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Final Cut Pro 4, Shake 3 34

Posted by Hemos from the try-it-again dept.
chasingporsches writes "It appears that Apple released Final Cut Pro 4, Shake 3, and DVD Studio Pro 2. FCP4 has great new features, such as updated HD support, but unfortunately the usual hefty price tag ($999 full, $399 upgrade). Shake now has unlimited network rendering, and DVD Studio Pro 2 has a new basic/advanced user interface."
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  • It looks like Apple is still trying to keep their edge in the area.

  • that shake is 4 times cheaper on the mac, but takes 4 times the machines to do the same rendering... hopefully they'll fix this later on. oh, and before you go and tear apart my comment about the hefty price tag, i think it's a great price for the software, but i just wish it was more like premiere's price...
    • maybe i shouldn't post comments when i've had such a long day... i meant to say $4000 cheaper, but takes 4x as long... wow.
    • Adobe would charge a lot more for Premiere if it didn't suck in its entirety. If you never had to meet a deadline or didn't mind your project getting trashed all the time Premiere would be a great application. Their Mac port of it is especially poor, as is their port of After Effects which is a sad excuse for a professional application all on its own.

      As for shake needing 4 times the hardware, there is where Apple's sales department kicks in. You buy Shake 3 and say Maya and they'll gladly sell you a rack o
  • Well $999 seems to me to be a reasonable price for a piece of software as outstanding and feature rich as FCP. $999 might seem "hefty" when you're used to paying nothing for software. But unlike much of the software that carries a $0 price tag, FCP actually .... works! And works quite well! Sometimes it's true: You get what you pay for.

    Peace
    • very true, i luv FCP, i use it at work alot. I even made a movie for a class last semester and ended up doing alot in final cut instead of premiere. Its a great program and it well worth the extra $.
  • How long before ID software sues Apple for copyright infringement? AOL did the same thing to Aimster.

  • Check out Soundtrack (Score:4, Interesting)

    by BlueGecko ( 109058 ) <benjamin.pollack@nOspAM.gmail.com> on Sunday April 06, 2003 @10:22PM (#5676518) Homepage
    One thing not mentioned at all in the summary of the new parts of FCP 4 is the new Soundtrack [apple.com] component, which in my opinion could justify the upgrade and the price tag of the entire suite all by itself. This lets anyone, regardless of musical experience, write fairly complex scores for their movies. Essentially, you get a vast library of super-high-fidelity loops that you can then combine with surprising ease straight into your FCP project. You can see the demos/tutorials here [apple.com]. Note that QuickTime and a fast connection are required.

  • Price Tag (Score:3, Insightful)

    by SewersOfRivendell ( 646620 ) on Sunday April 06, 2003 @10:26PM (#5676537)
    $999 is hefty? Have you priced an Avid system recently? One with all the features of FCP? Is one such even available?

  • Adobe Encore DVD (Score:3, Insightful)

    by stubear ( 130454 ) on Sunday April 06, 2003 @10:33PM (#5676570)
    I wonder how Adobe Encore DVD [adobe.com] stacks up against DVD Studio Pro 2.
  • from other articles that i've read a compariable linux solution to Shake would cost upwards of $10,000, compared to $5,000 for shake...sounds like a good deal to me :)
  • I am glad I waited on buying Boris Red [borisfx.com] (titler) and SonicFire Pro [smartsound.com] (audio creation tool) most of these products features are included now in FCP 4.

    PLUS they dropped the price of DVDSP to a "mere" $500 and added themes. Fucking too sweet!

    I think I will hold on to FCP 3.0.4 for a while since the iLife fiasco with iMovie.

    --
    Dan Slagle
    Keeper of the "Unofficial" iMovie FAQ [danslagle.com]

    • I think I will hold on to FCP 3.0.4 for a while since the iLife fiasco with iMovie.

      There was no iLife fiasco with iMovie. iDVD, as it has always been, is not a no-charge application. To sweeten the pot for some people iMovie (free), iPhoto (free), and iTunes (free) are included in the package.
  • Is that it uses Rendevous to automatically discover local nodes on the network to use as a sort of self-discovering render farm. This is great for folks who would like to get a few cheap G4s rather than pay for an SGI and pay for the IRIX version of the software.

    And if folks want a smaller cluster for rendering, they can always get xServe cluster nodes to free up that valuable desk space.

    Incredible!

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