Final Cut Studio 2 and Server announced today
04/15/2007 04:35 PM Filed under: Apple
At its special event being held at NAB in Las Vegas
on Sunday, Apple unveiled on Sunday Final Cut Studio
2, it's production suite for film editors. As part of
the update Apple will release Final Cut Pro 6,
Soundtrack 2, Compressor 3, Motion 3 and a new
application called Color. Apple also announced Final
Cut Server, a new server application that works
seamlessly with Final Cut Studio 2. The new product
is aimed at creative professionals that need to deal
with massive amounts of digital content and shrinking
production schedules
Final Cut Server
Media asset management, workflow automation, automated encode and publish. It includes a cross platform interface so PC users aren't left out of the game. Cost is $999 for 10 concurrent users, $1999 for unlimited concurrent users. It will be available this summer.
Final Cut Studio 2
Includes Final Cut Pro 6, Compressor 3, Motion 3 and Soundtrack Pro 2. There's also a new kid included in the FCS2 family, Color, which provides real time application color grading. Color is the result of Apple's acquisition of FinalTouch. The cost of FCS2 stays at $1299. Current Final Cut Studio users can upgrade for $499, and users with any older version of Final Cut Pro can upgrade for $699.
According to said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing:
FCS2 is available for ordering right now, but it won't ship until May.
Final Cut Server
Media asset management, workflow automation, automated encode and publish. It includes a cross platform interface so PC users aren't left out of the game. Cost is $999 for 10 concurrent users, $1999 for unlimited concurrent users. It will be available this summer.
Final Cut Studio 2
Includes Final Cut Pro 6, Compressor 3, Motion 3 and Soundtrack Pro 2. There's also a new kid included in the FCS2 family, Color, which provides real time application color grading. Color is the result of Apple's acquisition of FinalTouch. The cost of FCS2 stays at $1299. Current Final Cut Studio users can upgrade for $499, and users with any older version of Final Cut Pro can upgrade for $699.
According to said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing:
“Final Cut Studio 2 was specifically designed to enable the rapidly growing community of over 800,000 Final Cut editors worldwide to animate, mix, grade and deliver their work as a natural extension of the editorial process,Final Cut Studio 2 is the most powerful production suite on the planet.”
FCS2 is available for ordering right now, but it won't ship until May.
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