Geek Posted June 21, 2011 Posted June 21, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/final-cut-pro-x.jpg" alt="Final Cut Pro X" title="final-cut-pro-x" width="516" height="168" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17691" /></p> <p>Apple unleashed several major updates to its professional video editing software suite this morning, featuring Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4. Final Cut Pro X was rebuilt from the ground up and is said to reinvent video editing. Apple’s SVP Phil Schiller expresses his enthusiasm:</p> <blockquote><p>“Final Cut Pro X is the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cut Pro. We have shown it to many of the world’s best Pro editors, and their jaws have dropped.”</p></blockquote> <p>Many popular Hollywood movies have been edited in prior versions of Final Cut Pro, giving some serious clout to it’s abilities, a few include <em>X-Men: Origins, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, 300, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, Where the Wild Things Are, Eat Pray Love</em>, and <em>True Grit</em>. </p> <p>Despite being a complete redesign with hoards of new features, the price of Final Cut Pro X and it’s component apps have actually dropped substantially, and they are all available as downloads through the Mac App Store:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Ffinal-cut-pro%252Fid424389933%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">Final Cut Pro X – $299.99</a></li> <li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcompressor%252Fid424390742%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">Compressor 4 – $49.99</a></li> <li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fmotion%252Fid434290957%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">Motion 5 – $49.99</a></li> </ul> <p>Each new app release is already at the top of the Mac App Store “Bestsellers” list, indicating both enthusiasm and a significant pent up demand for Apple’s latest video editing package.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/final-cut-pro-x1.jpg" alt="Final Cut Pro X" title="final-cut-pro-x" width="620" height="381" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17692" /></p> <p>System Requirements are a bit stricter this time around, requiring Mac OS X 10.6.7 or newer, an Open-CL capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, both must have at least 256MB of VRAM. Your Mac should also have at least 2GB of RAM, but 4GB (or more) is recommended. You can read more about the GPU requirements on <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664">Apple support</a>. </p> <p>Embedded below is a first-look walkthrough of Final Cut Pro X, for those interested. <span id="more-17690"></span> <iframe width="600" height="371" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s8C8IwEc6zk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>The other side to this story is that Apple is continuing to push the Mac App Store as the primary distribution method of their software. 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