Seen as the industry standard when it comes to professional video editing, Final Cut Pro 7 is the latest update for the Emmy Award-winning software and was released today with new versions of Apple's ProRes codecs.
This update comes as part of the overall Final Cut Studio refresh that includes over 100 new features including iChat Theater support for real-time collaboration and enhanced tools for Motion 4 to give 3D shadows, reflections and depth of field for prefessional visual effects.
"With 1.4 million users and 50pc of the market, Final Cut Pro is the number one professional video editing application," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.
"The new Final Cut Studio includes more than 100 new features and dramatically expands Apple's ProRes family of codecs so editors can work in the studio with the highest quality video or on location at low bandwidths."
As well as an updated Final Cut Studio, Apple has also released a brand new Logic Studio that brings with it major upgrades to both Logic Pro and MainStage.
How cool is this? Logic Pro 9 has new Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins for realistic virtual guitar amps and stompbox effects. Rock on!
"Amp Designer recreates 25 legendary vintage and modern amp heads in beautiful detail with matching controls and 25 paired speaker cabinets that emulate the sound and feel of a guitar running through a real tube amplifier," says Apple.
You can pick from three different microphone types that can be positioned in 3D space to capture the right guitar tone while Pedalboard has 30 guitar stompbox pedals that can be arranged in any order to produce a wide variety of effects including overdrive, distortion, fuzz, delay, chorus, flange, phaser, tremolo, treble boost and wah.
Logic Studio is available on the Apple store for €499 while Final Cut Studio retails at €999, or if you have the current one you can get an upgrade for €299.
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