NAB: Final Cut Server, Final Cut Studio 2, ProRes 422, IO-HD

[Reach]

Great, I was waiting for this to buy, and hoping I wouldn't need the Adobe Master Suite for AfterEffects, and now I don't (Design Premium will do fine for me). This upgrade for Motion addresses the things I wanted, and the rest seems sweet too, nice job Apple. Seems LiveType is gone and replaced by better text-functions in Motion?

 

[zioxide]

Site is up: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

 

[mklos]

For all the whiners:

 

[ortuno2k]

Yep...in other words, YAWNN...no new Macs, no new iPods...really boring for people outside the industry.

OMG can you people stop being so narrow minded?
THIS EVENT IS FOR PROFESSIONALS ONLY!

Now you should bitch and moan if they release this at the WWDC, but this event is for this type of announcements ONLY.
Geez.

 

[pdpfilms]

Very worthwhile FCS 2 upgrade. $499 from FCS1 and $699 from any version of FCP all the way back to the beginning so no penalty for doing the FCP to FCS upgrade for $199 and everyone who missed it can now jump to FCS2 for only $699 which is really great for all who missed the $199 deal during this past year which did not include FCP 1, 2 & 3.

Only Academic 4 owners who didn't upgrade to FCS1 lost this time as they can only buy FCS2 for $699 academic and not get commercial FCS2 for $499 like those who did.

Well... Any FCS/FCP academic user still has to pay the full $1299 for the commercial version, or $699 for the Academic version. Shouldn't there be a more affordable option to facilitate academics upgrading to commercial software?

 

[hoop]

Wow - you can dump any type of clip into the timeline without any rendering - that certainly makes my job a lot easier! We've got all sorts of formats I have to sift through and sort out.

Colour looks amazing too. Although I did just spend £30 on a FCP colour correction book, so it's kinda annoying too

 

[Much Ado]

really boring for people outside the industry.

And what about for the people IN the industry... you know, the people who acutally attend NAB.



Some great stuff announced. Here's to hoping for a RED camera and FCS2 for Christmas... (*begins to dream*)

 

[SWC]

Well... Any FCS/FCP academic user still has to pay the full $1299 for the commercial version, or $699 for the Academic version. Shouldn't there be a more affordable option to facilitate academics upgrading to commercial software?

For what you're getting $1299 is still a hell of a deal.

 

[bearbo]

Yep...in other words, YAWNN...no new Macs, no new iPods...really boring for people outside the industry.

that's like you going to a basketball game and at the end of game you stand up and scream "this is bloody boring for a baseball fan"

get a life. perhaps there's a reason that lawyers aren't apple's top priority.

 

[whatever]

Yes! Motion 3 has 3D! Goodbye After Effects.

Motion is a pretty cool program. Apple actually offers a 30 day free trial on their website (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/motiontrial.html), it allows you to do everything but save.

 

[aafuss1]

It looks like Apple's added some Babya Logic style features in Soundtrack Pro 2.

Such as a spectrum frequency view-obviously Apple has copied Babya Logic 2's Logic Spectrum Viewer.

Apple's:
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/04/dsc_3205.jpg

Ours:
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/536/babyaspectrum1vr0.jpg


Seems like they don't want MS copying their ideas-but they have copied some of my Babya software features.

 

[TheAnswer]

For all the whiners:

But that's a Tissuebox Pro™...most of the whiners are consumer level users who had unreasonable expectations of iPods and iMacs, etc. They aren't in the market to use the Tissuebox Pro™, they'll need an iTissuebox™.

 

[twoodcc]

well i love the new software, but where's the new hardware?

 

[bearbo]

But that's a Tissuebox Pro™...most of the whiners are consumer level users who had unreasonable expectations of iPods and iMacs, etc. They aren't in the market to use the Tissuebox Pro™, they'll need an iTissuebox™.

lol, and i like how the Tissuebox Pro™ has a metallic finish.

 

[hyperpasta]

well i love the new software, but where's the new hardware?

It came out last week

 

[SWC]

It looks like Apple's added some Babya Logic style features in Soundtrack Pro 2.

Such as a spectrum frequency view-obviously Apple has copied Babya Logic 2's Logic Spectrum Viewer.

Apple's:
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/04/dsc_3205.jpg

Ours:
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/536/babyaspectrum1vr0.jpg


Seems like they don't want MS copying their ideas-but they have copied some of my Babya software features.

and just like they said to you on hdforindies other software has had this as far back as 1998. Doing a quick google search shows you released this back in 2005. A long time after the originals.

EDIT: Looks like it was your version 2 that introduced that. So not even as far back as 2005. Looks like it was about 11 months ago. So even you are 8 years after the original.

 

[TheAnswer]

lol, and i like how the Tissuebox Pro™ has a metallic finish.

The metallic case and the standard Quad or optional Octo-ply tissue (both with advanced Multi-Quilting™ technology) are the key features of the Tissuebox Pro™.

 

[G3blues]

It looks like Apple's added some Babya Logic style features in Soundtrack Pro 2.

Such as a spectrum frequency view-obviously Apple has copied Babya Logic 2's Logic Spectrum Viewer.

Apple's:
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/04/dsc_3205.jpg

Ours:
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/536/babyaspectrum1vr0.jpg


Seems like they don't want MS copying their ideas-but they have copied some of my Babya software features.

You are going to have to post better shots than that. Wait till it comes out and then you can compare

 

[steve_hill4]

For all the whiners:

For all the fan boys too!!

 

[mashinhead]

i wonder when apple will stop annoucing products before they are released. These premature announcements are getting ridiculous.

 

[pdpfilms]

For what you're getting $1299 is still a hell of a deal.

Thanks for pointing that out, but it's nowhere near as good of a deal as other upgraders.

 

[Alpinism]

Final cut studio 2 releasing next month. SO that be around 15th May. I think i might wait another month to get it together with the *fingers crossed* new hardware (MP or MBP) if any at the WWDC in june.

 

[pdpfilms]

i wonder when apple will stop annoucing products before they are released. These premature announcements are getting ridiculous.

...Especially when they don't actually come out on the predicted date (read: tv, OSX 10.5)

 

[Voidness]

Minimum system requirements to install all Final Cut Studio applications

• A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor.
• 1GB of RAM
• An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
• A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
• Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
• QuickTime 7.1.6 or later
• A DVD drive for installation

Haha! So FCS2 will work on an iBook G4, but won't work on a MacBook! All because of that pesky Intel graphics

 

[Multimedia]

DVD SP 4 Supports HD-DVD If You Have A Writer In or Out

No, it only supports DVD although you can make a high def DVD (NOT HD DVD) that plays only in Macs.

No. It supports HD-DVD if you have a HD-DVD Writer inside or out. But not Blu-ray®.