Apple Updates Pro Applications
June 27, 2007 - Apple, Inc. released updates to their pro applications, updates to Final Cut Pro, Motion, Color, Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, along with Pro Applications Update, and Super Drive Firmware Update fill up the list for today’s update. Two days before the iPhone there was no sign of an iTunes update so far but rumors sites are speculating that the update will be available sometime Friday afternoon. With the big hype given to the iPhone hopefully people don’t forget that there is more after the iPhone, rumors of new iMacs, Displays, and iPod still are being seen around the web.
The Final Cut Pro update includes stability issues along third party plugins support, etc. but the most exciting news about the update is the compatibility with AVCHD. This is huge, many people are getting these cameras and being able to edit this material is as important as you may think. Motion update improves Final Cut integration, rendering of 3D groups, and 32 bit float projects. Color updates gets improvements on stability, metadata support, and single-display mode. The most exciting features are better compatibility NVIDIA graphics cards, and dissolving of 2K files during rendering.
Compressor just received performance improvements and stability improvements; Soundtrack Pro received the same updates as Compressor except for a Delay Designer surround effect plug-in. The Pro Application Update fixes some frameworks and shared components for Final Cut Studio 2 Apps across the board. The last update is for the Super Drive that improves readability of certain CD media, hmm, CD media. I wonder is this is in preparation to updates for HD-DVD or Blu-Ray compatibility, what other media would a Super Drive needs help with? Maybe issues that I haven’t heard of.
While we wait for Friday’s events, share your though with us about the iPhone. I’ll be on my nearest AT&T store interviewing people and putting out a podcast with whatever material we pick up from that. Send your comments to our email at lumencreativegroup (at) gmail.com to share on the show which will be on your nearest feed Friday before midnight. Thanks.
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