Strange to see this stuff be announced on a Sunday, but being that NAB started yesterday (a show I never went to even in my broadcast days), it makes sense.
The new Final Cut Pro is finally on par with Avid because they have their own HD codec that squishes video to wickedly small sizes, and you can finally mix formats and frame rates in the same time line. I'm sure that FCP users the world over are rejoicing for that!
They have some wicked little hardware box too that can transcode anything to anything, made by a third party. It's like an ultimate I/O box. That's ridiculously impressive, even if I don't need it.
The new Compressor version looks impressive too, and will export to Flash video. I have stuff that can do that already, but they're talking about exponential gains in encoding speed, and you throw all the CPU's you have at the media. I might finally get to take true advantage of those four Xeon cores!
Exciting stuff coming down next month, that's for sure. I wish I was going to have it in time for the video stuff I'm planning to do for media day.
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