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To: Retiarius who wrote (24667)	5/7/1999 8:23:00 PM
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Attended an Apple Final Cut Pro seminar. I've never done any video editing but was there with a PB tech from Tekserve who is a videomaker. We were both blown away! apple.com Some points: * The level of sophistication is unbelievable (this is FCP 1.0) and the hardware costs are far less than I thought. Essentially, if you are setting up a base Blue & White (or Beige w/266+ and Firewire) for Photoshop, you've got all you need: 300-400 mhz processor 128-256 mb ram 1 or 2 IDE drives (plus a PCI card for the second IDE drive) Add a Firewire camera, deck and $999 for FCPro and you have a turnkey system for as little as $4000. That's it, no accelerator cards, no fast/wide scsi cards or drives needed!! * The Apple rep used the phrase "80/20" - meaning 80% of the functionality of an Avid system for 20% of the price. * Fee-based phone support will cost $2500/year. * Seminars and full blown hands-on workshops to be scheduled: seminars.apple.com * Japanese and 5 Euro-language versions to ship later this year. * Firewire PC cards from Newer to ship this summer will enable 300 mhz Wall Streets to run FCP. * Regarding the future, he said "Think Altivec." Add in QT Streaming Server and I think AAPL has put together a brilliant low-mid end content acquisition/manipulation/distribution system. If I had any guts, I'd be shorting AVID. Big time. PS> Please don't pump me for FCP info, I barely understand this much: info.apple.com

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