Sam OliverThe first is Final Cut Studio 3.0, the Cupertino-based firm's second major overhaul to its professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X bundling component applications Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack, DVD Studio Pro, Color, and Compressor.
Although earlier rumors had pegged the software for release in early spring, the suite — code named "Sideways" — is still undergoing beta and compatibility tests with Snow Leopard, the company's next-gen operating system believed to be integral to a wide variety of professional application upgrades still under development at Apple and likely to arrive after the OS's summer release.
While details are few and far between, AppleInsider has been able to confirm that recent distributions of Sideways are members of the 30A1xx build train and weigh in just shy of 3 gigabytes.
Separately, Apple has also been evaluating an update to Final Cut Server code named "Dingo." Details surrounding this update are similarly vague, but its focus is believed to be incremental support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard among other tweaks. Unlike Studio, however, its milestone markers suggest the update will arrive as a point release to the current edition of Final Cut Server and not represent a completely new offering.
AppleInsider previously reported on in-progress updates to a handful of Final Cut Studio's component applications, namely Motion (changes unknown) Color 1.5 (Snow Leopard compatibility) and ProRes Codec (unknown). It's unclear whether these updates will precede Final Cut Studio 3.0 as updates to Final Cut Studio 2.0, or come bundled with 3.0.
Additional details will be reported if and when they become available.
AppleInsider correspondent Kyla-L contributed to this report.
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I expect Apple to demo parts of FCS 3.0 at WWDC to show the prowess of multi-tasking with Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL and Quicktime X.
As the launch of Snow Leopard looms I expect for a special event to be held to fully flesh out the offerings.
We'll finally see Phenomenon and Color will be demoed with a more Apple like UI though it'll still familiar to color grading Pro.
Logic Studio and Aperture will follow as well. I think these Apple Pro apps will be connected in ways that they aren't today. There's an opportunity to make each of them a peer application by sharing common backing engines and more.
I initially thought that Apple would not hitch a new release of FCS onto Snow Leopard but it seems that they've indeed taking the heart the idealogy that SL represents the foundation for the future of OS X and that means they'll going to ship a major content creation app on a new OS platform. That's interesting.
It sure would be cool if they would finally fold more features from Shake into Motion... sigh...
http://www.canon5dtips.com/2009/05/h...-in-fcp-rumor/
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Folks. I think I have been sitting on this news long enough. As you all know, one of the most frustration thing about video editing in HD is that you can never work directly with the original clips without some serious performance hit and frame skipping.
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So that new Final Cut Studio 3 I was talking about that’s being announced at WWDC? Apparently the two years we waited wasn’t in vain. Read about this new feature that’s coming. Now wipe the tears of joy that are inevitably streaming from your face.
The solution to this issue, so far, has been to either use proxies or transcode the clip into a format that can be rendered in real time (ex: ProRes 422). Each of these solutions has a disadvantage. Proxies add complexity to the workflow (I wish Premiere or FCP would handle them like After Effects does) and if you transcode to another codec, you are losing some image quality (they don’t handle the color the same way). The lost might be minimal but it is there. That is why some people just keep editing in H.264 and accept the ever present render bar as a necessary evil.
Well, it is time to rejoice because very soon all of these issues are going to be history! I have learned that the next version of Quicktime (coming with Snow Leopard) is going to allow real time editing of the Canon 5DMrkII H.264 clips!
After dinking around with iMovie 09 and seeing how Apple is able to do a lot of realtime stuff on a simple Mac I'm in agreement. A Mac Pro will probably handle AVCHD in realtime though I expect ProRes 422 will still have advantages.
http://macsoda.com/2009/04/21/fcs-3-where-is-it/
Get ready for next Monday… its gonna be big.
I'm sure he meant Monday June 8th
It's about freaking time, it has been over a year since the last Soundtrack "Pro" update (and that was the last bugfix, not the last major release) and the software is still way to buggy to depend on for serious work.
Is apple finally going to get it right this time around? Or will this be a few bugfixes (but not enough), a few new features (although still missing some huge ones in every other audio app), and a bunch of new bugs that will go unfixed for another year or more?
I'm dying to get my hands on 3.0, but I suspect that it may be like 2.0 all over again and be totally unusable until one or two bugfix releases ship.
And what is up with Logic, yet another "pro" app stuck in the doldrums while competitors improve by leaps and bounds?