While I was at work today I noticed a tweet that ever so casually mentioned that Apple announced, nay, was shipping both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio upgrades. So I’m like “woot” and spent part of my lunch scanning what’s new.
There are a lot of joyous tweets and surprised blog posts, all fo which amounts to very little information that isn’t readily available on Apple’s product page. As is often the case some reading between the lines is needed and then there is the fine print:
Required: Mac computer with an Intel processor
The big one. The last nail in the PPC coffin.
Logic Studio is no different. It’s all Intel from now on.
Final Cut Studio also is $299 for the upgrade. A nice price. I bet that’s partially because it has omitted the twenty or so pounds of printed manuals – check out the smaller box in the photo above. Yup, time to save some trees.
This will probably not surprise anyone too much – I personally was shocked that my Final Cut Studio 2 box was the same behemoth that previous versions were (albeit no extensive Color manual). No doubt UPS and Fed Ex drivers everywhere burned some extra calories after Apple shipped new Pro Apps.
The biggest new awesome improvement for me is the beefed up ProRes codec, now supporting the ubiquitous alpha channel, a staple in my workflow.
Curse you Animation codec! You were grand back in the day, but now I want my lossless compression and my full frame playback too!
And as I tweeted, it’s the little things that are the core of this upgrade, some of which are long-standing Avid features that Final Cut Pro hasn’t had all these years.
It should be fun to take for a spin – after we’re done with my current project which is tied up in ProRes and Red Raw workflows that would have loved the new features had they come before post production.
The other problem for me is that times are tough and I still can’t afford a suitable Intel replacement for my PPC G5 Quad core Mac. The writing is now on the wall and it started with After Effects CS4 so hopefully that day will come.
It’s important to note that not having the latest and greatest right when it comes out is also a great thing – the bugs won’t be a problem and in the end I can still make great things. These days the tools aren’t as much of an obstacle as the creative process anyway.
Cheers to Apple for what looks like a fantastic upgrade (Logic too!).
Upgrade Season 2009
While I was at work today I noticed a tweet that ever so casually mentioned that Apple announced, nay, was shipping both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio upgrades. So I’m like “woot” and spent part of my lunch scanning what’s new.
There are a lot of joyous tweets and surprised blog posts, all fo which amounts to very little information that isn’t readily available on Apple’s product page. As is often the case some reading between the lines is needed and then there is the fine print:
Required: Mac computer with an Intel processor
The big one. The last nail in the PPC coffin.
Logic Studio is no different. It’s all Intel from now on.
Final Cut Studio also is $299 for the upgrade. A nice price. I bet that’s partially because it has omitted the twenty or so pounds of printed manuals – check out the smaller box in the photo above. Yup, time to save some trees.
This will probably not surprise anyone too much – I personally was shocked that my Final Cut Studio 2 box was the same behemoth that previous versions were (albeit no extensive Color manual). No doubt UPS and Fed Ex drivers everywhere burned some extra calories after Apple shipped new Pro Apps.
The biggest new awesome improvement for me is the beefed up ProRes codec, now supporting the ubiquitous alpha channel, a staple in my workflow.
And as I tweeted, it’s the little things that are the core of this upgrade, some of which are long-standing Avid features that Final Cut Pro hasn’t had all these years.
It should be fun to take for a spin – after we’re done with my current project which is tied up in ProRes and Red Raw workflows that would have loved the new features had they come before post production.
The other problem for me is that times are tough and I still can’t afford a suitable Intel replacement for my PPC G5 Quad core Mac. The writing is now on the wall and it started with After Effects CS4 so hopefully that day will come.
It’s important to note that not having the latest and greatest right when it comes out is also a great thing – the bugs won’t be a problem and in the end I can still make great things. These days the tools aren’t as much of an obstacle as the creative process anyway.
Cheers to Apple for what looks like a fantastic upgrade (Logic too!).