As had been rumored, Apple yesterday unveiled its latest update to Final Cut Pro, dubbed Final Cut X. The latest upgrade brings with it a host of new features, including support for all processor cores via Grand Central Dispatch, support for high-def 4k resolution, the ability to edit during import, scalable rendering, and resolution independent […]
Continue reading...Monday, April 11, 2011
Comments Off on More details about massive Final Cut Pro upgrade emerge; Spring 2011 launch expected along with iPad and Thunderbolt support
With Apple expected to announce a major update to Final Cut Pro this week, new details about some of the surprises Apple has in store are beginning to leak out. Rumor has it that FCP will be released sometime this Spring with an official unveiling set for tomorrow at the Final Cut Pro User […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Comments Off on Apple to unveil revamped Final Cut Pro on April 12 at FCP User Group SuperMeet
The ProVideoCoallition reports that Apple will unveil its highly anticipated update to Final Cut Pro at the the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet, scheduled to kick off on April 12. This jives with previous rumors we’ve heard about a Final Cut Pro announcement coming sometime in early April. Philip Bloom just confirmed with me […]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 24, 2011
Comments Off on First hand account of upcoming Final Cut Pro update – it’s a “jaw dropper”
The hype surrounding the next version of Final Cut Pro continues to build. Just yesterday came news that the next version of FCP will feature the software’s biggest overhaul since the original version. Ahead of its anticipated Spring 2011 release, Apple invited a number of post-production professionals to its Cupertino campus to give the software […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Comments Off on Final Cut Pro update will be the “biggest overhaul” since the original; Tapped for Spring 2011 release
With reports of Final Cut Pro layoffs and stories of Apple moving key engineers off the FCP team to temporarily focus on more pressing software assignments, there’s been growing concern that Apple was losing interest in its professional video editing software. Rumors of a significant Final Cut Pro update have been lingering for months. Back in […]
Continue reading...Friday, November 26, 2010
As December approaches and 2011 looms, Apple is juggling a lot of balls up in the air. Of course, everyone’s expecting the iPhone 4 to hit Verizon in early 2011, a move which should only serve to increase already booming iPhone sales. And now comes word via Three Guys and a Podcast that Apple has […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Comments Off on Apple refutes claim that FCP will lose its “Pro” focus
A recent report from AppleInsider claimed that Apple was planning to tweak Final Cut Pro in order to make its suite of post production video apps more attractive to Apple’s ever-growing consumer base – all at the expense of the high-end creative folks who use FCP professionally. Apple has since come out and refuted that […]
Continue reading...Monday, May 17, 2010
From a 2005 Fortune piece on Apple and the impetus for its development of Final Cut Pro and iMovie: But a 1998 meeting in which Jobs asked Adobe Systems executives to develop a Mac version of their consumer video-editing program changed his mind. “They said flat-out no,” Jobs recalls. “We were shocked, because they had […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Steve Jobs is on an e-mail tear lately. In what may be his longest email response to date, Jobs addressed the future of Final Cut Pro. None too pleased with the most recent Final Cut Pro update, a Mac Soda reader emailed Jobs to get some clarification regarding Apple’s continued interest in the software. Steve, […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Comments Off on Final Cut Pro is all up in the Oscars
CNET writes: In fact, 9 out of 10 of this year’s nominees in the “Documentary Feature” and “Documentary Short” categories used Final Cut Studio to make their films. Final Cut Studio includes Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, Compressor, and DVD Studio Pro, essentially giving filmmakers all of the tools they need to make a […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Comments Off on Apple reportedly lays off 40 Final Cut team members
Two weeks ago, former Apple engineer and After Effects guru Pete Ward tweeted that Apple had let go of a good number of employees from the Final Cut team. Apple laid off 40 of my old Final Cut team yesterday, lots of good people, despite high profits. Apple can be pretty evil. Lest you be worried, […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Comments Off on Rumor: Apple to attend NAB 2010 with new version of Final Cut Pro
The last version of Final Cut announced at NAB was Final Cut Studio 2 which was released in 2007 amidst a ton of publicity and hoopla. Since then, Apple has gone on to release Final Cut Studio 3, but that release has flown somewhat under the radar. There was no big announcement at NAB to […]
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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