Toutes les nouveautés Apple : Nouveau produit la solution de stockage centralisée : Apple Xsan Storage Network, Nouveau logiciel Apple Motion, Lancement de Shake 3.5; DVD Studio Pro 3; Final Cut Pro HD. > toutes les news en anglais, à lire : Apple Introduces Xsan Storage Area Network File System High-Performance Enterprise-Class SAN Solution Priced at $999 Apple® today introduced Xsan, a high-performance, enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at the industry’s most aggressive price point of $999 per system. Xsan software combines breakthrough performance with Apple’s legendary ease-of-use for customers who require scalable, high-speed access to centralized shared data for video workflow and storage consolidation, and is the perfect complement to Apple’s award-winning Xserve® and Xserve RAID hardware. “Apple’s pro video and IT customers now have an affordable, high-performance SAN file system on Mac OS X,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Xsan delivers a powerful end-to-end SAN solution, with less complexity and no hidden charges, at under half the price of alternatives from Avid, IBM and SGI.” Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OS® X that enables organizations to consolidate storage resources and provide multiple computers with concurrent file-level read/write access to shared volumes over Fibre Channel. It is certified with Apple’s suite of professional applications, including Final Cut Pro® HD, Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software and Motion, a breakthrough new application that redefines professional motion graphics production. For the first time on Mac OS X, up to 64 video professionals can simultaneously access a single storage volume that supports multiple high-bandwidth video streams for efficient workflow in video and film editing, audio editing and effects, and motion graphics creation. “Xsan will build on our investment in Final Cut Pro, Xserve and Xserve RAID to deliver a high-performance, end-to-end SAN solution for video workflow,” said Bob Farina, CEO of the Cimarron Group, one of Hollywood’s largest entertainment marketing agencies. “We’re thrilled with Xsan because no other solution on the platform can provide the performance, functionality, stability and security that we require to produce trailers and more for the next generation of blockbuster movies.” Xsan is ideal for demanding professional video workflows as well as storage consolidation for business, government, education and high-performance computing. Advanced features such as metadata controller failover and Fibre Channel multipathing ensure high availability; file-level locking allows multiple systems to read and write concurrently to the same volume which is ideal for complex workflows; bandwidth reservation provides for effective ingestion of bandwidth-intensive data streams, such as high resolution video; and flexible volume management results in more efficient use of storage resources. Set up, administration and monitoring is built into the Xsan Admin tool which provides volume management, SAN file system configuration and remote monitoring in one integrated, easy-to-use application. User quotas and access controls allow administrators to restrict storage usage and file access for maximum data security. Since Xsan is interoperable with ADIC’s StorNext File System, it can be used in heterogeneous environments that include Windows, UNIX and Linux server operating system platforms. Additionally, Xsan is supported by ADIC’s industry leading data management software, StorNext Management Suite. “We are delighted that Xsan is interoperable with StorNext File System and our full range of policy-based data management software,” said Bill Yaman, vice president of ADIC Software. “By integrating Mac OS X data into their unified storage environments, our customers will optimize storage utilization, simplify data management and further build a foundation for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).” . Pricing & Availability : A beta version of Xsan is available immediately to qualified customers at www.apple.com/xsan. Xsan will be available in Fall 2004 through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $999 (US) per system. Apple has qualified Xsan with Xserve G4, Xserve G5, Power Mac® G4, Power Mac G5, Xserve RAID and Apple Fibre Channel PCI cards. Xsan requires Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server v.10.3 software installed and will support Fibre Channel switches from qualified vendors, such as Brocade, QLogic or Emulex. Apple Announces Shake 3.5 Adds New High-Quality ‘Shape Shifting’ Effects (April 18,2004) Apple® today announced Shake® 3.5, featuring new shape-based morphing and warping tools for advanced compositing and new “shape shifting” special effects. Designed for major motion picture studios and leading visual effects houses, Shake has been used in the production of every Oscar-winning film for Best Visual Effects over the past seven years, including this year’s winner “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” Fine-tuned to take advantage of the incredible performance and architecture of the Power Mac® G5 and Mac OS® X version 10.3 “Panther,” Shake 3.5 provides an efficient and effective workflow for visual effects artists. “As high-resolution formats like HD become commonplace in post-production, Shake is the production proven product for delivering quality, speed, openness and affordability for resolution independent visual effects,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Marketing. “Apple has integrated shape-based morphing and warping, the most highly sought after features for our users, directly into Shake 3.5, making these advanced features even easier to create.” The new shape-based morphing and warping features in Shake 3.5 use industry standard spline tools, making it more intuitive to create and modify effects than with traditional mesh-based warping tools. Morphing and warping further enhance Shake’s visual effects tools, including layering, tracking, rotoscoping, painting and color correction. Shake 3.5 also improves upon the Rendezvous™ enabled Shake Qmaster network render manager that can now handle distributed rendering tasks for both Shake and Alias’ Maya, allowing visual effects artists to easily distribute rendering tasks across a cluster of Apple’s Xserve® G5 servers or desktop Power Mac G5 computers for maximum performance and efficiency. With the addition of support for 16-bit RGB and 10-bit YUV QuickTime® formats, Shake 3.5 ensures that the highest quality image is always maintained whether exchanging media with Final Cut Pro® HD or archiving entire sequences. Shake 3.5 features one of the fastest resolution independent software rendering engines on the market, with production proven visual effects tools and a compositing architecture that supports multiple resolutions and color bit depths simultaneously without compromise. With Shake 3.5, visual effects artists can selectively choose which operations process at 8-, 16-, or 32- bit floating color bit-depth, allowing high dynamic range images to be composited with greater fidelity while still maintaining high performance. Shake 3.5 also includes the industry’s leading keyers, Photron Primatte and CFC Keylight, to achieve the best results. Shake 3.5 offers unprecedented integration with Apple’s suite of professional applications, including Final Cut Pro HD, Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software; Motion, a breakthrough new application that redefines professional motion graphics production; DVD Studio Pro® 3, a professional DVD authoring application; Soundtrack, the innovative music composition tool; and Logic® Pro 6, the standard in computer-based music production. . Pricing & Availability : Shake 3.5 is available immediately for Mac OS X, Linux and IRIX through Apple Authorized Pro Film Resellers. Shake 3.5 will be available for Mac OS X with unlimited render licenses for a suggested retail price of $2,999 (US). Registered users of Shake 3 can upgrade for $799 (US). A full list of Shake 3.5 system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/shake. Apple Announces DVD Studio Pro 3 Features Revolutionary Alpha Transitions, Graphical View & HD to MPEG-2 Encoding (April 18,2004) Apple® today announced DVD Studio Pro® 3, the latest version of Apple’s professional DVD authoring application that gives users a complete set of tools for modern DVD design and authoring. DVD Studio Pro 3 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 3 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. “DVD Studio Pro is the most sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, professional DVD authoring application on any platform,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Marketing. “With its tight integration between Final Cut Pro HD, Motion and Adobe Photoshop, DVD Studio Pro 3 is the most complete environment for creating compelling DVDs.” DVD Studio Pro 3 delivers 30 professionally designed transitions that can be blended seamlessly between menus, slides in slideshows and stills in tracks with just a click of the mouse. In addition to standard transitions, such as dissolve, radial blur and fade through color, DVD Studio Pro 3 features revolutionary new Alpha Transitions, which are stunning QuickTime® based movie transitions that add a new level of elegance and sophistication to DVDs. DVD authors can also build their own Alpha Transitions from scratch with Apple’s Motion or Adobe After Effects and quickly add them into DVD Studio Pro 3. The innovative new Graphical View allows DVD authors to develop and interact with their entire project in a storyboard environment. Graphical View makes it easy to see the relationships between menus, tracks, slideshows, stories and scripts. DVD Studio Pro 3 also gives users the ability to print the Graphical View layout to clearly communicate ideas with clients for approval. In addition to DV and SD, DVD Studio Pro 3 now provides the ability to scale HD and encode directly to MPEG-2 all in one step. Using Compressor 1.2, Final Cut Pro® HD editors can save time, money, effort and hard disk space by encoding directly from HD to MPEG-2, and users can maximize the integrated workflow between Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro 3. In addition to support for Dolby Digital, DVD Studio Pro 3 now includes DTS 5.1 audio support to provide users with the best options for creating the highest quality surround sound audio for professional DVDs. DVD Studio Pro 3 offers unprecedented integration with Apple’s suite of professional applications, including Final Cut Pro HD, the latest version of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software; Motion, a breakthrough new application that redefines professional motion graphics production; Shake® 3.5, the latest version of the industry-leading compositing and visual effects software; Soundtrack, the innovative music composition tool; and Logic® Pro 6, the standard in computer-based music production. . Pricing & Availability : DVD Studio Pro 3 will be available in May through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $499 (US). Registered users of DVD Studio Pro 1 and 2 can upgrade to DVD Studio Pro 3 for $199 (US). Full system requirements and more information on DVD Studio Pro 3 can be found at www.apple.com/dvdstudiopro. Apple Introduces Motion Revolutionary New Application Redefines Motion Graphics (April 18,2004) Apple® today introduced Motion, a revolutionary new application that redefines motion graphics by giving artists the creative freedom and power to deliver stunning professional quality results faster and more intuitively than ever before at a breakthrough price of $299. Motion features interactive animation of text, graphics and video, with instant previewing of multiple filters and particle effects, and introduces “Behaviors” that allow artists to add natural looking movement to type and graphics, such as gravity and wind, without the use of complex keyframes. “Motion opens the door for everyone to create professional-quality motion graphics by eliminating the need for complex timelines and keyframes, » said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Marketing. “With its revolutionary technology, breakthrough ease-of-use and low $299 price tag, Motion may do for motion graphics what Final Cut Pro did for non-linear editing—bring the ability to create pro-quality results to the masses.” Motion’s Behaviors use procedural animation techniques to create natural simulations, such as gravity and wind, or sophisticated interaction between multiple objects, such as attraction and repulsion. Behaviors provide users with the ability to automatically generate simple or sophisticated fluid motion effects with minimal effort and make modifications spontaneously, all without the complexity or overhead of dealing with keyframes. Users familiar with keyframes can use Motion’s Keyframe Editor to plot precise parameter values at specific frames. Motion also includes an advanced particle engine that enables artists to quickly and easily apply realistic particle presets such as smoke, sparkles and fire to any animation. Using Motion, virtually any graphic element on the screen can be turned into a particle and then modified to create unlimited, customized special effects. With its breakthrough user interface, Motion gives artists the freedom to spend less time managing windows and palettes and more time creating. Motion’s “Dashboards” give users contextual, semi-transparent floating palettes that provide the tools and slider parameters for objects being animated on screen. Behaviors are applied quickly and easily with a graphical control that appears on the Dashboard, making it easy and interactive to experiment with different animations. Motion also includes 25 “Gestures” that enable users to focus on the creative process, rather than searching for keyboard commands or menu items. With Motion’s Project Pane, users have an easy way to quickly view and manage all layers, filters, Behaviors, masks and objects within a project at once. Motion offers unprecedented integration with Apple’s suite of professional applications, including Final Cut Pro® HD, the latest version of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software; DVD Studio Pro® 3, a professional DVD authoring application; Shake® 3.5, the latest version of Apple’s industry-leading compositing and visual effects software; Soundtrack, the innovative music composition tool; and Logic® Pro 6, the standard in computer-based music production. . Pricing & Availability : Motion will be available this summer through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $299 (US). Full system requirements and more information on Motion can be found at www.apple.com/motion. Apple Unveils Final Cut Pro HD First Video Editing Software to Deliver Real-Time, Native DVCPRO HD Editing & Effects (April 18,2004) Apple® today unveiled Final Cut Pro® HD, the latest version of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software, now with the real-time performance of high-quality native DVCPRO HD in addition to real-time support for DV and SD. Final Cut Pro HD delivers the ability to capture, edit and output broadcast-quality high definition (HD) video over a single FireWire® cable, without requiring any additional hardware—an industry first. Final Cut Pro HD supports native DVCPRO HD editing with no recompression or image degradation and enables HD preview monitoring on an Apple Cinema HD Display. “Apple revolutionized the video industry with DV editing and FireWire,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Marketing. “With Final Cut Pro HD, we’re bringing real-time, native HD editing to customers at a breakthrough price.” Taking advantage of the incredible performance and architecture of the Power Mac® G5 and Mac OS® X version 10.3 “Panther,” Final Cut Pro HD provides playback of up to four streams of native DVCPRO HD video or when adding an Xserve® RAID, up to 10 streams in preview quality. Final Cut Pro HD’s support of native DVCPRO HD makes media conversion unnecessary, preserving the full quality of the camera original. Final Cut Pro HD’s frame-accurate, native DVCPRO HD editing environment gives broadcasters, producers and post-production professionals the ability to capture, edit and output broadcast-quality HD video, and the freedom to cut HD video anywhere, even on a PowerBook®. Final Cut Pro HD’s Digital Cinema Desktop feature allows basic SD and HD monitoring directly to an Apple Cinema Display®, further lowering the cost of entry for working in HD editing. Built on the open architecture of QuickTime®, Final Cut Pro HD scales smoothly from DV through SD, HD and film. Final Cut Pro HD can output to most professional tape formats or encode MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and QuickTime files for DVD, web, or delivery on 3G devices. Final Cut Pro HD offers unprecedented integration with Apple’s suite of professional applications, including Motion, a breakthrough new application that redefines professional motion graphics production; DVD Studio Pro 3, a professional DVD authoring application; Shake® 3.5, a new version of the industry-leading compositing and visual effects software; and Logic® Pro 6, the standard in computer-based music production. Final Cut Pro HD includes precision, non-modal editing and trimming tools; powerful interface customization features; advanced real-time color correction and image control; and enhanced audio editing capabilities with multi-track audio mixing and multi-channel audio output. Using RT Extreme, Final Cut Pro HD offers more than 150 render-free filters, effects and transitions. Final Cut Pro HD includes LiveType 1.2 for resolution independent animated titling, Soundtrack 1.2 for loop-based music creation, Compressor 1.2 for HD encoding and Cinema Tools for filmmakers working with 35mm or 16mm film. . Pricing & Availability : Final Cut Pro HD is available immediately to registered Final Cut Pro 4 users. The Final Cut Pro HD retail package is available for pre-order through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $999 (US). Final Cut Pro 1, 2, and 3 users can upgrade to Final Cut Pro HD for $399 (US). Full system requirements and more information on Final Cut Pro HD, including a list of certified, compatible hardware and software, can be found at www.apple.com/finalcutpro.