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Final Cut Pro 5, Motion 2, Sountrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro 4

I don't know if this means anything at all but why is it that the powermacs no longer can be upgraded to a ATI Radeon 9800 ? They only have 2 graphics card possibilities for the 2.5 G5? Radeon 9600 and GeForce 6800? They dont even have it on the learn more.Is just because they ran out of stock or is it more then that?

What the heck?
 
Good updates geared for the users who are attending the conference.
At least there wasn't a "and one more thing, announcing the iPod photo HD with widescreen." ( wait that is a Sony PSP)

Hope to see some Powerbooks That can run this new software, which is available in May.

remember, the during the financial results call, they reiterated that PB G5 was the 'Mother' of all thermal challenges. Mother's day is May 8, this software is available in May, Tiger will be out Just before May.

I Highly doubt that Apple would release this softwe requiring a G5 and not have a PB G5 that can run it.
 
Ambrose Chapel said:
nab goes for a few more days. and didn't last year they announce software one day and hardware the next?
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That's correct PBs and iBooks were announced on the day after the presentation. However, I would expect the new hardware to ship with Tiger. That's why I'm saying we have to wait one more week.
 
Ambrose Chapel said:
well, TS predicted:



they were right about everything but the new pro video app. as for all those codenames and everything, TS said they included bundled apps with FCP.
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Certainly true-I also predicted new versions of the pro-apps. Plus the Soundtrack name has returned-but now is called Soundtrack Pro (with new features ).
 
Zaty said:
That's correct PBs and iBooks were announced on the day after the presentation. However, I would expect the new hardware to ship with Tiger. That's why I'm saying we have to wait one more week.
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Heh! You do realize they can announce them and ship them with Tiger in 2 weeks, right? Apple has announced products over a month before they ship, so this seems like a pretty bad reason to not announce new hardware.
 
On-the-fly multi-camera editing, a specific Foley/post-pro audio app, HD intergrated DVD...

This is a good upgrade, and I think it points to Apples continuing evolution of pro-level integration.

Add Logic to that little mix and you're heading for an entirely Apple-based production studio.

I'd buy that for a dollar. :D
 
There is a new app

Soundtrack Pro might as well be a new application -- it is a dramatic announcement for people doing any post work, or sound design.
 
CalfCanuck said:
Soundtrack Pro sounds promising to me.

What are it's specs? How many channels does it support?
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I don't know, but if Apple manages to do what they did with FCP, they're going to give themselves even more of a reputation in the film/video/audio industry. I'm sure they've already cut a nice chunk out of potential Avid costumers...so you never know, if Soundtrack Pro is on the ball, we may start to see some ProTools users making the jump. It sounds like you don't need any proprietary hardware to run soundtrack either.
 
Nicky G said:
Soundtrack Pro might as well be a new application -- it is a dramatic announcement for people doing any post work, or sound design.
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I agree, I'm interested to what is has to offer.
 
simX said:
Heh! You do realize they can announce them and ship them with Tiger in 2 weeks, right? Apple has announced products over a month before they ship, so this seems like a pretty bad reason to not announce new hardware.
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Yes, I do realise they can do that. However, I just think they will wait like they did with the G4 iBook back in 2003. To clarify my point, I was thinking of iBooks and eMacs. PMs and iMacs might only come after April 29.
 
WinterMute said:
On-the-fly multi-camera editing, a specific Foley/post-pro audio app, HD intergrated DVD...

This is a good upgrade, and I think it points to Apples continuing evolution of pro-level integration.

Add Logic to that little mix and you're heading for an entirely Apple-based production studio.

I'd buy that for a dollar. :D
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I totally agree. Sooner or later Apple's consumer apps will benefit from new technologies that were developed for the pro apps.
 
Tiger is more important

bdkennedy1 said:
Weird that they didn't update the home page or anything.
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As cool as this update is, Tiger is still more important; and with Longhorn being pushed back until the end of 2006 we should be hearing about the next OS X release.
 
It looks like apple never tested out their new pages :p

While looking around at the new software I encountered tons of dead links.
 
xsnightclub said:
Hope to see some Powerbooks That can run this new software, which is available in May.

remember, the during the financial results call, they reiterated that PB G5 was the 'Mother' of all thermal challenges. Mother's day is May 8, this software is available in May, Tiger will be out Just before May.

I Highly doubt that Apple would release this softwe requiring a G5 and not have a PB G5 that can run it.
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Maybe a high end PB with a G5- and physically larger than the others. But why go with a G5 when you can use a G4 7748 or 8641:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=DRPPCDUALCORE
 
HD DVD or Blu Ray?

The answer is both. This is from Apple's PR site:

Apple.com said:
Apple is committed to both emerging high definition DVD standards—Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Apple is an active member of the DVD Forum which developed the HD DVD standard, and last month joined the Board of Directors of the Blu-ray Disc Association.
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Apple's demo today in Las Vegas included a prototype HD-DVD player made by Toshiba, which is of course a rival to Sony's Blu Ray.

autrefois said:
A Sunday announcement???
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Yes, as FCP has had Sunday announcements at NAB for each of the past 6 years now (FCP 1, 2, 3, 4, 4.5 and now 5). This is nothing out of the ordinary or even noteworthy.

TylerL said:
Distributed Encoding in DVD Studio Pro HD makes a happy happy person.
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Same here! H.264 encoding takes a lot of CPU effort. I'm glad Apple includes this feature.
 
iris_failsafe said:
YES!!!!
Rest in peace Discreet....

and AVID, you are next..... :cool: :D
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NOOO...okay, i don't care about avid but I love combustion (and discreet is more high high end anyways, most of their stuff runs on its own hardware and is mucho mucho expensive and an industry standard). Motion is not a compositing tool on the level of Combustion, and shake is wayyy more expensive. Motion and combustion make a very affordable and powerful compositing/motion graphics combination.

This FCPstudio is a fabulous update, as soon as the new PMacs come out, i'm kissing a couple thousand goodbye nice and quick. I know i'm a realistic optimist but i have a strong feeling the new hardware will not dissapoint.
 
grizzlybrice said:
Is there a difference in the Academic version of the Final Cut Studio and the normal one? If not, then I may have a new perchase coming up.

Thanks.


Brice
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Nope - just price.
 
powerbook g5 in little over a month

first theyll force people who want to use this software and have the money to buy a PMG5 to do so, and then let the mortal get what they want... which is yo get a powerbook G5, I also thought of the "mother of all heating issues" to be reated to mother's day... so I guess with this release of pro apps we are heading in the right direction towards a PBG5 release...

we are very close.
 
The new features in Soundtrack Pro is going to piss off a lot of Logic Pro users. Several of the features have been asked for for years, and now a $300 app gets them first? They did the same thing with Garageband. If this kind of thing continues, there is going to be a mass defection from Logic to another alternative.

fucanay
 
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