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For film, video, audio, DVD and motion graphics, award-winning Apple software brings creative genius and technical muscle together brilliantly. Whatever you’re creating, Apple pro digital production software gives you the power to create and deliver more effectively.

Soundtrack Pro

Apple introduced Soundtrack Pro, a revolutionary application that gives audio and video professionals the easiest and most flexible way to create, control and fix audio. Soundtrack Pro features an innovative waveform editor with flexible Action Layers that allow users to instantly re-order, bypass or change any edit, effect or process. Intelligent Find-and-Fix features quickly identify and repair common audio problems such as background noise, pops, clicks and hum. With full multitrack editing and mixing, over 50 professional effect plug-ins from Apple’s award-winning Logic Pro 7, and more than 1,000 professional quality sound effects, Soundtrack Pro provides the most intuitive, yet precise way to create stunning audio.

With over 50 professional plug-ins including Space Designer, Match EQ and Linear Phase EQ from Apple’s Logic Pro 7 music creation and production software, Soundtrack Pro provides a powerful set of tools for audio and video professionals to sculpt the perfect sound for their productions. Soundtrack Pro comes with over 5,000 Apple Loops that add depth to the action and emotion of pictures with musical elements and sound effects ranging from earthshaking explosions and whooshes, to subtle ambient effects.

An integrated mixer in Soundtrack Pro with control surface support enables audio pros to interact with audio tracks using a familiar interface. Audio pros can apply common effects to multiple tracks and group common tracks using busses. Support for Mackie Control surface protocol allows sound editors to use hardware faders and knobs for tactile control over mix parameters to delve deeper into creating the perfect mix.

Soundtrack Pro offers unprecedented integration within Apple’s Final Cut Studio, the ultimate HD video production suite which allows professional editors to work in any format from DV, SD, HD to film, and elevate production values with powerful editing tools, revolutionary sound design, real-time motion graphics and next generation DVD authoring. Users can seamlessly move between other Final Cut Studio applications and Soundtrack Pro for quick audio touch-up and creation. Entire sequences from Final Cut Pro 5 can be taken to the Soundtrack Pro multitrack editor for larger scale, audio post production.

AppleScript capabilities built into Soundtrack Pro simplify and accelerate the video production process by automating common and repetitive audio tasks. Audio and video professionals can execute complete Soundtrack Pro scripts directly from within Final Cut Pro 5 any time they need them. Automator, an application integrated in Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger”, helps streamline more complex tasks without any programming.

Production Suite

Production Suite is the essential software suite for film and video that delivers real-time production tools in one comprehensive and integrated package.

Production Suite combines Final Cut Pro HD, the latest version of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software; Motion, a revolutionary new application that redefines motion graphics; and DVD Studio Pro 3, the latest version of Apple’s professional DVD authoring application. Production Suite provides creative professionals with an integrated round trip production environment where media and project files move seamlessly throughout the creative process.

Final Cut Pro HD

Final Cut Pro HD is the latest version of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software, which now adds the real-time performance of high quality native HD, to the existing real-time support for DV and SD.

In an industry first, Final Cut Pro HD delivers the ability to capture, edit and output broadcast-quality HD video over a single FireWire cable without compromising the professional image quality. Final Cut Pro HD supports native DVCPRO HD editing with no recompression or image degradation and enables HD monitoring on an Apple Cinema HD Display with the new Digital Cinema Desktop feature.

Motion

Motion is a breakthrough new application that redefines professional motion graphics production with incredible real-time design and revolutionary animation techniques. Motion features a real-time design engine that delivers fast, intuitive animation of text, graphics and video, with instant previewing of filters and particle effects. Motion also pioneers an innovative new animation feature called Behaviors that applies the principles of procedural animation to easily create natural fluid motions and sophisticated multi-layered animations, without using complex keyframes. With an ingenious user interface for video, DVD and the web, Motion enables users to spend less time managing windows and palettes and more time interacting with their project.

DVD Studio Pro

DVD Studio Pro Apple’s professional DVD authoring application that gives users a complete set of tools for modern DVD design and authoring. DVD Studio Pro features revolutionary new Alpha Transitions to create stylish DVDs and an innovative new Graphical View for easy visualization of a project’s entire flow. DVD Studio Pro also includes Compressor 1.2, the latest version of Apple’s revolutionary digital media encoding and compression tool that provides high-quality HD to MPEG-2 encoding. New DTS and Dolby audio support gives DVD Studio Pro users the highest quality audio for creating captivating DVDs in 5.1 surround sound.

Shake

Shake is a leading compositing software used by independent artists and visual effects facilities to create the world’s most celebrated visual effects for film and television. Shake features 3D multi-plane compositing, cutting-edge optical flow image processing and unprecedented integration with Final Cut Pro 5.

Artists can now composite live action and 3D CGI layers with added realism using Shake’s new OpenGL accelerated 3D multi-plane compositing node. Seamlessly integrated into the node view, 3D compositing works with the same flexible user interface as every other operation and is as fast and high-quality as 2D operations. Shake presents an entirely new dimension by offering the ability to position, rotate and animate unlimited layers and cameras in 3D space.

As the world’s leading film and HD compositing software, Shake is at the forefront of integrating the latest image processing algorithms and workflow advantages into a single, affordable visual effects package. Shake features advanced optical flow technology that uses pixel-by-pixel image analysis to create smooth retiming and automatic stabilisation. Editors and visual effects artists alike can now effortlessly adjust the speed of any clip to achieve Hollywood-quality results. Shake can also revive unusable content by automatically removing camera jitter from static shots and correcting uneven pans across a scene without setting tracking points.

Shake integrates Truelight monitor calibration to maintain colour consistency between the computer screen and the final look of the film, allowing compositors to accurately pre-visualise the look of their HD or film imagery, saving time and effort. Shake can also distribute visual effects processing across a cluster of Apple’s Xserve G5 servers or Power Mac G5 desktop computers for maximum rendering performance and efficiency.

Shake completes the digital production pipeline as it tightly integrates with Apple’s Final Cut Studio, the ultimate HD video production suite which allows professional editors to work in any format from DV, SD, HD to film, and elevate production values with powerful editing tools, revolutionary sound design, real-time motion graphics and next generation DVD authoring. Shake can now launch directly from the Final Cut Pro 5 timeline and using the XML interchange format, cuts and layers from the timeline automatically generate a Shake process tree.

Logic Pro7

Logic Pro 7 is the complete professional solution for music creation and audio production. It combines an award-winning sequencing and audio workstation application with a comprehensive set of software instruments and plug-ins, state-of-the-art loop composition tools and the ability to utilize networked computers for additional processing power. With Logic Pro 7, you can take on any task in the pro audio workflow.