11:27am - "Clearly it's going to be an interesting show this year." You need something with a bunch of ports in the back, you need a handle, and you need a whole bunch of linking lights on the front. "We turned to our friends at AJA." It's called the IO-HD.
11:30am - Video: "You can edit HD on location on your MBP -- it's everything in and out from ProRes. It's really a new paradigm in post-production. It's really made possible by Final Cut Pro, ProRes, and the IO-HD . I think it's going to be another Apple earthquake that shakes things up in the post-production industry."
11:31am - It will be introduced at $3495 -- "About a fifth of the cost of competing system. That's ProRes 422. We think this format is coming out of the gate really strong. Talking about formats: we heard you. Open format timeline. Mixed formats, resolutions, framerates."
11:32am - "We took some of the great technology in Shake and brought SmoothCam down to Final Cut Pro, removes camera shaking. Now we also have editable Motion templates, access Motion templates without leaving FCP, update all instances without having to use Motion. It's all integrated." Paul Saccone on stage now demoing.
11:34am - Auto upscaling of lower-res clips, resolution and bitstream independent -- showing 960 x 720 5Mbps video upscaled right next to 1080p at 125MBps. Oohs and aahs.
11:36am - Showing new Motion integration, not having to leave the app to access Motion templates, text overlays, adding motion projects, etc. Unrendered video with effects and overlays previewing totally unrendered. Not [too] shabby!
11:39am - We introduced effects plugs -- they've added dozens of them. GPU-accelerated realtime playback of filters and effects. Switching over to ProRes -- comparing ProRes and uncompressed video, 127MBps vs 19MBps."Visually indistinguishable." The screen is split between the two formats, looks pretty freaking amazing.
11:41am - "We're just getting started. Going to turn my attention now to Motion 3 -- this year we're embracing 3D, extended all the familiar tools into cameras, light sources, navigation of 3D space... create the kind of graphics you want to create. We're adding paint. Particles, video, pictures, pen -- speed, pressure sensitivity -- and throw behaviors on the strokes to bring that paint to live. Something shockingly complicated in the past is now easy: match moving."
11:43am - "Track, match, and move on. Retiming is a powerful tool, but is too complicated. We've married retiming with behaviors, and created the exactly the kind of retiming effects you want. It will dramatically change how you think about retiming. Next up: audio behaviors. Control anims by volume and frequency. To take a quick tour of the new Motion, I'd like to introduce Dion Scoppettuolo." Demoing new Motion features.
11:46am - Syncing 3D animation to audio behavior, looks super easy. Now he's applying tracking behavior to motion tracking with highlight points -- attach animations and overlays directly to frame tracking points incredibly easily. "But I know that's not the kind of 3D you came to see. Reach under your chairs, there are 3D glasses." Har har!
11:52am - Showing 3D camera perspectives, layer lists with virtual dolly pullups, sweeping behaviors, paint tools ("to add a swoosh -- that's a technical term."), all kinds of crazy 3D video editing effects. Editing particle systems, vector effects and graphics -- "you have a nice little checkbox here... 3D. Click on that, the particles appear in 3D."
11:54am - Big applause. "So that's a quick look at the new Motion. Let's turn our attention to sound. Soundtrack Pro 2. Aligning sound effects and audio with a 3-up video HUD. Advanced take management with composited audio tracks. Also embraces surround mixing at its core -- one of the key things, we do this in a single project, stereo and surround mix encapsulated in the same project." 5.1 support, panning and speaker-to-speaker automation.
11:56am - "The incredible new Conform feature. Change tracking, sync changes, difference highlights, accept or override..." Alec Little to demo now.
Soundtrack library to include library of over 1000 music and sound effects in 5.1
12:02pm - Fade selector tool, built-in waveform editor -- including a frequency spectrum view. Draw a box around the problem frequency -- delete a portion of sound. He just perfectly removed a bump in a mic from an audio track during dialogue! Daaaamn. Perhaps we should get this for the Engadget Podcast.
12:07pm - Take editor -- making a comp, select which portion of which take to use. Just grabbed four soundtrack takes and instantly composited them. Demoing sound effects, syncing sound effect with a video HUD, quickly synced a royalty-free sound effect in under 10 seconds. Demoing Conform feature -- new edits with cut (or added clips) that would otherwise take hours with a bunch of sound effects and bites can now be pushed through rapidly with grouped approvals of intelligently re-synced edits.
12:14pm - All six channels are included in one clip, so you don't have to deal with multiple tracks when working with 5.1. Showed final clip, audio sounds really amazing, and the whole 30 second preview was just created in a few minutes. "Now I'm going to turn my attention to Compressor 3. It's now a major marquee member of the Final Pro suite. It's industrial strength." It now features simplified cluster setup, extended to MPEG-2, H.264, Telestream Episode Pro plug-in with VC-1, WMV, FLV... dynamic filters with timecode overlays, animated motion watermarks.
Macrumors:
12:15 pm\tCompressor demo
12:15 pm\tCompressor 3 is 3x faster
12:13 pm\tnew iPod and AppleTV presets (of course)
Comments
11:30am - Video: "You can edit HD on location on your MBP -- it's everything in and out from ProRes. It's really a new paradigm in post-production. It's really made possible by Final Cut Pro, ProRes, and the IO-HD . I think it's going to be another Apple earthquake that shakes things up in the post-production industry."
11:31am - It will be introduced at $3495 -- "About a fifth of the cost of competing system. That's ProRes 422. We think this format is coming out of the gate really strong. Talking about formats: we heard you. Open format timeline. Mixed formats, resolutions, framerates."
11:34am - Auto upscaling of lower-res clips, resolution and bitstream independent -- showing 960 x 720 5Mbps video upscaled right next to 1080p at 125MBps. Oohs and aahs.
(all previous posts from Engadget)
11:39am - We introduced effects plugs -- they've added dozens of them. GPU-accelerated realtime playback of filters and effects. Switching over to ProRes -- comparing ProRes and uncompressed video, 127MBps vs 19MBps."Visually indistinguishable." The screen is split between the two formats, looks pretty freaking amazing.
11:41am - "We're just getting started. Going to turn my attention now to Motion 3 -- this year we're embracing 3D, extended all the familiar tools into cameras, light sources, navigation of 3D space... create the kind of graphics you want to create. We're adding paint. Particles, video, pictures, pen -- speed, pressure sensitivity -- and throw behaviors on the strokes to bring that paint to live. Something shockingly complicated in the past is now easy: match moving."
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Looks like Motion 3 --- gunning for AfterEffects
Holy Marconi!
haha they have 3d glasses under their seats!!!
what i'm getting from this, is that you can now make things 3d using final cut.
Totally. After Effects, when it went 3D, brought on a whole new design culture and trend for motion graphics. This was a few years ago...
11:56am - "The incredible new Conform feature. Change tracking, sync changes, difference highlights, accept or override..." Alec Little to demo now.
5.1 surround sound support.
12:02pm - Fade selector tool, built-in waveform editor -- including a frequency spectrum view. Draw a box around the problem frequency -- delete a portion of sound. He just perfectly removed a bump in a mic from an audio track during dialogue! Daaaamn. Perhaps we should get this for the Engadget Podcast.
We are 1 hour into the Session.
How long are they usually?
How long are they usually?
1.5 hours... ?? Can be up to 2 hours.
1.5 hours... ?? Can be up to 2 hours.
Cool
Macrumors:
12:15 pm\tCompressor demo
12:15 pm\tCompressor 3 is 3x faster
12:13 pm\tnew iPod and AppleTV presets (of course)
12:13 pm\tCompressor 3