Apple have just announced a replacement for their well-regarded pro editing software Final Cut Pro. As you can see, the new version looks like iMovie 11 on steroids. I'm intrigued that they've based the interface for the pro app on the consumer app. But the new iMovie was often quicker to work with than FCP, even for quite sophisticated editing, so it makes sense. And the interface now offers a very clear progression route from consumer/learner to pro. There are lots of new features such as background rendering, the ability to start editing while still ingesting material, and easy ways of cataloguing material, and it integrates the features of Soundtrack and the user-unfriendly Color - these were previously separate applications within Final Cut Studio.
No word on what's happening to Motion, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor, the other elements of Final Cut Studio. Final Cut Express is apparently being squeezed out.
It'll be available on the App Store in June for $299, far less than the $999 you have to pay for Final Cut Studio.
If they can get education and volume pricing right this application could be a real killer, especially compared to Adobe's Premiere - I tried the Mac version of Premiere Elements recently and found it very clunky.
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