Susan Meiselas - She configures these projects on an informally distributed network of not so gently used Macs. “I’ve used Macs forever,” says Meiselas. “And if you visited my studio, you’d see all the various former lives of Apple computers. I did ‘Dead Birds…Revisited’ on my Power Mac G3.”

Hans Zimmer - Learning About Orchestras - “ Today, it’s amazing what you can do on a PowerBook,” he says. “It’s a more democratic system again. You don’t have to have hundreds of thousands of dollars. You just need to have some good ideas and be able to put them into action. And you have to have talent and musicianship.”

Apple - Pro/Music - Richard Devine - For sound design, composition, remixing and producing, Devine uses everything he can get his hands on. “I use Logic Audio quite a bit, Reaktor, Supercollider, Cycling 74’s Max/MSP and Pluggo, GRM Tools, CDP, Soundhack, Soundmaker, Bias Peak, Metasynth… Kyma.” He has a full ProTools system at his studio, with a hard-disk recording and mastering setup, a dual-processor Power Mac G4 with a SuperDrive and two top-of-the-line Apogee D/A converters

Apple - Pro/Music - Building Music for the Movies - If you listen to any dense piece of music — which is most of it — the density comes from my ability to freely experiment and play on the computer myself. I develop ideas of this against this against this against this. With the Mac, I have an experimental freedom that’s not possible unless you have unlimited amounts of money and unlimited amounts of time to bring in players to experiment and experiment and experiment.”

Apple - Pro/Music - Jack Dangers - “The first album I did for Consolidated, ‘Friendly Fascism,’ was edited using the very first version of Sound Design,” says Dangers. “That was the first time I’d ever used a Macintosh. “ Back then, Consolidated were using a lot of Emax. They had just gotten into the Macintosh, but their first album had been done on an Alesis sampler. So, it was pretty lo-fi. “ But then after that, they stepped up to using the Mac,” he adds.

Apple - Pro/Photo - John Isaac - Although he was equipped to process his photos in the field, Isaac held off at the request of his editors, who wanted raw files. “I didn’t edit much, but using Photoshop, I made image files and contact sheets with captions. Then I wrote the files to 10 or 15 CDs on my iBook, which made them much easier to review,” he says

Alias Reports 25% Of US Maya Sales Are For Mac, Maya On The G5 Is "Fast" - According to the company, Mac sales account for some 25% of Maya sales in the US. In Alias's worldwide sales, Mac OS X accounts for some 20% of Maya sales, a slightly lower figure, but very respectable. This could be why the company made a simultaneous release of Maya 5 for all the platforms it supports, including Mac OS X. Previous versions of Maya were released later on the Mac than on Windows, Irix, and the other platforms Maya supports.

Apple - Pro/Video - AJ Schnack - “We depend on our iMacs and iBook and PowerBook every day,” says Schnack. “Gigantic” was filmed with a Sony PD 150 DV-camcorder; the director used built-in camera sound along with lavaliere and boom mics. Editing for the entire movie and its trailer was done with Final Cut Pro.

Apple - Pro/Video - Ocean Future - The moment Julius Braunschweig sat down in front of the Mac to begin editing a television documentary on sharks for Jean-Michel Cousteau, he ran into a problem.

3-D Product Design - “Because of the branding we were doing, this was of particular interest to me because we were doing a lot of manipulation of found imagery. He brought that capability to us — to show us how it could be done on Macs — and from that point, it started kind of a snowball effect.”

Inside Endorphin.com: Mac Made Videos On The Web - Endorphin Productions' Web site has always been a popular spot for Net surfers looking for views of California, and the site's high resolution content has been featured on Apple's QuickTime Web site. Little wonder, QuickTime and other Apple technologies are central to the creation of EPI's breathtaking movies

Country group Lonestar switches, with Mac dealer's help - "Lonestar, a once Windows-using band, has made the switch to the Mac," Lucas Leverett, MacAuthority's art and promotions director, told MacCentral. "After they showed their enthusiasm for the Mac, and upon realizing how thrilled they were with their switch, we decided to involve them in our new billboard ad campaign."

Making the Cut: Producing a TV Series on the Mac - It's a familiar story: a small faction of dedicated Macintosh users struggling to be heard in a Windows-dominated office. It doesn't seem to matter whether your company is selling life insurance or producing TV shows, it's always an uphill and frequently impossible battle. Once in a great while, circumstances can come together in such a way that real changes can start taking place

Just midway between MusikMesse in Germany and summer NAMM 2003 in Nashville, audio companies are spawning new developments for Mac OS X daily. An online search or visit to sites such as Harmony Central or OS X Audio reveals an amazing candy store of tasty new AudioUnits plugins.

Apple - DVD Studio Pro - Stories - George Spyros - Filmmaker George Spyros has distinguished himself both as an award-winning director and as someone who can use "creative" and "corporate" to describe the same production. That talent found him behind the camera recently, directing hours of digital video footage for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc.
The project, authored in DVD Studio Pro , resulted in nearly 17,000 replicated DVDs for Pfizer

Apple's invite to architects - Apple's attendance at the show comes as architects look at the company with renewed interest, tempted by Mac OS X's Unix underpinning

Apple - Pro/Design - Keith Hillebrandt - Logic and Peak for Sound Design Today, when Hillebrandt designs his crazy, droney, tweaky and atmospheric mood-touching sounds and soundscapes, he relies on a Power Mac running Logic and Peak. "Peak is my main program. It is always the front end and the back end of my sounds

Apple - Hot News - Liam Lynch - Lynch spent months shooting and editing skits and music videos, including segments showing how he cuts his own videos in Final Cut Pro and how he assembled the menus and content for the DVD using DVD Studio Pro . He also uses Poser for animation

Revolution in Movie Affairs - In case you think the DV thing is just another fad where computer makers are selling dreams of Hollywood to starry-eyed film students, consider that on the professional level, it's no less revolutionary: Oscar winning editor Walter Murch ("Apocalypse Now," "The English Patient") switched from the industry standard Avid to Apple G4s with Final Cut Pro (FCP) for Cold Mountain , the new feature he is editing for director Anthony Minghella. According to Murch , FCP gives him more creative flexibility and power than Avid for half the cost

Apple Seeks Submissions For Eighth Annual Apple Design Awards - Apple also sent out a letter to Apple Developer Connection members inviting them to submit their products for inclusion in the Apple Design Awards. As mentioned before, the prizes for the Apple Design Awards include a 17" PowerBook with a 23" Cinema Display HD, as well as a trophy and the right to advertise the Award

Just Switched To Mac, What Sequencer Should I Use? , Cubase SX? Cubase SL? MOTU DP? Protools? - Hey everybody. I just recently switched from a PC to my wonderful new PowerMac duel 1.25GHz G4. While on PC I used Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and Sonar for all my recording/sequencing. Now that I'm on a mac, what should I look into? I seem to have noticed that the big players are Protools 6, MOTU Digital Performer, and Cubase. Any others I should look into?

Apple Design Awards at WWDC 2003 - Announcing the Eighth Annual Apple Design Awards, now expanded into two contests-the Apple Design Awards for Application Software and the Apple Design Awards for QuickTime Content

Apple - Pro/Photo - Seamus Conlan - After capture, Conlan's workflow runs through a Mac. "I travel with a PowerBook G4, which is absolutely beautiful - 30 gig drive, burns CDs, perfect." Conlan uses the Mac to track and edit in the field, even as a kind of video hotplate. "Generally with digital - as with film negs - there is a color balance problem. But really all that I do is alter the color balance in Photoshop using a small program I developed around the automatic actions. I basically select the folder and allow Photoshop to put one touch of yellow on every image, just to warm them up slightly, because they are generally a little cold when they come out of my Canon camera."

Apple - Pro/Photo - James Nachtwey - The working procedures of our agency, VII, are based on decentralized production. Each photographer independently produces their own scans, tones them and transmits them to the agency. Having our filing cabinets in cyberspace saves us a lot on rent and staff and keeps our operation lean and affordable. Computers come into play every bit as much, even though most of our pictures originate on film. In the field I carry a PowerBook G4, and in my studio I use a dual processor Power Mac G4 and an Epson 2200 printer.

Apple - Hot News - Micah Herman - Editing the multi-lingual dialog scenes proved to be a very tricky process for Micah, so he chose to work alongside dialog editor Tobias Fueter. "I ended up running out of time in my Avid slot, so I just bought a PowerBook G4 and I started doing my editing in Final Cut Pro when I wasn't able to get into the Avid suite," he says

Apple - Pro/Photo - Eli Reed - Reed ended up worrying less about capturing digital images than about losing them as they jumped the synapses between camera, memory card, Digital Wallet and PowerBook. "I was concerned they would be too easy to lose, but that really wasn't a problem. The Digital Wallet was a good way to hold a lot of images without carrying a lot of cards. So I just downloaded the images when I had a moment between locations," he says

Apple - Pro/Photo - Kevin Gilbert - Gilbert gave his method a timed test of unprecedented scope recently when he served both as workflow architect and participating photographer for "A Day in the Life of Africa," a transcontinental shoot with 100 participating photographers and a 24-hour deadline. "The Day in the Life folks needed to make sure they knew what they were doing with a hundred great photographers, most of whom had not shot digital," says Gilbert. "We brought in Power Mac G4s and Apple Cinema Displays with backup FireWire drives and CD burners, then worked through the whole system as a team."

Apple - Hot News - Winter NAMM 2003 - Virtual instruments and samplers, sound modules and effects plug-ins, USB-connectible controllers and mixers, Moog modeling plug-ins, and iGuitars were all the buzz of this year's Winter NAMM. And there were plenty of new arrivals for Mac OS X .

NAMM Report: OS X audio coming of age - The NAMM tradeshow held last week in Anaheim, CA, let distributors, retailers and manufacturers of musical instruments and products, showcase the products they'll roll out and sell through the first half of 2003. It also provided a comprehensive look at the major tools and technologies that will enable Mac musicians finally to move fulltime to Mac OS X this year

Apple - Hot News - DV Expo West - For two evenings, a film festival after the conference showcased short films, most cut on Macs, by up-and-coming film directors. We caught up with several of the film makers to find out what tools they used to make their film, and how Macs helped in the process.

Apple - Shake - Lord of the Rings - WETA is simultaneously producing all three films in the trilogy: "The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King." To date, Shake has been instrumental in helping WETA tackle more than 1,000 compositing-intensive effects shots on the projects

Cut to the chase  - Editors tend to get in a groove with a system they're comfortable with and stay there for decades. For most, it was a slow and painful transition from mechanical splicers to the computerized, nonlinear systems of which Avid has become something of a de facto standard. In the past year or two, however, Avid has been fending off parries from the low-cost challenger Final Cut Pro, which actually has gained some ground in the areas of television, commercials and trailers. Now it has cleared another major hurdle -- its first big-league feature. Esteemed editor Walter Murch sent ripples of surprise through the editing community when he decided to use the system to cut Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain," due out Christmas 2003, for Miramax

Pundits praise Apple design team - Wired Magazine has nominated Apple's Industrial Design team for a RAVE award in recognition for its work on the LCD iMac

Software helps anyone become a moviemaker - The easiest of the free software to use, and by far the most powerful, is iMovie from Apple (www.apple.com/imovie). This software is so elegant and intuitive that I edited my first video without even looking at the instructions

Apple - Hot News - New Forms of Art - Alfred students and faculty exclusively use Macintosh in three state-of-the-art computer labs containing 68 Power Mac G4s with 17-inch Apple Studio Displays. Peripheral equipment ranges from wide-format printers to a variety of devices for enabling multimedia, sonic art and video projects. The Macs used for video and multimedia are equipped with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Shefrin explains that the Macs are viewed at Alfred not only as tools for executing projects, but as a way of thinking through the creative process

Study Comfirms What Apple Has Known: Computers Are The Digital Hub - While Microsoft, Dell, and others have been trying to figure out how their boxes can remain relevant in the coming years, Apple already figured it out and pointed the way

Apple - Hot News - Sinch - nstead of connecting the Viditar to an amplifier, Smith plugs it directly into the FireWire port of his 800 MHz PowerBook G4 which he brings onstage with him. While the band plays, he triggers videos using buttons on the Viditar neck, which call up any of 128 individual QuickTime files per song

Laagan, Tikawali style - An Apple Macintosh computer, a digital movie camera and five young boys huddled in front. There's nothing striking about the scene, except that the boys are from a non-descript Haryana village, and they are working on what will be the third movie written, shot and edited entirely on their own.

Moviemaking capability has gone Hollywood - I've now made dozens of movies with my Macs and I have to tell you, folks, the state of moviemaking on a Mac has improved a zillionfold in 10 years. Whenever I show a movie I've created on my Mac, someone invariably asks how much it costs and how hard it is

Apple - Hot News - Coldplay - All four members of Coldplay have PowerBooks and iPods, and their sound engineers have PowerBooks as well. "There are a lot of PowerBooks lying around," says Berryman. "They're such amazing machines. Even for just watching DVDs on the plane. It's brilliant

Apple - Pro/Video - Dave Gare - Although influenced by the sheer capacity of the format, the company's move to DVD was ultimately triggered by customer requests for media choice and meaningful interaction. "For corporations, there is truly useful interactivity in DVD," says Gare. Reason enough for any business to go there and with DVD Studio Pro, easy enough to do

Macs drive town's art scene - The centre accommodates up to 50 Macs - including 29 dual-processor Power Mac G4s - and three Mac editing-suites, all using Apple's Final Cut Pro video-editing software. Four Xserves also run the building's network

Author uses iBook, ViaVoice to pen sports bio - Two years ago author Steve Moore started a writing collaboration with ABC Radio sports anchor, Johnny Holliday. The result was "Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock," a new book written entirely using an iBook and IBM's ViaVoice

Macs in Indian-telly breakthrough - Apple has published a case study looking at the positive impact of its technologies on life in India.The study concerns India's first reality TV show, Let's Join Hands (Haath Se Haath Milaa), which was edited using Apple technology, and was funded by the BBC

Apple - Pro/Photo - Pixel Perfect Africa - to put a human face on Africa, Cohen reached for technology - scores of digital cameras to capture images and batteries of Macs to process them. And on February 28, 2002, Cohen deployed a small army of nearly 100 of the world's top photojournalists across the continent for the first-ever all-digital Day in the Life shoot to capture a balanced picture of Africa - in pixels

Apple - Pro/Video - "The Rules of Attraction" - Enter Final Cut Pro and Cinema Tools, applications that smoothed the delivery of a movie that matched Writer/Director Avary's vision while meeting Producer Avary's form-fitting budget. The QuickTime-based architecture of Final Cut and Cinema Tools allowed Avary and editor Sharon Rutter to shuttle freely between film and DV while shooting and editing to achieve complex effects, including rewinds and split-screen, required by a uniquely non-linear script. These capabilities, according to Avary, "worked like lightning and saved hours a day."
And with a full editing suite in his home, on a Power Mac G4, Avary could edit any time

Building Music for the Movies  - Late at night, when no one is around, Danny Elfman flips the light on in his studio, turns to his Mac and experiments with the rhythms, propulsive beats and choral textures for his newest film score

Paul Mac-cartney - A 'secret' Paul McCartney Web site blocked to Mac users is now open, thanks to action from the man himself

Digital Killed the Video Star - Thanks to Apple, more and more people are exploring digital video, but I wasn't sure if people realized how far we've come in such a short time. The whole art form has been liberated and simplified. I recently set up a Bryce server farm in my house to render animation between three Macs and a PC. It took about 30 minutes of setup time. Six years ago, that type of computing power would have been nearly impossible without several SGI machines and $1,000,000. Apple has opened the door to new filmmakers who have no idea how lucky they are

Macs making music: A Producer's journey - David Ellefson has been a professional musician, performer, recording artist and songwriter for the last 25 years. Most notably the last 18 years have taken him to the recording studios and stages around the world as the bassist for the rock group Megadeth. As a long time Macintosh enthusiast his Macs, include desktop machines, iMacs, iBooks and PowerBooks

Apple - Creative - Bruce Hornsby: Sound Decisions - From the PowerBook generating the tones of a Wurlitzer electric piano to the PARIS Pro workstation recording the concert and the Pro Tools system mixing the audio for the DIRECTV special, the Mac was involved in every step of creating, capturing and finessing the sounds of Bruce Hornsby's appearance at Villa Montalvo

Apple - Hot News - Flogging Molly - The video was a success, getting play on "120 Minutes" and "MTV2" and pushing "Drunken Lullabies" close to the top of Billboard's Indie chart. But Marino insists that in directing this success he gave only as good as he got - from an inspired band, a battery of digital cameras, and a flexible postproduction system tucked inside a PowerBook G4

High-tech tools bring film to life - 'Charly' edited on Mac G4 laptop for just a fraction of Hollywood budget

PowerBooks, Final Cut Pro put to use in film, video - The makers of the movie "Charly" didn't need a Hollywood budget for their film; in fact, they edited the flick on their Titanium PowerBook G4, according to a Deseret News story.

Dan Gillmor: Apple stands firm against entertainment cartel - Intel's doing it. Advanced Micro Devices is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. Apple Computer isn't. What's Apple not doing? It's not -- at least so far -- moving toward an anti-customer embrace with Hollywood's movie studios and the other members of the powerful entertainment cartel

Apple - Hot News - Opera Electronica - Experience a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Paradise Lost: Opera Electronica."

Apple - Education - UCLA - As part of the internationally acclaimed program in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, tomorrow's filmmakers learn the technology tools used by today's leading edge media professionals. And as industry insiders know, those who hope to create the next Hollywood blockbuster are now preparing for their careers on Power Mac G4 systems with Final Cut Pro

Apple - Creative - Documenting the Shanghai Ghetto - "I don't think we would have been able to do this movie without these new digital tools - the DV cameras, Final Cut Pro, and our Power Mac," says producer/director Amir Mann

The Right to Tinker - Playing around with computers helped create the Apple computer. But Hollywood wants to outlaw the practice

Apple's Big Bite - Since going out on my own earlier this year, I've gained a keen appreciation for systems that are easy to set up and use in all sorts of places, such as home offices, location sites, etc. Laptop-based DV edit systems have made this easier, but still leave you longing for the missing features and better monitoring. This time around, I'm actually reviewing a combination of several products from Apple, which all happen to work ideally together for the budget-minded videographer

Macs, Maya used in NFL promo creation - Maya is the industrial-strength 3D design and animation software from Alias/Wavefront, which was updated to version 4.5 this month. AfterEffects is the tool for motion graphics and visual effects from Adobe. The software was running on four dual processor Power Macs

Apple - Hot News - The digital advantage - Many professional photographers find that digital photography gives them strong competitive advantages over film-based photographers. Here are three points of view from pro photographers who have worked both with film-based and with digital photography

Apple - Hot News - Video Spin - After the team digitally captured the 30 minutes of footage they liked best, they loaded 60 to 80 clips into the Vidvox software and assigned the clips to keys on a MIDI keyboard."We performed and recorded video directly into a PowerBook loaded with Final Cut Pro, basically bypassing tape by performing right into timeline

Tech preferences of Ad people - Apple's Power Mac G4 won as the favorite tech tool of creatives, with almost 30% of respondents voting for it. This group was particularly passionate about their tech toys.

Mac, camera, action! - Following the lead of one of Hollywood's biggest names, Ben Hammersley produces his debut film - on a laptop

Apple offers digital-video deal - Apple UK is offering Commotion and Deck free to DV editors purchasing both Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro - as well as a £200 rebate

Applications still scarce, but announcements are starting to appear - Simply put, Apple dropped the ball on MIDI and audio support in the 10.0 version of the Mac OS X operating system. The Mac, once the platform of choice for professional music and audio-editing applications, suddenly became an also-ran, with next to no support for professional audio applications. An April 10, 2001 report at MacFixIt.com described the grim details of the situation. Responding to a somewhat critical review of Mac OS X,

Apple - Hot News - Herbie Hancock - In this interview, the Grammy and Emmy-winning musician, singer, songwriter and producer explains how he caught the bug for technology, how Macs and virtual instruments have taken over his studio, how mixing in surround has enhanced the live tour experience and how he feels technology can be used to take the world to a higher level

Apple takes bow for another Emmy - Apple Computer has scooped up a second Emmy, this time for its Final Cut Pro video-editing software

Apple wins another Emmy - Apple Computer Inc. has won another Emmy Award, this time for the company's video and film editing software, Final Cut Pro. Apple will be given the award for its impact on the television industry by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the Goldenson Theatre in Hollywood

Comments: MP3s, RIAA, and Apple - Forrester Research, a market research firm, interviewed about a thousand online consumers and found out what any sane person already knows: that downloads of songs are good for the music business and help sell more pre-recorded CDs.

Salt Lake City Film Festival to feature Apple, others - Coordinators of this month's Salt Lake City Film Festival noted that the event will feature corporate and movie industry leaders, independent films, and a "FutureCinema Expo" that will feature emerging technology. Among the rosters of companies that will be participating is Apple

Mac-produced visuals seen at Area2 festival - The Area2 festival, now on tour nationwide with artists such as Moby and David Bowie, features a two-hour DVD of visuals produced on the Mac

Apple - Hot News - Summer NAMM 2002 - The bi-annual music gear convention hosts over 500 exhibitors from all over the world who come to Nashville (and Los Angeles in January for the Winter NAMM session) to show off their latest toys and trade tools - from guitars, drums, orchestral instruments and amps, to audio and MIDI hardware for computer-based recording. Apple's acquisition of Emagic was the buzz of the digital audio software section. However, people were even more interested in checking out the latest third-party hardware and software ready for Mac OS X.

Apple - Shake - Shake brings a powerful new dimension to Apple's pro film and video lineup: compositing and visual effects. And, just as Final Cut Pro has changed the way the industry edits, Shake has changed high-end post production forever by introducing an affordable software solution for film and video professionals

Macs Making Music: Pro Tools - If there is one piece of gear that reinvented multi-track music recording it is without a doubt Digidesign's Pro Tools. In fact Pro Tools did for the music recording industry what Adobe's PageMaker, Illustrator and Photoshop did for the desktop publishing industry. While there are many digital audio hardware/software products available for the Mac, Pro Tools says it all in its name; gear designed for the most discriminating music professional

Apple - Creative - Milton Greene Archives - "With the Power Mac and Photoshop 7 for Mac OS X," Greene says, "we have the ability to work with very high-resolution scans of original film negatives and transparencies. We can manipulate these large files - some more than a gigabyte - and hand-finish each image, pixel by pixel." Thanks to the Mac, Greene, head of Milton Greene Archives, recaptures, enhances, rebuilds, alters, and ultimately breathes life back into photographs that would otherwise be lost to time

MacDirectory Culture: Producing Television On A Mac - "I have an interest in emerging technology and nonlinear editing. It was a chore to get on Avid machines hereÄand I wanted to stay on top of the curve," he said while taking a break from an edit session at the station, music playing softly from his new iBook sitting beside him. He immediately recognized the potential of Apple's Final Cut Pro, bought the software and a G4 and set up shop at home. This was just before Final Cut's major debut at the NAB conference

Forward Migration Kit: Software for architects - In the architecture market Apple is three times more popular than in the general computer market with an average of 15 percent market share

Apple - K12 Education - University of Sheffield - Pitts-Tucker works as a designer at the university's student-run advertising agency by day and creates award-winning animations by night. With the help of his iBook, a Power Mac G4 system, and iMovie, Pitts-Tucker is realizing his dream of a career in animation. But even he admits that the story of his rise to fame has been ... well, almost cartoonish

Video's Third Revolution Seminar - At this informative seminar, you'll see how Final Cut Pro has evolved to become a video editing powerhouse, harnessing the processing capability of Power Mac G4 computers to deliver breakthrough enhancements--including real-time effects; built-in color correction; and a remarkable new high-capacity, high-quality offline format for unmatched mobility--that elevate it far above the competition

Apple - Hot News - The District - "Last night we did a green screen shot of a guy that was going to be composited into a shot that we were going to do that evening at a large building," says Brenton Fletcher, computer visual effects supervisor for "The District" CBS television series. "The shot was of this guy on top of the building. I had the PowerBook running After Effects on the set, so I could do a temp comp right there.

Apple - Hot News - CG Wizard of "Harry Potter" - f anyone can do it, Legato can. He's the Academy award-winning visual effects wizard who broke new ground by integrating live action with digital character animation in "Titanic," "Apollo 13," "What Lies Beneath" and "Interview with a Vampire." For "Harry Potter," Legato furthered the art form by making visual effects look more spontaneous and alive, this time with the help of a PowerBook, Power Mac and Final Cut Pro.

Apple - Solution Experts - CDI: Making Digital Assets More Accessible - Today, many design firms are transforming cabinets full of film transparencies into digital image archives that provide centralized image access and easier re-use. While digital imaging makes it more efficient to capture, manipulate, print, and archive images, it also presents several challenges.

Apple - Hot News - Macs, Lies & DV Tape - How would he make his indie hit "sex, lies & videotape," if he could make it today? Here's why, here's how.

Apple showcasing Mac OS X at IPEX 2002 - At the IPEX 2002 print-publishing trade show in Birmingham, England, Apple is pushing Mac OS X 10.1 for its performance in editorial workflows and knowledge management

Apple rep to keynote at creative conference - His presentation will be titled "Creativity + Technology = WOW!" Marra will be talking about how to enhance your creativity by integrating attention-grabbing digital multimedia such as CD, DVD, MP3

IPEX 2002: Apple 'obsessed' by publishing - Publishing on X Showing Macworld around Apple's large stand at IPEX, Ziv pointed out the "complete spectrum" of leading publishing applications that now work with Apple's modern operating system, Mac OS X.

BIAS Debuts Deck 3.5 for Mac OS X - Berkley Integrated Audio Software, Inc. (BIAS) unveiled Deck 3.5, a brand-new version of their award multi-track digital audio workstation software for the Mac. This important upgrade offers several important new features including native Mac OS X compatibility

Apple software adds finishing touches to films - Apple's interest in becoming a serious contender in the world of film editing and postproduction became more fully realized with the release of a software package beta-tested on Steven Soderbergh's upcoming movie

Apple - Hot News - Joining the Union - Now Final Cut Pro and Cinema Tools (formerly Film Logic) are changing the rules again. Their low-cost, high-end functionality has established motion picture desktop editing as a preferred alternate route for many independent filmmakers, trailer houses and studios.

Cinema Tools for Final Cut Pro - Cinema Tools for Final Cut Pro enhances Final Cut Pro 3's 24fps editing capabilities with support for film cut lists and 24-frame edit decision lists (EDLs) for high-definition (HD) video

Inside the SuperDrive - Is it a CD burner? Is it a DVD burner? Yes, it's both. With a SuperDrive-equipped Power Mac G4 or iMac, creative professionals can now write to CDs and DVDs without additional software, simply using the Finder on Mac OS X.

Forward Migration: From music producers to new converts - Get reel with iPod and Final Cut Pro looks at how Rodney Charters, director of photography for Fox's "24" and Warner Bros' "Roswell" TV series uses Macs, iMovie and Final Cut Pro in his work

Apple - Hot News - Alan Moulder - Moulder runs ProTools, Logic, Reason and Reaktor on a Power Mac in the studio, and on a PowerBook for remote editing. "The PowerBook is great for all uses and I can't think what I would do without it now," says Moulder. "I can use it on long plane journeys to mess around with sounds or sequences and I can expand on those ideas when I get to the studio."

Apple - Hot News - Orphanage Goes 3D - their names roll by in the credits of films such as Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Men in Black and Mission Impossible. In just a few years, these indie filmmakers have earned a reputation for turning out studio-quality digital films and special effects - and they do it using Power Macs and off-the-shelf software. Among the tools they use to create digital effects: Alias/Wavefront's Maya for Mac OS X - the preeminent professional application for modeling, animating and rendering 3D images

Forward Migration Kit: Woodworking software, part II - This week we're serving up part two of our roundup of woodworking software for the Mac

Apple - Hot News - Pro and Con - Moss saw something romantic but also deeply disturbing about Hogue's pathological desire to reinvent himself. In 1998, unable to shake his obsession, he began an investigation and spent three years chasing Hogue into his past, armed with Digital Betacam and Super 8 cameras and Final Cut Pro

Apple - Education - Pepperdine University - Realizing the value of their experiences and wanting to share their insights with other students, Gebhard and Marriner recently staged a second road trip. This time, the pair took along a Power Mac G4 and two iBook computers with iMovie to archive their interviews. The resulting stories are helping students around the U.S. to investigate a whole new realm of life possibilities

Av-a-go composing - Phil Wright, head of music at John Henry Newman school, Stevenage, is convinced that ICT can be harnessed as a powerful creative tool in music teaching. He runs a 12-station Apple Macintosh network with Cubase sequencer software in his music room. Although all the machines have been gathered as hand-me-downs and giveaways from parents over the past four years, this does not stop him from gaining front-edge results

Apple - Hot News - Multimedia Macbeth - Staged by the Tony-award winning Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, this Macbeth combines ancient elements of masks and ritual with a kaleidoscope of digital images ranging from satellite photos to shadow puppetry and abstract collages - all created and projected onto the stage using Macs

Apple gets a Grammy - Apple's contribution to the music and recording industry is recognised with a Grammy award

Final Cut Pro drives 'Blue Car,' 'Rules' films - "Blue Car," a feature film directed by Karen Moncrieff and accepted at the Sundance Film Festival this year, was completely edited with Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software

Apple - Hot News - Funny Business - when Paley left home, she vowed not to use computers anymore. "They made it too easy for me to avoid people," she says. "But by 1999, personal computers could finally handle the kind of graphics applications that interested me. I realized I could expand my art by going back to them." So in 1999, she bought her first personal computer, a PowerBook. Currently, she's animating and editing her current project, a 56-minute documentary called "Thank You For Not Breeding" on a Power Mac with two Apple Studio Displays

Apple - Creative - Eco-Challenge and Digital Photographers - Eco-Challenge, the world's toughest expediton race, set Mother Nature against world-class athletes who mountaineered, horseback rode, mountain biked, kayaked, scuba dived, and rope climbed their way over 300 miles of treacherous New Zealand terrain. But the 8th annual competition also put seven photographers, their Nikon cameras, and Macs to the test

Forward Migration Kit: Embroidery/stitching software - This week we're serving up part one of our roundup of embroidery/stitching software for the Mac

Apple - Education - University of Colorado/Colorado Springs - It's no coincidence that musician Adrian Johnson counts Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor as one of his prime influences. "Reznor started out just like me, doing everything on his own on his Mac, then eventually hiring live musicians," Johnson explains

Absorbing Apple's Aesthetic - Marcus Conge, who teaches 3-D design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is an unusual instructor. While most tutors get their students to design for broad product categories, like toothbrushes or refrigerators, students are rarely instructed to design for a specific company. That Conge has singled out Apple is a testament to the company's unique position in the design world

Creating Art With Macintosh - Yorgo Alexopoulos' current exhibition combines video animation, sound, sculpture, and painting that reminds us of why Macintosh is the tool of choice for most artists who use a computer

Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Author Writes Exclusively On A Mac - Micheal Chabon, from Pulitzer Prize winning novels to screenplays, is a Mac user through and through

Macs influenced 'Lord of the Rings' - The Mac still has a very palpable presence in the effects business. Weta Digital, the company responsible for the digital effects on Lord of the Rings, has some custom Mac software that does useful stuff. And this software won't run on an x86 box, either.

eMac Daily Talks to Comic Creator Jim Woodring - The comic genius of Jim Woodring is supported by his G3. "My Mac G3 is second most essential tool in my studio, right after my drawing board," said Woodring. "I simply can't imagine how I could get along without it. It gives me much more control over all aspects of my work. I use it to correct finished drawings and paintings, to create and deliver production files, to communicate with clients and colleagues and to archive my work in an economical way. It has become absolutely indispensable to me." Woodring is the creator of Frank, a mysterious, wordless comic that has taken the world by storm.

Truckville' music mixer uses Macs - Creative director Jeff Elmassian of the award-winning sound design and music company Endless Noise is a big Mac fan. Most recently, he served as music mixer and sound designer for the new Dodge Ram 1500 commercials entitled "Reflections" and "Truckville."

Manhattan Neighborhood Network uses Final Cut Pro, G4s - MNN is responsible for administering public access cable television services throughout Manhattan. The fibre-channel system -- implemented by PWR Systems, Rorke's reseller -- provided a Fibre-Channel SAN solution to help MNN cost-effectively network its Mac-based Final Cut Pro workstations, according to MNN producer, Kenyatta Cheese

Apple garners several nominations in Rave Awards - What do Apple, James Gandolfini of "The Sopranos," director Tim Burton ("Planet of the Apes"), BMW, Radiohead, and "The New York Times" have in common? All are nominees for Wired Magazine's third annual Rave Awards. Wired's Rave Awards celebrate "the people, the products and the Web sites that represent the best in technology."

Mac Sightings - Lily Tomlin Is All Mac, & Check Out The Apple Billboard - The Screen Savers took a trip to Lily Tomlin's house where she also has a production studio run by Allee Willis. Ms. Willis is a songwriter with titles such as the Beverly Hills Cop theme song and the Friends' theme song to her credit. The house and studio are all-Mac, a point which was made repeatedly. Ms. Tomlin's network is anchored by a G4, and all of the Macs in the house are running Mac OS 9, for those keeping score at home.

Power Mac G4 helps design Spider-Man's costume - For the upcoming "Spider-Man" film, conceptual artist Warren Manser used a Power Mac G4 to design Spidey's costume, according to an interview at the Spider-Man Hype Web site. The artist said he used a G4 running Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and Macromedia Freehand to accomplish his work on the project.

Mac Sightings - Orange iBook Assists In Production Of The Lord Of The Rings - Thought I'd let you know that they're apparently using Mac's to do, well, something in New Line Cinema's upcoming Lord of the Rings-trilogy. In a picture at E! Online's Web site, there's a clearly visible tangerine iBook.

Mac Sightings - Planet Of The Apes Apes Designed With A Mac - At one point, the designer was talking about how his team had designed the ape makeup and started stepping us through the layers of one of the female characters on, now wait for it, a Mac. This Mac was booted into Classic for those keeping score at home.

Much of upcoming science fiction film done on Macs - 'Radius,' a science-fiction film made especially for the Internet is due this summer. And the Mac helped make it possible.

Access praises Macs ease in video editing - When Access Magazine, "America's Guide to the Internet," focused on "Desktop Movie-Making" they had some very nice things to say about Apple and its products.

"iTools definitely helped me find a new spot on the radio when my old gig fell through,' says Big Rick Stuart, a legendary modern-rock DJ

Elyse Couvillion's acclaimed four-minute short, "Sweet,' communicates without words the story of two soulmates, transcribed through imagery, motion and color - "I pre-visualized the film using Final Cut Pro on my Power Mac G4 at home to edit the storyboard animatic,' says Couvillion.

Visual Music -Both Composer and Videodelic are Mac-only applications, made possible by the creative blessing of the G4 processor. "The G4 Velocity Engine made live, real-time video manipulation in Onadime a reality,' credits Bruce Mitchell, Onadime CEO.

What's Mac Got To Do With It - The Apple Creative markets team went backstage to find out how Macs drive one of the most exciting stage shows in the biz today.

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