Apple NAB announcement summary
My favorite live blogging is always from Engadget.
My summary:
- New Final Cut Digital Asset Management/Transcoding Server: $999/10 users or $1999 for unlimited users (available summer)
- Final Cut Studio 2
- Final Cut Pro 6
- ProRes 422: compression for HD (1TB -> 170GB “at same quality”)
- Support for Sony’s new HDCAM SR 1080p60, Silicon Imaging’s Red Camera
- Aja-built IO-HD input box for encoding ProRes 422 in real-time on external box ($3495)
- Open-format timeline: mix formats, resolutions, framerates
- Smooth-cam camera shake elimination (from Shake)
- Better Motion integration
- Motion3
- Match-moving
- more 3D
- Paint
- Audio-driven animation
- SoundtrackPro2
- Better 5.1 support
- 5.1 and stereo in same project
- frequency spectrum editing (ripped off from Audition/Soundbooth)
- Video HUD for better synching
- “conform” feature (not sure what that is yet)
- Compressor3
- Faster
- More codecs
- Preview overlays and watermarks with a before and after slider
- Integrated chapter markers
- Better multi-threading
- $499 upgrade, $1299 new, $699 to upgrade from FCP
- Available May
- Final Cut Pro 6
- Color (new application)
- Color grading
- looks like this what at least part of the Shake team is doing now (my guess)
- Same UI for 3-way color correction with
- RGB and luma curves
- lift
- gamma
- gain
- visualization of color in 3D space
- Mattes from chroma, luma, saturation, custom vignettes, hue and saturation curves
- Color effects — string them together with a node tree
- Geometry
- included in Final Cut Studio 2
Wow, so FCS 2 was expected, but a lot more was also expected in this announcement given that Apple announced the 8-core MacPro a couple weeks ago with crummy video cards and no new iLife for ’07 and lappys and iPod designs getting a little stale. Wonder what else would have been announced today if Apple hadn’t announced the delay of Leopard earlier this week?
I just realized that there was no update to DVD Studio Pro. Hrm, wonder why…
[added links to the apple website and comment about DVD Studio later at 3:51 pm]
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