Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Apple Unveiled Cheap "Final Cut Pro X" for Only 299 Dollars Introduced at NAB: Will be available June 9, 2011

Final Cut Pro was first released in 1999 and has come a long way since then. The latest version, Final Cut Pro X will only cost 299 dollars. The 64 bit application is capable of tapping 8  cores of multi core processors.  The system has a new interface that will support picture resolution up to 4 K. At the moment, there are about 2 million Final Cut  users.  In the olden days one could only use Avid  Media Composer which is still a favorite with the film editors.
Apple's Final Cut Pro X
  • Now 64-bit, with OpenCL support
  • All editing native – no transcoding (for supported formats incl. H264, I assume)
  • New UI (screenshots forthcoming) with “magnetic time line” and new clip sync method
  • Resolution independent playback system
  • Handles up to 4K
  • Uses Grand Central Dispatch to utilize all your cores
  • Fully color-managed (ColorSync)
  • Media ready for editing immediately – but stabilization, audio and shutter correction, shot detection and preliminary color balancing automatically applied during ingest
  • Time code-based key wording within clips
  • Collections and “smart” collections of media based on metadata and analysis, presented in iMovie filmstrip style
  • Auto-syncing clips via audio waveform analysis
  • Automated color-matching between clips

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