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Here It Is: Final Cut Pro X Now Available on the Mac App Store Alongside Motion 5 and Compressor 4

06.21.11 @ 1:01PM Tags : apple, appstore, compressor, fcpx, finalcut, finalcutpro, finalcutprox, motion

As promised, Apple today released Final Cut Pro X on the Mac App Store for $299. The completely-redesigned, much debated application clocks in at 1.33GB and requires a 64-bit processor and OS X 10.6.7 or later. Also debuting today are Motion 5 and Compressor 4 — both priced at only $49.99 apiece. More »

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Tessive's Time Filter Brings Film's Dreamy Motion Rendering to Digital Cameras (and Eliminates Rolling Shutter Too)

06.18.11 @ 3:19PM Tags : aliasing, motion, motionrendering, rollingshutter, shutter, strobosopic, temporal, tessive

It’s been one of my pet peeves ever since the advent of digital cinema cameras: at the same frame rate and shutter speed as a film camera, digital sensors looks more stroboscopic. There’s more jutter and I find it distracting. For a long time I couldn’t explain what I was seeing until Adam Wilt explained why in a piece about RED. Now Adam’s the first to bring my attention to a new product called a Time Filter from Tessive. If you want a smoother shutter rendering on your digital footage, this is a serious innovation — brilliant, in my opinion. More »

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Are These the First Screenshots of the New Apple Motion? And FCP X Ships this Month, Right?

06.9.11 @ 1:40PM Tags : apple, fcp, fcpx, finalcut, finalcutpro, finalcutprox, motion

There were no Final Cut Pro X-related announcements among the recent iOS and iCloud-focused Apple updates from WWDC, which was not unexpected (WWDC is not traditionally a film or video event). Except it was originally announced Final Cut Pro X will ship in June, which would mean the much-debanticipated (yes, FCP X hype deserves its own word, a combination of “debated” and “anticipated”) software has a scant three weeks to appear in the App Store. Since the original demonstration, videos, and screenshots, we’ve heard nothing. Then Twitter use BWilks2001 dropped these screenshots, which are reportedly of the new Apple Motion application: More »

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Apple Announces Redesigned 64-Bit Final Cut Pro X with Background Rendering for $299

04.12.11 @ 10:25PM Tags : apple, color, finalcut, finalcutpro, motion

I’m live at the sold-out FCPUG SuperMeet in Las Vegas, where the “surprise” guest has turned out to be none other than Apple (“surprise” is in quotes because everyone, this site included, expected it to be AAPL). As expected, Apple has announced the new version of Final Cut Pro, now called Final Cut Pro X, with OpenCL support, backround rendering, and a completely redesigned interface. Here are the new features: More »