Final Cut Extreme plus New Hardware!

[Entheogen]

For you crazy fools who'll be able to afford Final Cut Pro Extreme + the dedicated hardware:


"ThinkSecret, writing for PCMagazine, claims to have additional details about Final Cut Pro 6, Final Cut Extreme, and long-rumored display upgrades.

Final Cut Extreme is said to enable the most demanding users to edit uncompressed 4K and 2540p video. Compatibility is said to include Red Digital Cinema's Red, Panavision Genesis, Dalsa Origin, Thompson Viper, Sony Cinealta, Phantom HD, and Arri D20 cameras.

To add to this report, MacRumors has received unconfirmed information regarding the hardware of the system. The Core card is said to utilize 4 Cell BE chips (as used in the Sony Playstation 3), with two additional "accelerator" cards being available, each containing 6 Cell chips. According to our source, the Core card will have 4 HD-SDI inputs, and a connector for a breakout box, as only 2 cards will be able to work in the Mac Pro (the only machine said to be compatible with the high-end system).

In regards to Final Cut Pro 6, the site believes the software will require a 64-bit chip (G5, Core 2 Duo, Xeon) to run. In addition, integration with Core Animation is reiterated, and the site adds that the software will indeed be Leopard-dependent.
Those high-end requirements will also allow the new Final Cut Studio to support resolution independence, a new feature of Leopard that allows an application's interface to scale with the display's resolution, ideal for users working with high resolution displays with a high number of pixels packed into each square inch.

Regarding displays, ThinkSecret believes that displays may be coming around NAB as well, including a new high-end display capable of supporting 4K+ resolutions. The site also believes that Apple may bump the 17" MacBook Pro display to support native HD video editing.

Display rumors have been floating around for a few months. Some previous rumors can be found here."

(MacRumors.com)

Do peeps think it will it be possible to use the Cell based hardware to run VJ apps?

[vj_jasper]

Cell might run apple Motion too?
not sure if Motion is a vj app.

[makemassair]

it's kinda a live after effects. It can be used as a VJ tool thou if you have enough RAM. I don't

[vjrei]

I was banned from Macrumors early last year. Some guy started to create a blug using my comments and profile information as well every personal data from people I spoke about. He had a blog containing information for ate least 2 years. Something crazy.

I wrote to Arn (the owner of Macrumors) to delete the references and then they banned me as well. Whe never knew the identity of the guy in the forums and he had not identity in his blugs.

[vj_jasper]

if you could only find out who did that, it would be feasible to force them into buying you a Cell system hardware accelerator and final cut pro xtreme. potentially.

seriously... a vj app that is like a realtime after effects with just the simple purchase of extra ram? where do i sign up...

i hear Motion is midi controllable too. would it also be realtime without the Cell hardware, just running on a good spec macbook pro?

[sleepytom]

Motion is a VJ app - it will run fast enough for realtime effects processing on the MBP.
it has midi control and there is a live input plugin for motion so you can use it for live stream effects processing.

It's not quite a full blown VJ app out of the box but it can certainly be usefully used in a live environment - Pete Warden has made sure of that (and uses it live himself)

Arguably apple has 2 VJ packages - Motion and Quartz Composer. Neither are quite ideal yet and it will take a while for apple to bite the bullet and really produce an app directly aimed at VJs. (they are aware of VJs though and have even done the market research to see if VJs constitute a viable market yet - as you might guess they concluded that this is not yet the case.)