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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

NAB - Apple announces Special Event

I really hope that the special partnerships that red will announce include one with Apple, and that Final Cut Extreme is announced as being available immediatelly along with octo-macs and ready-built-in-native support for the red format... oh, and also the new 50 inch 4K dispays...

Is this too much to hope for?
 
I'm guessing they'll announce iTeaPot or something that makes tea for busy video editors, with a nice GUI and online browser to select Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Oolong or Lapsang Souchon. I'll have a Lapsang please.
 
Nothing new there...

Apple will have 8-core Mac Pro systems when they can start shipping the upcoming Stoakley/Seaburg chipset. It's a given... Intel is on track to deliver that chipset to OEMs next month, so 8-core Mac Pro systems could (and probably will) be announced at NAB. But I doubt they will ship until late April or May. I would look for a Leopard release at NAB... It just makes sense that their updated pro apps will need some of Leopard's features and there's no way they're going to show up at NAB, call a special event and have no pro-app updates.

To me, one of the biggest questions is what's to become of Shake? Also, will Apple start offering BluRay drives as an option in the Mac Pro?

Oh well, I won't buy a new system until I get RED. Maybe by then we'll see another spec bump on Mac Pro systems and cheaper RAM... Not that I would buy my FB-DIMMs through Apple at their unworldly prices.
 
pixelchef said:
Heh, Think Secret stokes the fire even further:

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/03/02/final-cut-pro-6-final-cut-extreme-details-displays-again/

This is getting good, let the Rumor Wars begin!
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the multitouch display technology is being mentioned a lot since the iphone. Like here on a"pro tools killer app" rumor. Also there's much talk of a 4k capable monitor, combine those two and you have a true dream come true. Add FCPX and RED and suddenly it's digital cinema nirvana!

Hope at least some of the rumors are true!
 
cell chips? I heard they weren't all that good at processing. Am I to assume that with a workstation with cell chips that the only thing it would be able to do is run high resolution video? I want something that can be both a video editing workstation and a powerful render station for 3d animation. Anyone with some insight into this?
 
I'm really hoping Apple has integrated Final Touch into FCP or at least updated the standalone app. so that it works correctly with FCP. I can get by with Colorista for the time being, but it would be nice to have a really good DI that integrates with FCP, especially if it is cost effective.
 
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

CELL? ...NOT! The "Cell" CPU is just a PowerPC 908 series with all the legacy junk stripped off of it. I'm not sure when people are going to figure that one out. IBM and Sony have a joint copyright on the "Cell" name as it pertains to CPUs.

Nothing wrong with Cell, it's a great multi-core CPU (available in 3, 7 and 9 core configs right now). It scales very well using multiple Cell processors in a NUMA-style configuration (memory banks are isolated to their respective Cell processors). The Cell on it's own is rather weak compared to a Core 2 series x86 processor or most desktop style CPUs. But as I said, they scale well and have their purpose. They're ideal for embedded applications, like the PS3 or a 3-core Cell would do really well inside a new Samsung refrigerator with built-in DVD player and coffee maker.

I could see Cell being used on video processor boards as maybe a host processor, but it's not going to do the bulk of the actual video processing. If this whole hardware-accelerated FCP Extreme were true, I would look for a custom set of ASICs from TI, Broadcom or nVidia, possibly ATI/AMD. Apple isn't going to re-invent the wheel here and they're probably not going to start from scratch either... there will be an underlying hardware partner like nVidia, AJA or BlueFish helping to at least design the hardware and possibly even supply a good bit of the firmware and software for it.

Anyway, if Apple wants to charge a lot of money to sell systems that compete with Avid, I say GREAT! I don't believe it's actually going to happen, but maybe it will. I just hope that if they do this, they don't cripple FCP on the low end so that we must upgrade to the "Extreme" version in order to work with 2K/4K media. That would be foolish of Apple to do something like that and will leave them wide open for Adobe to fill the gap in the middle.
 
ElysianChris said:
I'm really hoping Apple has integrated Final Touch into FCP or at least updated the standalone app. so that it works correctly with FCP. I can get by with Colorista for the time being, but it would be nice to have a really good DI that integrates with FCP, especially if it is cost effective.
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Yes!

...Make it so, Apple.
 
AppliedVisual said:
Anyway, if Apple wants to charge a lot of money to sell systems that compete with Avid, I say GREAT! I don't believe it's actually going to happen, but maybe it will. I just hope that if they do this, they don't cripple FCP on the low end so that we must upgrade to the "Extreme" version in order to work with 2K/4K media. That would be foolish of Apple to do something like that and will leave them wide open for Adobe to fill the gap in the middle.
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I agree, I'd hate for Apple to segment (e.g. cripple) FCP beyond what they've done with Final Cut Express (Students/Hobbyists/Casual Gearhounds) and FCP for the pros. Now, I can see the logic and benefit of introducing a beefed-up/blessed hardware config, but methinks that could be handled from a 3rd-party standpoint? I dunno, I could see it both ways sometimes...sure beats counting sheep at night. :D
 
One thing Apple are missing is video in/out. Then they can sell a turnkey soloution. But this will still need all the apps to be intergrated to take on Nitris.

Once they can market a product that is from one source and not 3rd party parts people wil be more confident.

Apple can't market a full soloution at the moment. Once one is in place they have all the other options under that as Avid do.

Sure they need better things like media managers but thats all pretty much in place hardware wise. X-san etc.

They need a full turnkey soloution to take Avid on. I hope it happens.
 
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