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Apple Introduces Final Cut Pro 2 with Real-Time Editing and Breakthrough G4 PerformanceCUPERTINO, California—March 14, 2001—Apple® today introduced Final Cut Pro® 2, the next generation of its award-winning video editing, compositing and special effects software. Final Cut Pro 2 is a powerful, all-in-one editing solution, featuring real-time editing, breakthrough Power Mac™ G4 performance and a scalable architecture that allows users to output content into any video format. “Final Cut Pro 2, running on our blazingly fast Power Mac G4 or PowerBook G4, offers the specialized features and robust editing workflow sought after by video professionals, without the expensive price tags,” said David Moody, Apple’s senior director of Applications Marketing. “Final Cut Pro’s innovative, extensible real-time architecture gives editors what they need most—time to be more creative and productive.” With Final Cut Pro 2, real-time editing and compositing functions are seamlessly integrated into the video production workflow. By simply adding an optional, supported real-time processing card, video editors can instantly perform wipes, dissolves, and 2D motion graphics effects, dramatically increasing their creative freedom and efficiency. Final Cut Pro’s real-time architecture allows third-party manufacturers to create hardware that supports a variety of professional editing features and formats. The first card to support Final Cut Pro’s real-time architecture is the RTMac card from Matrox, which provides real-time broadcast-quality transitions and effects, and uncompressed, 32-bit, animated graphics in a dual-stream, native-DV editing environment. Final Cut Pro 2 takes advantage of the supercomputing performance of Apple’s new Power Mac G4 and PowerBook® G4 lines, and the new QuickTime™ 5 architecture, to deliver dramatic gains in video editing productivity. On compute-intensive operations, Final Cut Pro 2 is up to 30% faster on G4 systems and 70% faster on dual-processor G4 systems, when compared to the previous generation’s performance on similarly configured systems.
With Final Cut Pro 2, video editors can:
Final Cut Pro works with Apple’s new DVD Studio Pro™ to form a complete system for professional digital content creation and delivery. From within Final Cut Pro, users can invoke DVD Studio Pro’s powerful compression engine to encode their edited video sequences into MPEG2. Using DVD Studio Pro, they can author sophisticated navigation menus, preview disk operation in real time, and burn DVDs using the Power Mac G4’s new SuperDrive for playback on consumer DVD players. Pricing and Availability Final Cut Pro 2 will be available beginning March 19, 2001 through The Apple Store® www.apple.com and through Authorized Apple Resellers for a suggested retail price of $999 (US). Existing users can upgrade to the new version of Final Cut Pro for $249 (US). Final Cut Pro 2 requires Mac® OS 9.1, a Macintosh® computer with a 300-MHz or faster PowerPC G3 or G4 processor, QuickTime 5, 192MB of RAM (256MB of RAM for real-time processing), and 20MB of available disk space for installation. More information on Final Cut Pro, including a list of certified, compatible hardware and software can be found at www.apple.com/finalcutpro.
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