...................... Apple eNews April 17, 2003 Volume 6, Issue 8 ......................
In This Issue:
1. Leap Ahead with Final Cut Pro 4 2. Shattering Authoring Expectations 3. Shake Stirs Up Compositing 4. For John LaCroix, It's Butter or Nothing 5. It Now Touts Tabs 6. What's New?
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http://www.apple.com/enews/2003/04/17enews1.html
1. Leap Ahead with Final Cut Pro 4
What can you give the video professional who craves everything?
Final Cut Pro 4, of course.
Leaping ahead of competing products, Final Cut Pro 4 provides video artists and editors with a fully customizable standards-based, nonlinear editing system that delivers uncompromising quality and over 300 new features, enhancements, and tools, including:
RT Extreme A software-based real-time effects architecture, RT Extreme takes advantage of the PowerPC G4 to pump out an increased number of simultaneous real-time video streams and hundreds of real-time effects.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/effects.html
LiveType The ultimate titling tool, LiveType lets you create full-featured, professional-quality animated titling quickly and easily. And with LiveFonts, revolutionary new animated font technology, individual characters take on expressive characteristics and animations of their own.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/livetype.html
Soundtrack An intuitive music composition tool, Soundtrack lets you score your movie and create royalty-free soundtracks. In fact, Final Cut Pro 4 comes with thousands of music loops and sound effects that are ready?and easy?to incorporate in your projects.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/soundtrack.html
Professional Audio Entirely new in Final Cut Pro 4, Professional Audio tools (built on top of Mac OS X Core Audio) support 24-channel audio output, a 99 track mixer, real-time filters and audio effects, and precise fader automation with keyframe thinning.
Like to read even more about the newest version of Apple's Emmy award-winning software?
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/
2. Shattering Authoring Expectations
Redefining DVD authoring once again, Apple introduces DVD Studio Pro 2. Completely rebuilt from the ground up, the application offers a sleek new workflow and a full set of professional features.
In addition to a refined interface that's easier to use, DVD Studio Pro 2 (expected in June) offers a complete set of professionally designed templates with a library of styles, buttons, and backgrounds, making it a snap to create elegantly designed DVDs in a few simple steps.
Using the new Menu Editor, you can create full-featured menus and make connections in just one step. The new timeline editor--inspired by Final Cut Pro--lets you integrate as many as 8 video angles, 8 audio tracks, and 32 subtitles; perform basic trimming; merge assets; and control chapter markers. It also includes a brand-new MPEG-2 encoder and comes bundled with Compressor, the same transcoding tool shipping with Final Cut Pro 4.
Best of all, if you buy Digital Studio Pro 1.5 today, you can upgrade to DVD Studio Pro 2 for just $29.95 through our Up-To-Date program. (The normal upgrade price is $199.95.) For more details, visit:
http://www.apple.com/dvdstudiopro/newversion/
3. Shake Stirs Up Compositing
For the last six years, the films that took home Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects shared one other thing in common.
Shake.
Required courseware at many film schools worldwide, Shake is already the motion picture industry's leading compositing and visual effects software for film and HD. And Shake 3 (expected in June) promises only to add to its already glowing reputation with such new post-production features as:
* The ability to distribute rendering loads across a cluster of Xserve or Power Mac G4 computers using Shake Qmaster network management software and an unlimited network rendering license (Mac OS X version) * Enhanced import abilities: import QuickTime, layered Photoshop, RPF/RLA files (3D animation), and many others * Trackable paint strokes and rotoshapes to automate the animation process * Resolution independent broadcast monitor support lets you preview project accurately (Mac OS X) * Enhanced audio support: play, scrub, visualize, and synchronize audio files (Mac OS X)
For more on Shake, visit:
http://www.apple.com/shake/
4. For John LaCroix, It's Butter or Nothing
"It's not worth it to me to put out something mediocre," says LaCroix. "Everybody can make good toast--but we've got the butter."
The "butter," in this case, comes packaged in every multimedia magazine LaCroix creates for 411 Productions, where he mixes his craft (DVD producer) and his sport (skateboarding) seamlessly and where he outperforms for a very demanding audience.
For skateboarders, surfers, snowboarders, and BMX enthusiasts, "pictures and words just aren't enough." Instead LaCroix delivers what they crave. Video. In a medium they covet. DVD.
But since satisfying his audience is no walk in the park, LaCroix surrounds himself with only the best tools. Notably, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. After all, he explains, "I want to blow minds with everything we do, and I can't compromise on quality."
http://www.apple.com/pro/video/lacroix/index.html
5. It Now Touts Tabs
Safari, that is. The new Public Beta 2 of Apple's turbo browser for Mac OS X offers a series of new features, including:
* One window, many sites. Tabbed Browsing, which you can set up in Preferences, make it easy to keep multiple sites handy without gobs of windows cluttering up your screen. Simply keep them all open at the same time, each site safely ensconced in its own tab.
* Turn on Autofill (in Preferences), and you'll need to enter your vital statistics--name, address, zip, email--just once; next time, Forms Autofill will do the heavy lifting. (It can even remember passwords and access info from Address Book.)
* History may repeat itself elsewhere, but in Safari, Privacy Reset lets you erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear the Downloads window, and remove cookies. All in one swell foop.
So what else is new? Come to the Safari site and find out.
http://www.apple.com/safari/
6. What's New?
At last week's National Association of Broadcasters show, Peachpit Press announced that it is working with Apple to create a series of books that will serve as the core curriculum in the new Apple Pro Training Series, titles that can help digital video and audio enthusiasts prepare for and achieve Apple certification in Final Cut Pro 4, DVD Studio Pro 2, Shake 3, and Logic 6. Find out more at:
http://www.peachpit.com/applebooklet
"Because it saves you money. Because it saves you time. Because it gives you the cutting-edge tools that allow your business to work at its very highest level."
That's why color management expert Son Do urges clients to embrace Mac OS X. He's just one of a series of creative pros who enthusiastically extol the benefits of Mac OS X in Apple's newest online seminar (free registration required). Visit the site, play the QuickTime clips, and download the Pfeiffer performance report on the new Power Mac G4 computers:
Now Shipping. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets. Available at the Apple Store, the new game from Aspyr Media whisks you off to Hogwarts and immerses you in the world of magic and Quidditch.
http://www.apple.com/enews/store/potter.html
Your pro digital one-stop shop.
If you're looking for information on Apple's lineup of professional software products--Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Shake, and Logic--a quick way to find solutions for Broadcast, Film and Television, Commerical-Post production, and other markets, and events calendar for seminars and shows, and the newest downloads, bookmark our Pro Software website. And come back often.
http://www.apple.com/software/pro/
Unleash the hounds.
It's time for more Sims excitement for your virtual side of life. This time it's the furry release of The Sims: Unleashed from Aspyr. Furry? This latest expansion pack brings pets into the fold! Well actually, that could be feathery or scaly as well, so why not bring home an adorable addition to your Sims' family today.
New worlds of musical experimentation open up when great guitarists pick up different instruments or change tunings. Such was the case with jazz master Pat Metheny, whose new album features him soloing on his new baritone acoustic guitar. Metheny's pure style is apparent in this rendition of "Song for the Boys" from the album "One Quiet Night," due for release in May.
If you haven't installed QuickTime 6, you can get it here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
We hope you enjoyed reading today's issue of Apple eNews. We'll bring you more news on Thursday, May 1.
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