NAB me some fruit.
so, today, at the NAB (national associations of broadcasters expo dealie) Apple had a presentation, and this is what was to be told:
NEW! Motion Create professional motion graphics for film, video, TV and DVDs using Motion, a breakthrough offering self-propelled animation technology and real-time previewing for spontaneous and intuitive motion graphics creation.Final Cut Pro HD Edit, finish and deliver HD, SD and DV media for film, video and TV using emmy-award winning, XML-enabled Final Cut Pro HD; now providing DVCPRO HD video support, the Digital Cinema Desktop and RT Extreme enhanced for HD.
DVD Studio Pro 3 Design, build and author state-of-the art DVDs using comprehensive authoring tools that include new auto-generated transitions, the Graphical View, DTS audio support and high quality HD to MPEG-2 encoding.
Shake 3.5 Design and composite stunning corrective and fantastic visual effects for film and HD using Shake. Render using Qmaster, the industrial-strength, scalable network rendering manager free with Shake for Mac OS X.
Xsan a high-performance enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at US$999. According to Apple, Xsan software combines "breakthrough performance with Apple's legendary ease-of-use for customers who require scalable, high-speed access to centralized shared data for video workflow and storage consolidation, and is the perfect complement to Apple's award-winning Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware."
The day was very fruitful.. let us see what happens tomorrow, according to rumors of new laptops. Today was software, and lots of it. DVD Studio Pro and Shake got some good updates, Final Cut Pro (HD) some minor, and the NEW program Motion!
NAB me some fruit, Part 2
Today, in a more silent manner, Apple updated its portable line of iBooks and Powerbooks. Nothing major; hard drive and processor and RAM upgrades. Some price drop... I really wanted it to be a G5 PowerBook, how sad I am.