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DVD Studio Pro 2, Final Cut Pro 4 and Shake 3 - Announced!

Re: DVD Studio Pro: now $499!

Originally posted by Silencio
Talk about a buzzkill for Adobe Encore ($550)!

Both won't hit the street until the summer at least.
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Didn't notice that.... all good though!! 😉

But I hope Apple doesn't f**k Adobe off by too much!! 😱 😛 😛
 
Distributed Rendering

No kididng. Check out this info about the Rendezvous rendering:

" Shake for Mac OS X uses Apple?s Rendezvous? networking technology to automatically identify available render nodes and clusters on a network while load balancing optimizes usage across each machine in the workflow. If one Xserve or Power Mac G4 goes offline, built-in fault tolerance allows Shake Qmaster to re-route tasks to other render nodes in the cluster, so the project gets done on time"

Definitely a time saving feature.
 
System Requirements
Mac OS

Power Mac G4 or PowerBook G4 with 800MHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor; or Xserve with 1GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor


QuickTime 6.1 or later


256MB of RAM or more


1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files


Graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory and OpenGL hardware acceleration


Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color


Three-button mouse
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Based on these requirements even a 17" PB user can only use the software with an external monitor. No PB has 1024 of vertical res.
 
Browsed over the Apple site, everything looks really cool! Sure I personally have no use for Shake, but could maybe get into DVDSP and FCP. Now there are some big differences to differenciate FCP from Final Cut Express. I was looking in my university bookstore and the edu discount for FCP is huge. It is only $299! Final Cut Express is only $50 less with the discount. With those prices I'd easily pay the $50 more for FCP 4 (assuming it has the same discount). I also like the design integration between the products. Good stuff all around. Now let loose with some new hardware and Apple should be racking in a lot of money.
 
Originally posted by jholzner
Another question...why doesn't Apple sell shake and logic on their online store???
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Well, I don't know about Shake, but Logic 6 is available from the Apple Store (just click 'Buy Now'). It has a listed shipping time of 2 to 4 weeks...

As far as their not releasing much of this yet, at least the have an 'Up-To-Date' program in effect which states that anyone buying the older version now will automatically get the new version when it ships.
 
Arrggghhhh! I gotta find some money for FCP4 & DVDSP4 now! Oh well, it seems like they did a really great job on the updates.

Apple seems to be scoring a lot lately!

Great job Apple!
 
shake requires some hardcore s*** to sell. you have to have all this authorization to sell it and you actually have to go talk to a video authorized reseller to get it. its not something you just go buy. plus if you look it requires a annual manintence fee, whatever thats for.

iJon
 
wow, wow, WoW!

DVD SP is fast becoming my favorite app' and now at $499 - with templates and align and a timeline - I can't wait to try this - and Compressor look great!

Much more of an upgrade than I expected!
 
FINALLY, reasonable DVD Studio Pro pricing

Apple basically screwed those of us who use non superdrive equipped and non-superdrive capable machines by overpricing DVD Studio Pro for hobbiests and making iDVD unavailable to anyone who didn't buy a new machine.

This price reduction finally brings the promise of the DV revolution to _all_ mac users.

Hallelujah! Thanks Steve!
 
I wish Apple would buy Maya. That would complete their lineup...I can't believe they haven't already...or maybe they've tried and couldn't get them to sell. Now all we need is a Logic Lite! I don't use any of these products but I'm still really excited for Apple. This is gonna be a great year and it's only April!!
 
Very nice indeed.

DVDSP is even better than what I thought. I like Encores interface but DVDSP 2.0 is even better. And cheapter.

FCP4- Wow. Built in CT, Build in Livetype(from Prismo).
Royalty Free Audio.
Audio Mixer with Audio Unit support
More RT functions.

Same price 😀

FCP and DVDSP 2.0 are definitely in my future. Oh and Logic Audio too.
 
Originally posted by jholzner
I wish Apple would buy Maya. That would complete their lineup...I can't believe they haven't already...or maybe they've tried and couldn't get them to sell. Now all we need is a Logic Lite! I don't use any of these products but I'm still really excited for Apple. This is gonna be a great year and it's only April!!
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logic express would be very nice. i know lots of people who like to record there own music and get into that stuff, just need a cheaper way to start off.

iJon
 
Originally posted by RBMaraman
Great news! I'm extremely excited to try out these great new products. Then I saw when they would be available:

Final Cut Pro 4 - Available in JUNE.
DVD Studio Pro 2 - Available in AUGUST.

I'm glad to see they announced the products, but I'm mad I would be able to get a copy of them for several months.
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First people bitch that Apple doesn't announce stuff ahead of time. Then they announce something and people bitch.
 
Has anybody noticed that in some of the tour movies, the menu bar is not at the top of the desktop. It kinda floats over the desktop... Maybe a new feature of 10.3? Interesting...
 
Originally posted by G4scott
The UI is not the FCP UI, but it's not the brushed metal interface either. It's like brushed metal, except all grey...
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Maybe this is a hint. Could this be the Aqua and Brushed metal replacements for 10.3? 😕
 
Re: August?!

Originally posted by moby1
I just read the small print...DVDSP 2 update in August....🙁
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It's not that far buddy....

DVD Studio Pro 1.5 doesn't become obsolete over night!!

Get planning those projects that can utilise the updates feature set of DVD SP 2!!

Wicled!! 😉
 
Originally posted by iJon
logic express would be very nice. i know lots of people who like to record there own music and get into that stuff, just need a cheaper way to start off.

iJon
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There is. Emagic just announced Logic Gold which has alot of the new functionality of the Platinum version but not as many integrated effects and synths.

Shakes Unlimited Rendering Clients is going to sell a lot of the new Xserve Cluster Nodes.

Nice to see Rendezvous added to such a high level application. Apple's definitely driving Hardware sales.

Wow FCP4 looks good. If it's stable as it should be it's another homerun for Apple.
 
Originally posted by iJon
shake requires some hardcore s*** to sell. you have to have all this authorization to sell it and you actually have to go talk to a video authorized reseller to get it. its not something you just go buy. plus if you look it requires a annual manintence fee, whatever thats for.

iJon
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It is not clear, but I think only the Linux and IRIX versions require the annual fee. It is a holdover from the pricing model Nothing Real used.

When Apple bought Nothing Real (the makers of Shake), they came out with a MacOS X version at half the price with no annual fee. It is as much a way to sell Apple hardware as anything. In fact, I think Apple offered to let Shake licence owners convert every one of their licences into 2 MacOS X licences.

The fact that the new version includes an unlimited render farm licence for MacOS X seems like a way to sell XServe Cluster Nodes. The fact that it uses Rendezvous to discover and configure nodes is just cool. I hope Apple makes that capability available via an SDK for other software to use.
 
Originally posted by dricci
Maybe this is a hint. Could this be the Aqua and Brushed metal replacements for 10.3? 😕
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Possibly, but doubtful.... the dark grey has been in PC and Discreet products for a long, long time.... Dark grey was also the colour of the Next OS....
 
Originally posted by Wonder Boy
Could 3-button mice be standard with all new powermacs?
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No..... 😛

Shakes a specialist app that requires it... OSX doesn't!!

Option maybe!! 😉
 
jeez, i keep getting hammered with mis information, there is a lower end version on logic and the shake things, thanks for clearing me up guys.

iJon
 
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