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Final Cut Pro is all up in the Oscars

CNET writes: In fact, 9 out of 10 of this year’s nominees in the “Documentary Feature” and “Documentary Short” categories used Final Cut Studio to make their films. Final Cut Studio includes Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, Compressor, and DVD Studio Pro, essentially giving filmmakers all of the tools they need to make a movie.

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Apple reportedly lays off 40 Final Cut team members

Two weeks ago, former Apple engineer and After Effects guru Pete Ward tweeted that Apple had let go of a good number of employees from the Final Cut team. Apple laid off 40 of my old Final Cut team yesterday, lots of good people, despite high profits. Apple can be pretty evil. Lest you be worried, Final Cut [...]

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Rumor: Apple to attend NAB 2010 with new version of Final Cut Pro

The last version of Final Cut announced at NAB was Final Cut Studio 2 which was released in 2007 amidst a ton of publicity and hoopla.  Since then, Apple has gone on to release Final Cut Studio 3, but that release has flown somewhat under the radar.  There was no big announcement at NAB to [...]

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Final Cut Pro putting people out of work

The Register has an interesting article discussing how the success of Apple’s suite of video and editing software, and specifically Final Cut Pro, is rendering certain jobs obsolete. As the cost of video-editing equipment has come down and the capabilities of commodity server-based software, such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro, have increased layers of complex older [...]

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