Apple NAB Announcements - Final Cut Server & Final Cut Studio 2 - including Color
Apple today made several announcements at NAB 2007 -
new products introduced include:
Final Cut Server - which is designed to take the grunt work of video editing away from your standard computer and put it on a centralized server. A 10 seat license for FCS is $999, with an unlimited seat license costing $1,999
Final Cut Studio 2 - including Final Cut Pro 6, ProRes 422 (which can compress 1TB of HD video down ot 170 Gbs), RED support, Shake and Motion are now integrated into Final Cut Pro (so you can access their templates without leaving FCP), Motion 3 (including some amazing 3d support), Soundtrack Pro 2, Color - a new application focusing on color management that should do for color what FCP has done for editing. FCS2 will cost $1,299, or $499 for an upgrade from FCS. FCP users can upgrade to FCS2 for only $699. Final Cut Studio 2 will be available next month.
Check out pics and live blogging from the keynote at Engadget for more info
Comments
Lonon
April 15th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
These are good products for professionals, but i think we were all expecting something more… ¿hardware?
Michael
April 15th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Lonon -
Yeah, it really is a big announcement for professionals, but consumers don’t have much of anything to look forward to from today’s announcement…except enjoying the entertainment that professionals create with these new tools…
How’s that for a spin?
Steve
April 15th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
wooo Soundtrack Pro 2 ye ye
Pau
April 16th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Shake and Motion were already integrated into in the previous version.
Michael
April 16th, 2007 at 11:39 am
@Pau -
Well they made a big deal about being able to use the templates from within FCP. That’s all I know. I’m not a FCS user.
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April 19th, 2007 at 6:00 am
[...] Final Cut Upgrade: One of the hits from NAB has been Apple’s announcement of Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Server. Most interesting to me are the release of Final Cut Server, for management of digital video media in a server distribution environment, and the drool-inducing support for 4k video (that’s 4,096 x 2,160 resolution) produced by the Red One camera. Check out the promo clip from Apple below. [Apple Gazette] [...]