AppleInsider Staff
The alleged screenshots were posted Wednesday by Twitter user "BWilks2001" and forwarded to AppleInsider. If legitimate, they offer a closer look at the design and features of Apple's upcoming 64-bit upgrade to Final Cut Studio.
The images and details posted online offer the first indication of an upcoming release of Motion 5. The current, third major revision of Final Cut Studio was released in July of 2009 with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4.
In addition to Motion 5, the new software releases from Apple will "supposedly" include a new version of Color, BWilks2001 wrote on Twitter.
"I assure you this is no Photoshop," they wrote. "I am not that talented."
Apple offered the first glimpse of Final Cut Pro X in April during the FCP User Group SuperMeet at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. There, the company revealed that the new upgrade would be available on the Mac App Store in June for $299, but made no mention of other Final Cut Studio applications.
Since then, Apple has not offered any new details on Final Cut Pro X, even though the software is set to arrive on the Mac App Store this month. Back in April, Apple promised that the new version of Final Cut Pro will be "as revolutionary as the first version of FCP."
Final Cut Pro has been rebuilt from the ground up and will include support for all processor cores through Grand Central Dispatch. The new version of Final Cut Pro will also support high-definition 4K resolution.
Other notable features previously highlighted by Apple include editing during import, scalable rendering, a resolution-independent playback system, fully color-managed Final Cut based on colorsync, people and shot detection, and audio clean-up.
An improved "magnetic timeline" will make sure that secondary audio in longer clips won't collide with other clips, while an inline precision editor will allow users to double-click the seam between two clips to open a timeline. Similar to iMovie, Final Cut Pro will present content in a film strip view.
Apple has also promised that the new Final Cut Pro has been designed to ensure that everything can be driven from the keyboard, while "localized adjustments" will allow users to select an object — like a face — to make adjustments only to that part of the image.
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woah...double rainbow. All the way across the sky!
No, seriously. Why the pearlescent look? I'm not getting how it provides useful data. Traditional RBG lines have given plenty of info. So I have to ask...
"What does it mean?!"
I am pretty impressed and excited by the look and feel of the new UI. . . Very exciting times!
GUI is looking great and great to see the possibility of a Motion update, hopefully all releasing soon
I would say this is legit. And if it isn't, Apple is definitely going to update the UI to a similar simple look.
FCS is so frign' powerful for the home / indie user I can't imagine it getting that much better. Certainly networking could be improved as this appears to be the biggest bellyache on the forums. But most folks out of the mainstream film/broadcast industry wouldn't really benefit. Apple has been focusing on improving the user experience with their products by simplifying the software (meaning easier to use not less powerful) and improving the ergonomics instead of just loading on every feature possible. I hope this will be another release of "it just works".
I suspect the cool piece will be integration of all wifi devices (would love a dedicated iPad controler for color correction, sound work, etc) and perhaps some iCloud integration. Perhaps with storage of keyboard prefs, window setups, etc. out in the stratosphere.
When is the new Logic Studio coming out?
Final Cut ==
Storage, Storage, Storage ==
Local (active) working Storage, Backup Storage, Archival/Collaboration/Retrieval Storage ==
Media Management, Local Network Server * , iCloud ServerThe missing component here, is a hardware/software implementation of the Local Network Server... Let's just call it "iCloud-Local Server".On top on the iCloud-Local and iCloud implementation, FCPX needs to provide a Media Management Solution that works the way "editors" work -- rather than the way computer file systems work.BTW, These shots look Good!