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#1 2007-04-15 1:10 pm
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Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/15/appl … -nab-2007/
So far, Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Server. FCServer is cross-platform : edited
Apple Store is Down !
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#2 2007-04-15 1:21 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
Cross-platform? As in Mac/PC? hmm - maybe they just meant PPC/Intel.
I hope there's some new hardware! New Logic would make me happy too.
"Have a ton to cover, so we're going to dive right in" I like the sound of that!
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#3 2007-04-15 1:24 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
FC Server is cross-platform, not Studio. MacRumors made a mistake which they have corrected.
price for final cut server: $999 for 10 concurent users, unlimited = $1999
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#4 2007-04-15 1:29 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
New hardware encoder box !
"IO-HD" available in July.
Realtime SD-HD conversion
$ 3500
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#5 2007-04-15 1:33 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
ooh - new MacAttack bio-weapons! Shipping in August!
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#6 2007-04-15 1:38 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
From Engadget: "We took some of the great technology in Shake and brought SmoothCam down to Final Cut Pro, removes camera shaking."
that sounds cool
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#7 2007-04-15 1:52 pm
Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
Well between this and the AppleTV commercial I'm convinced Apple isn't abandoning computers in favor of gadgets as much as it's creating gadgets that act as a support structure for for their computer which act as a support structure for their gadgets.
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#8 2007-04-15 1:54 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
Soundtrack Pro 2 announced, with support for "surround sound".
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#9 2007-04-15 2:19 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
Compressor 3 announced. ".... now 3x faster."
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#10 2007-04-15 2:30 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
New application for color grading : "Color".
Apple knows no shame when it comes to trademarking the most common words.
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#11 2007-04-15 2:37 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
The Apple Store is back up.
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#12 2007-04-15 2:40 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
DVD Studio 4 is shown at the Store. is this new ?
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#13 2007-04-15 2:43 pm
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Nope. I wonder why they didn't update it.
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#14 2007-04-15 2:48 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
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 Recommended Configurations
The following are recommended for all applications:
• 2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources • 4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources Available Disk Space
• 4GB of disk space required to install all applications • Additional 62GB required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks): - 9GB for DVD Studio Pro content - 9GB for Motion templates and tutorial media - 24GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content - 12GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates - 8GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media
Thats a lot of space...
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#15 2007-04-15 2:53 pm
Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
ScifiterX wrote:
Well between this and the AppleTV commercial I'm convinced Apple isn't abandoning computers in favor of gadgets as much as it's creating gadgets that act as a support structure for for their computer which act as a support structure for their gadgets.
This is nice to see and a worthwhile upgrade, but I wonder if we would be getting all this if this wasn't already a mature and established product line.
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#16 2007-04-15 2:58 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
End of announcements.
Basically, Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 6, Motion 3, Color, Compressor 3, Smoothcam stuff, Soundtrack Pro 2), Final Cut Server and IO-HD.
No new Macs or iPods.
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#17 2007-04-15 4:40 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
I'm glad that's all that happened. I waited for the store to come back up with no hardware updates before zipping down to the Apple store to pick up my new MBP. 
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#18 2007-04-15 5:29 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
I just read through the engadget feed and all I can say is... Daaaammmmnnnnn.
I just got FCS a year ago and I still love it. Does everything I need it to (must convince self). I bought Shake a month ago mainly for the smoothcam node and to mess around with some rotoscoping and to have some better than average keying abilities.
So. Nope. Don't need it. I'm doing swell thank you.
But.
3D space in Motion? 5.1 surround in one track? Did you see all the speed of compressor? Send to motion without really having to send to motion? Mix and match formats, resolutions and frame rates? Oh and the match move. Sweet!
I am still geeking out over here.
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#19 2007-04-15 10:06 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
Meh, another disappointing event. I want new iLife, and new Leopard!
Alright, now, who wants to be transistorized?
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#20 2007-04-15 10:33 pm
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
(yawn)
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#22 2007-04-16 1:04 am
Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
CrashingtehWarehouse wrote:
Meh, another disappointing event. I want new iLife, and new Leopard!
It's NAB, a professional event for broadcasters; you shouldn't expect anything other than Final Cut and tools for video at a NAB Apple event. This is big for me and the users I support.
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#23 2007-04-16 2:09 am
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
I think the rumor mills about the Final Cut Extreme hardware was in fact the IoHD box that AJA is going to release; which uses Apple's new ProRes 422 codec embedded in hardware. I know exactly what will be on the wish list when I need to start doing HD at work.
Apple and AJA work very closely together, so it makes sense that the rumor mills would get that wrong.
The mix and match open timeline is a huge update; this feature should have been part of FCP5.
3D Motion looks very interesting, but without support to import motion data (camera moves) from 3D software such as Maya, Modo or Lightwave, it is probably not going to be adopted over After Effects.
All in all a great update for production folks.
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#24 2007-04-16 8:58 am
Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
mjsmitho wrote:
CrashingtehWarehouse wrote:
Meh, another disappointing event. I want new iLife, and new Leopard!
It's NAB, a professional event for broadcasters; you shouldn't expect anything other than Final Cut and tools for video at a NAB Apple event. This is big for me and the users I support.
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#25 2007-04-16 9:10 am
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Re: Apple Special Event April 15, 2007
Yeah, this is definitely a pro event. You aren't going to be using the stuff most likely.
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