Year: 2003

Revolution 2.0 beta released

Posted by | Apr 7, 2003 | |

Runtime Revolution has released a beta version of Revolution 2.0, its multi-platform development tool. The new release brings an XML library with full support for creating and parsing documents; SOAP support; Unicode text entry and manipulation; a new user interface with enhanced Mac OS X Jaguar look and feel; improved database access on all platforms with PostgreSQL support, MySQL SSL connections & point-and-click setup; video capture, text-to-speech, and more multimedia enhancements; new drag-and-drop architecture; and more.

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Apple introduces Shake 3

Posted by | Apr 6, 2003 | |

Apple today announced Shake 3, a new version of its industry-leading compositing and visual effects software. Shake 3 includes new Mac OS X-only features such as the Shake Qmaster network render management software and unlimited network rendering licenses which allow visual effects artists to easily distribute rendering tasks across a cluster of Apple’s Xserve 1U rack servers or desktop Power Mac G4s for maximum performance and efficiency.

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Apple unveils DVD Studio Pro 2

Posted by | Apr 6, 2003 | |

Apple today announced DVD Studio Pro 2, “a completely new DVD authoring product, rebuilt from the ground up with a breakthrough user interface and packed with innovative features that redefine professional DVD authoring,” according to the company. DVD Studio Pro 2 features professionally designed and fully customizable templates, a new menu editor, timeline-based track editing and a new world-class, software-based MPEG-2 encoder.

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Apple announces Final Cut Pro 4

Posted by | Apr 6, 2003 | |

Apple today introduced Final Cut Pro 4, a major upgrade of its Emmy award-winning editing software for film, HD, SD and DV. Final Cut Pro 4 offers more than 300 new features, and introduces RT Extreme for real-time composting and effects, powerful new interface customization tools, new high-quality 8- and 10-bit uncompressed formats and for the first time in an editing system costing less than US$100,000, full 32-bit floating point per channel video processing.

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