all. Apple is so classy, "black sheets and banners."

[aafuss1]

It's being presented by Rob Schoeben (according to the French live coverage blog)

[absolutmp5]

great news lets see what comes!!!

[TMA]

non-french version of acme.blogs.com/apple/: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Facme.blogs.com%2Fapple%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

[runninmac]

The apple-x site is taking for ever to load probobly becuase of heavy traffic.

TMA Thanks for the transation i had to copy and paste the whole thing to a translation site. It was quite time conusming.

[broken_keyboard]

non-french: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Facme.blogs.com%2Fapple%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Thanks for the link!

"Recall of the advertisements of the year spent, diffusion of a video which shows their use..."

Hehe... I love auto translators.

[LeeTom]

My prediction:
Software only.
New PowerMacs tomorrow... no dual core.

[Fourbin]

I just went to the Apple Store order status page and it says the store is down for a scheduled maintenance. Maybe getting ready for some new products?

[eric67]

www.hardmac.com is providing english version of
http://acme.blogs.com/apple/ (French)
in addition to news provided by other sources.

[propropro]

I'm a mac newbie so... who is Rob Schoeben?

[macorama]

The apple-x site is taking for ever to load probobly becuase of heavy traffic.

It's beyond forever now! Not loading at all.

So do the black sheets look like they're covering powerbook sized objects or powermac sized objects?

[FlyNolJ]

It's gotta be dual core, Apple would be silly to have not achieved it over 8 months.

[fedora]

uk store down

[jwhitnah]

Does anyone else feel a little embarrassed staring at a computer screen on a Sunday? :o Someone help me.

[ipacmm]

The US store was down but now is back online...

[aprilfools]

Ok.......I have inside information and I know exactly what's under the black sheets. It's....... LONGHORN. Yes. Its true. Apple and MicroSoft are merging and a new world dominating Operating System will prevail: Tigerhorn. :D

[runninmac]

THe french and Spain (just checking random stores) store is down to but the US is up.

[SAukland]

If you can't get into Apple-X... the IRC server is...

irc.apple-x.net

[MacSA]

So it's just the UK store down?............. its been offline qute a few times recently and nothing has cahnged.

[BakedBeans]

half excited, half not!

[Peace]

From what I see almost all the European stores are currently down
first announcement: Final Pro Studio
it includes FCP5 and will natively support HDV format

[zakatov]

If you can't get into Apple-X... the IRC server is...

irc.apple-x.net

good luck getting into that

EDIT: just got in, woot

[yoak]

Hi
Norway store is down (again?). This could be exciting..

[zakatov]

Hi
Norway store is down (again?). This could be exciting..

US store doing just fine...

[yoak]

FCP 5: support of all the formats HD + IMX 50, Dynamic RT Extreme (optimization according to power CPU) - direct Support of P2 de Panasonic - Audio multicannal (24 channels) - Mulicam Support, up to 128 sources! yeah!

This is good news.

From the french site

[TMA]

Don't know why the US store is still up. :confused: All the other stores are down with the yellow sticky of newstuff™

[Zaty]

That's not unusual. The US store always goes down later than the other stores.

[Ambrose Chapel]

Don't know why the US store is still up. :confused: All the other stores are down with the yellow sticky of newstuff™

it's always the last store to go down. probably will be down shortly

[runninmac]

How does IRC work? (im on windows right now if i need to download anything) I have been trying for a while to get into whatever IRC is and its not working.

[zakatov]

From irc:

"[14:44] <trent> FCP 5 a MONSTER update"

[zakatov]

How does IRC work? (im on windows right now if i need to download anything) I have been trying for a while to get into whatever IRC is and its not working.


Just keep trying, all slots are full, but ppl drop out once in a whileapple-x.net/irc/pjirc_2_1_1_bin/NormalApplet.html

[TMA]

it's always the last store to go down. probably will be down shortly

They'll have to be fast, the UK one is due back up in about 15 minutes.

[SAukland]

Motion 2 HD announced with Advanced animation.

Film quality rendering. First 32-bit float GPU acceleration. Unlimited RAM access. (stolen from Apple-X feed)

[runninmac]

Thanks ill keep on tryin

[Rootman]

They'll have to be fast, the UK one is due back up in about 15 minutes.Last call for single core PMs!

[Ambrose Chapel]

They'll have to be fast, the UK one is due back up in about 15 minutes.

maybe apple is going to spite the US and only release all these new apps overseas!

;)

[zakatov]

I wonder what kind of PowerMac the demos are done on

[nichos]

good luck getting into that



That channel is full, but it is being mirrored on:
irc.krono.net
join #macrumors
for discussion join #nabchat on the same server

[virus1]

refresh... refresh... refresh.... so exciting!

[chubad]

Does anyone else feel a little embarrassed staring at a computer screen on a Sunday? :o Someone help me.

No help here. It's a nice day and I'm doing the same thing. I'm a hopeless Mac Geek!
:D

[aap]

Thank god! No new Powermacs announced. That means we will see something big announced in June, instead of those sorry specs that Think Secret predicted.

[paulypants]

Well I think that TS specs on the new PowerMac GPUs is not correct after these pro app updates. From Apple's site:

Motion requires the standard graphics card in any Power Mac G5 or iMac G5, a 1.25GHz or faster PowerBook G4, or a 1.25GHz or faster flat panel iMac. One of the following graphics cards is highly recommended: NVIDIA GeForce FX 6800 Ultra DDL or 6800 GT DDL (NV40), ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11), ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350), or 9800 XT (R360).

9600 doesn't appear to be highly recommended, why would you release new pro software and then subsequently release new pro hardware thats specs aren't highly recommended? Now if the hardware was updated BEFORE the software I might understand, but after? hmmmm...

But, this is apple afterall... :rolleyes:

edit: also under requirements:

AGP Quartz Extreme Graphics card -- ugh

Replication of DVD Studio Pro 4-authored DVDs requires a DLT drive

[CubaTBird]

dudes... nab is not used to anounce hardware stuff.. never was :rolleyes:

[bellis1]

[ 12:18 ] Continuation of the demonstration, that décoiffe! the sound system of the room is signal, like always with APPLE! The public is in fright...



monday....

tuesday....

june....

[ManchesterTrix]

dudes... nab is not used to anounce hardware stuff.. never was :rolleyes:

Except for last year when they updated PowerBooks and iBooks

[Rootman]

dudes... nab is not used to anounce hardware stuff.. never was :rolleyes:Last year the new hardware came the next day (Monday). We'll be whitebait if that happens.

[aap]

"Playback of HD DVDs authored in DVD Studio Pro 4 requires a PowerPC G5 processor, Mac OS X v10.4 and Apple DVD Player 4.6 (or later) "

Can you playback HD DVD's in a regular dvdplayer or does this mean we can expect new optical drives in upcoming hardware updates? Or better: BluRay burners :D

[mduser63]

I think the fact that DVD Studio Pro now supports HD DVD authoring indicates that will be seeing Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD (more likely Blu-ray) drives in Macs soon. I assume that for now you have to have a DLT drive to run off a master for a HD DVD, but Apple will want to provide an easy way to burn your own quickly.

All in all, the upgrades are nice incremental upgrades, but I don't feel bad that I bought the Production Suite 2 weeks ago. Also, did anyone else notice that the regular price hasn't changed, but the educational price has gone up by $200 to $699 from $499? I wonder why they did that.

[VAmin]

...the educational price has gone up by $200 to $699 from $499? I wonder why they did that.

I still see $499

[cosmoed]

Are iMac updates out of the question? I mean it is just a small bump and graphics card update.

[mduser63]

I still see $499

Hmm, that's strange. Definitely $699 here.

[FFTT]

I just would like to thank all of you for the play by play.
and whoever for the translation software......
Really much appreciate your efforts!

To Apple
Wow, nice software, so now what are we running it on?

This is teetering on cruelty.

[Chaszmyr]

Thank god! No new Powermacs announced. That means we will see something big announced in June, instead of those sorry specs that Think Secret predicted.

PowerMacs will be announced either tomorrow or the next day, almost certainly.

[wdlove]

My prediction:
Software only.
New PowerMacs tomorrow... no dual core.

Well now you have bragging rights your are half correct on your prediction. I like the Prediction of new Power Mac, just hope the update will be something substantial, dual core would be nice.

[jscheiman]

PowerMacs will be announced either tomorrow or the next day, almost certainly.

Well I can no longer wait. I will be buying my new PM G5 this Wednesday. So unless something gets announced in the next 72 hours, I have reached my breaking point for my freelance buisness. I have goals to meet by mid-June and am pushing it as it is.

No matter what happens, I am very excited to be getting a new PM G5. It will be my first Apple tower computer!

[Lacero]

Any QT feed of said event. Sadly to say, I slept through much of the morning, so I missed out on all the hoopla.