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Comment by Ed Waldrup on August 22, 2009 at 6:07am

First book on Final Cut 7 is out and available from Nerd Books in Richardson now. It is Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 by Diana Weynand. Nerd books is on Firman in Richardson and is run by Dave the good book Natzi.Larry Jordan who does Final Cut Training has told me he will not have Final Cut Training with Lynda.com but somewhere else.

Comment by Ed Waldrup on August 16, 2009 at 5:34pm

Ran a Unix command to see what I have that is 64 bit. The new Final Cut Pro 7 is 64 bit as is iTunes on my 10.5.8 system. 64 bit opens the door to use more than 4 Gb of ram per application.

Comment by Ed Waldrup on August 2, 2009 at 7:58am

The new Final Cut Studio is 64 bit and so is Logic Studio. More speed!!

Comment by Ed Waldrup on July 30, 2009 at 7:29pm

Apple removes Shake software extension from online store

By Katie Marsal
Speculation has arisen that Apple has discontinued Shake, its film digital effects and digital compositing software, after the application vanished from the company's online store.

Although the official Web site for Shake was still online early Thursday afternoon, it was later changed to forward to the page for Final Cut Studio. MacRumors received word that Apple sales representatives were informed that the product was discontinued.

The current release, Shake 4.1, debuted in 2006. A minor update, bringing it to 4.1.1, came out in 2008. As an extension for Final Cut Studio, the software was been the tool of choice for major motion-picture studios and leading effects houses to create award-winning visual effects including Peter Jackson's "King Kong."

The $499 software worked in tandem with the Final Cut Studio. Last week, Apple updated that suite and lowered the price to $999. More than 100 new features were added to the latest Final Cut, perhaps negating the need for Shake entirely.

Rumors that Shake would be discontinued first began to swirl 2006, when the project called "Phenomenon" was believed to be in Apple's future plans. It was not long after the release of Shake 4.1 that Apple informed customers it would no longer be selling maintenance for Shake as "no further updates" to the application were planned. The company also slashed the price of the software by 80 percent, down from $2,999 to $499.

Rumors at the time suggested Phenomenon would be based heavily on the codebase for Motion, Apple's professional graphics animation software.

Apple did not yet officially confirm the discontinuation of Shake Thursday

Comment by Ed Waldrup on July 24, 2009 at 7:43pm

There will be performance enhancements for the new FC Studio with Snow Leopard. How much so we will have to see. 64 bit allows more than 4 GB of ram to be allocated to an application and this is what I expect. Improvements can be seen with compressor now if Apple Q Master is invoked using, in my case, all 8 cores with a gig of ram per core. Stay tuned.

Comment by Taylor Sharpe on July 24, 2009 at 1:14pm

Any Rumors about what will happen with video and Snow Leopard now that its within about 60 days? Also it might be fun to go over utilities like handbreak, vlc, Toast ... that are useful if you do much video stuff.

Comment by Ed Waldrup on July 23, 2009 at 8:11pm

I just received confirmation that my Logic Studio upgrade is shipping overnight as well. Maybe this time I will actually use it. This is a powerful audio program.

Comment by Ed Waldrup on July 23, 2009 at 8:08pm

I just received conformation from Apple that my Final Cut Studio Upgrade is on order and is coming overnight which may mean the 26th of July. The biggest news to me is that Compressor will output to Blu-ray. At long last. Hurah. This upgrade at $299 is by far the least expensive ever. Happy, Happy. We just may have to play with the new Studio at the next meeting...

Comment by Carl Stewart on July 23, 2009 at 11:08am

Apple announced today the Final Cut Studio updates. Who will be the first to have all of the new and improved. Check out this web site for some of the latest FCS free tutorials

Comment by Don Smith on July 20, 2009 at 7:26am

Ed.. I love it. Now, let's get that into any email that goes out to the members about the upcoming meeting.

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