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Final Cut Express HD Released As A Universal Binary

Final Cut Express HD Released As A Universal Binary: "Apple released Final Cut Express HD 3.5 this morning as a Universal Binary, making the program join with Final Cut Pro as running native on Intel processors. The new software is available as either a $299 standalone product, or a $99 upgrade."

(Via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors.)

MacBook Pro Benchmarks: Final Cut Studio 5.1

MacBook Pro Benchmarks: Final Cut Studio 5.1: "Conclusions When I set off to benchmark the MacBook Pro, the question I wanted answered was how close the MacBook Pro could come to matching the performance of a common G5 tower. That it matched or exceeded the performance of the G5 in the vast majority of tests was quite surprising to me. Even though the MacBook is rated slightly higher in GHz than the G5, it does use a mobile chip, which you wouldn't expect to match the chip in a desktop system. Plus FInal Cut Studio has been in development on the PowerPC platform for five generations, whereas the Universal Binary release is just in its first incarnation."

(Via http://www.macdvdpro.com .)

BetaNews | Final Cut for Mac Goes Universal

BetaNews | Final Cut for Mac Goes Universal: "Apple announced Thursday that it had begun shipping Final Cut Studio 5.1, the first version of its video production suite to ship as a Universal Binary. The announcement follows February's release of Logic Pro 7.2 as a Universal application, and will be followed in April by Aperture 1.1, the company's photo editing tool. According to benchmarks by Apple, the new version runs up to two and a half times faster on MacBook Pro laptops."

(Via www.betanews.com .)

Belle Nuit Subtitler

Belle Nuit Subtitler: ""

Program to spot, edit and render subtitles for video editing, DVD authoring and digital cinema. Translators can spot directly with a QuickTime movie and translate precisely.

MacNN | Apple accepts Pro app crossgrade orders

MacNN | Apple accepts Pro app crossgrade orders: "Apple accepts Pro app crossgrade orders Apple is now accepting orders for crossgrades, allowing users to get the latest versions of Final Cut Studio, Logic Pro, and Logic Express"

(Via macnn.)

DVDSP 4.0.3 update

DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3 updates compliance for the 1.0 HD DVD Video standard content specification to Tiger and Panther based users. Users with DVD Studio Pro 4.0 or later need to install this update to ensure their projects are compliant with the 1.0 HD DVD Video standard content specification.

Apple - Support - Downloads - Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5

Apple - Support - Downloads - Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5: "

Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.5
rsion 1.5 now correctly displays state when Xserve RAID is JBOD mode, addresses issues related to slower performing hard drives; changes procedure for adding drives and moving arrays to prevent inadvertently overwriting array drives; allows Write cache flushing to be disabled to prevent throughput drops when used in realtime applications (such as video capture)

BWF2XML - Communicating with BWF and Final Cut Pro XMLs

BWF2XML - Communicating with BWF and Final Cut Pro XMLs: "By leveraging the power of the FCP XML format, BWF2XML allows FCP to seamlessly import BWF files, complete with metadata and timecode. Dependent on your system setup polyphonic BWFs and merging of discrete mono BWFs are handled."

MacNN | Apple releases Java, WaveBurner, Xsan updates

MacNN | Apple releases Java, WaveBurner, Xsan updates: "Apple also released Xsan Tuner, a tool to test the data and video transfer capabilities of a storage area network and its Xsan volumes. Also available for download is WaveBurner 1.1.1, which addresses reliability and performance issues that may have occurred with the previous version. Lastly, Apple released QuickTime 7.0.1 Reinstaller, which removes QuickTime 7.0.2 -- for users having problems with the release -- and restores version 7.0.1. "

(Via www.macnn.com .)

MacNN | Apple increases storage in Xserve RAID, Xserve server

MacNN | Apple increases storage in Xserve RAID, Xserve server: "Apple today updated its Xserve RAID storage system, a 3U rack-mounted storage system designed to deliver 7 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity. The company claims the storage system offers 'the industry's most aggressive price of just $1.86 per GB.' Apple also upgraded its Xserve 1U rack optimized server with up to three 500GB drives, achieving up to 1.5TB of storage. Designed with 14 independent 500GB Ultra ATA drive channels, Xserve RAID provides up to 7TB of storage capacity using dual-independent RAID controllers with 512 MB cache per controller. The sustained throughput of over 385MBps is high enough to support the most demanding media production environments using protected RAID level 5 in virtually any environment--Mac OS X, Windows, NetWare, SUSE and Red Hat Linux--according to Apple. "

(Via www.macnn.com .)