First sneak peek FinalCutPro 8

First sneak peek FinalCutPro 8: "

Well … after months and months of speculation and waiting today the curtain did drop, at least a lil bit.
Some first screenshots and feature-details “leaked” into the Video-Editing-World:

Well what can i say it seems like some fears getting reality.
The interface looks very familiar. First big change: it will be a more mouse editing oriented  NLE-App … one more step into iOS direction i guess.

Good thing though: FCP8 will be more integrated with Motion & Co. Not just templates & “send/link to” in a drop down menu. How far this integration goes is not specified publicly yet.It will be an App Store only app … you can buy all FinalCutStudio Apps standalone or in one package – pricing will be Announced. Apple will have a Special Event one week after NAB on 19th of April.

Some first Screenshots:

Key-Features are:

- 64 bit App

- Background Rendering

- GPU acceleration

- can use up to 64 GB Ram and all CPUs avalible

- native H.246 and R3D support including RED EPIC / HDRx and many other codecs

- new Title tools

- Quicktime Pro 11

- 3D editing mode

- ProRes 4444, 12bit only

- Blu-ray, CNN iReporter,  Vimeo, MySpace support

- Single Screen / Window App

- new Edit mode’s (called “Freehand” and “Mindreader”, “Auto-Blockbuster”)

Thats it … many more infos to come soon …

So is all that a good thing? … well?!

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