Creative Arsenal

Jude Law - As the tables slowly begin to turn in Hollywood from all celluloid to all digital, the directors who pioneer the technology of Apple Computer will need versatile actors like Law to deliver their works.

Apple names design, science winners - Apple has posted details of the winners of its Annual Apple Design Awards and its Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics.The design awards, now in its ninth year, recognize "technical excellence and outstanding achievement" on Mac OS X

Guerilla filmmaker's work shows the power of the Mac - If you really want to appreciate the power of the Mac – and get great advice about what you can accomplish with Apple hardware and software – talk to Helmut Kobler of K2 Films. He created a science-fiction action movie mostly on his Mac. From the editing to the visual effects to the sound/music, most of Radius was done with his PowerBook. Yep, a PowerBook, not a Power Mac G5

Apple "Silhouette" ads win Cannes 'Media Lion' award - Apple's "Silhouette" advertising campaign for iPod haswon a "Media Lion" award at the 51st annual Cannes Lions Festival. Apple UK says the event "celebrates the best in international advertising, marketing and creativity

New Sci-Fi Short Film Made With A Mac - K2 Films has released a new sci-fi action movie on DVD that was created using various Apple products. The short film is called Radius, and was created using a variety of Apple applications and hardware including DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut Pro. The 2-disc DVD contains not only the feature itself, but a Mac aimed tutorial on how to make films from the guerilla school of though

How GarageBand Made Me Feel Young and Hip - Figuring that if Jeff could hook me into using GarageBand, he'd be able to do it for anyone, I asked him to draft a few pages that would help me create a decent-sounding tune. Jeff wrote the draft, I followed the directions, and, amazingly enough, I was able to combine several loops in interesting ways that sounded (at least to my ear) like a real song. Feeling ever so slightly cool, I gave Jeff a contract, connected him with one of our editors who has more musical experience than I

CDIA's Bob Daniels on Digital Imaging Trends - "Apple addresses the needs of creative professionals in a way that other companies just don't. Part of this is because they're so involved in creating the software as well as the hardware. That makes it hard for them to point a finger at a third party if anything goes wrong," CDIA executive director Bob Daniels told MacNewsWorld in an exclusive interview

Drum Machines on Your Mac: Not for Drummers Only - if you want to record drum tracks from scratch, your choices are as follows:Record real drums one track at a time, which is both difficult and tedious. Record Software Instrument drums using a MIDI controller (or GarageBand's onscreen keyboard), which is also difficult and tedious

Indie music riding the digital surge - Independent labels and artists are beginning to play an increasingly visible role in download services such as Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store, where bragging rights to the largest collections of tracks--including obscure independent songs--are a critical selling point

Final Cut Express 2.0 - Mid-level video editing software can hone intermediate users' skills with a manageable learning curve

Mac Design conference draws record numbers - The Mac Design Conference & Expo, hosted in Chicago earlier this month, experienced a record number of attendees, according to the show's organizers.

Best of the NAB Conference - This was one of the best NABs I have attended in a lon time! There were so many exciting products makin debuts, high-definition alternatives, and more efficient an cost-effective workflows. In my mind, two of th applications offered were extreme standouts: Apple Motio and Serious Magic DV Rac

QuickTime Rapidly Gaining Market Share - Then everything started to change. Apple released QuickTime 6 and the iPod. Fast forward to 2004, and QuickTime is back in the race. According to this Internet News article, thanks to the iPod and iTunes, the latter of which depends on QuickTime, QuickTime use is sharply rising.Current market share percentages are as follows: RealPlayer has some 24.9%, QuickTime has 36.8%, and Windows Media Player has 38.2%.

US filmmaker zooms in on outsourcing - At present, he is entering the final stage of editing the 75-minute on Apple Powerbook, adding music and graphics. Next week, he heads to Washington, D.C., for a final round of interviews with members of Congress, hoping to learn about various legislative proposals that are in circulation.Spotts has invested over $40,000 into the documentary, a first for him

Apple's Motion, Xsan Were Two Most Popular Products At NAB - Three Apple products made the list of the top ten most popular products shown at April's NAB 2004 (National Association of Broadcasters) according to a recently released survey of attendess. Motion, Apple's new compositing solution, and Xsan, Apple's new SAN (Storage Area Network) technology, were listed as numbers 1 and 2 in the survey, which was conducted byWeinstock Media Analysis. GarageBand gave Apple the hat trick, coming in at #10 on the li

Paramount's Welton Gite on the Mac Studio Mix - Although Macs are in the minority at Paramount, Gite is vocal about letting people know why he prefers to work with them. In an interview with MacNewsWorld, he sings the praises of the platform, the technology and other things Apple

Architects Respond Favorably to Apple's New Power Mac G5 Lineup - Apple's announcement of all new dual processor Power Mac G5 workstations have really gotten many architects excited about their technology again. At the center of this excitement is a convergence of interests and patterns of change in the architectural industry that fit well with Apple's new Power Macs. The profession as a whole is seriously entering into its second great technology transformation with the growing adoption of BIM (building information modeling) overCADD (computer-aided drafting and design)

Channel 5 says 'go Mac' for video - Presenters Adrian Simpson and Suzi Perry were shown filming The Matrix on a budget using a range of camcorders. Perry was shown editing the results on a 17-inch PowerBook G4, and used iDVD to make a DVD of the results. These results appeared impressive on the TV

DVD Studio Pro 3: Professional DVD Production Made Easy - With DVD Studio Pro 3, professional DVD publishing just got more professional, more fun, and especially more tuned to the high end. DVD Studio Pro 3 inherited the interface as its predecessor, but a number of new features have been added that make the product more aimed at the high(est) end than it was before. There is one major shortcoming to DVD Studio Pro: you cannot run it on Windows

Computerworld Honors Finalists - • Apple Computer Inc. -- A digital music jukebox provides Windows and Macintosh users with a fully integrated music store.

DVD Studio Pro 2 - With the arrival of such applications as Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, desktop video has since progressed to the point that projects ranging from television series to feature films are now being produced entirely on the Mac

American Film Institute and the Mac: Happy Bedfellows - With its emphasis on hands-on learning, AFI can't waste time on bad technology, so according to the school, there's no question what the preferred OS is. Here, it's Mac all the way.

UK iMovie fest changes lives - Making heavy use of Apple technology, the second-ever Campus MovieFest in Scotland ended at St Andrews University with a black tie ball May 10. Campus MovieFest saw 1,000 students and staff from the University get together in 80 teams to make a movie in one week using Apple iBook G4s, iMovie, GarageBand and Canon digital video cameras

A Few Zeroes Difference - A Hollywood feature film and a DV documentary are at opposite ends of the budget spectrum, but were edited with the same software

Final Cut Pro Has Changed Our Lives” - The programme’s producer / director, John Thornicroft, along with his partner and the programme’s offline editor, Susan Spivey, have created a post-production facility in their rural home, based around Apple’s Final Cut Pro video editing software.

Just a Thought: iMovie Film Wows The Crowd At Sundance Film Festival - iMovie is great for telling the digital equivalent of a short story, but what if your story needed more than a few minutes of camera action and some nice background music? What if your story was fundamentally important to you, would you trust it to iMovie? Not only did Jonathan Caouette trust iMovie to tell the story of his life, but the resulting movie is a hit at the 2004 Sundance film festival

Apple - Post-Production Roadshow - See the future of High Definition video production become reality today. Plan to attend Apple’s Post NAB Roadshow “Moving Post-Production Forward” and watch the new digital media future unfold before your eyes

iMovie edits Cannes hit; OS X disk fragmentation; MPEG codec - Tarnation, the surprise hit of the Cannes Film Festival, was edited entirely in Apple's 'consumer' video package, iMovie

Apple launches Keynote Design Contest, winner to get 23-inch Cinema Display - "Create a killer presentation expressing your favorite passion, using Keynote - Apple’s innovative presentation tool. You could win a 23-inch HD Cinema Display or up to $1,000 from the iTunes Music Store," Apple.com states.

The One About The Lord of the Rings Almost Being Stolen On An iPod - LaurieF is one of our New Zealand forum members, and his eagle eyes spotted a very interesting story from a New Zealand magazine, STUFF. According to STUFF, there was once a time when "pre-release sequences" of The Lord of the Rings (the magazine doesn't specify which of the three LoTR films was involved) was in danger of being lost to thieves when it was being transported to England on an iPod

After Effects On The Mac: Adobe Weighs In - Just in case you've been vacationing in a cave for the last few weeks, Apple's recent introduction of Motion was one of the splashier news items to come out of NAB. Since then, many have pontificated (myself included) about what Motion's arrival could signal for the Macintosh motion graphics/compositing space in general and Adobe's plans for After Effects on the Mac in particular. To help clear things up, Steve Kilisky, Adobe's Product Manager for After Effects, sat down with us recently to respond to a few burning questions

Apple's Motion wins 2004 Editors' Choice Award at NAB - Apple's Motion won a 2004 Editors' Choice Award at NAB. Motion, Apple's newly introduced motion graphics package with real-time previews, procedural behavior animation and Final Cut Pro HD integration, won in the Content Creation category, while Fast Forward Video's Covert DVR won in the Content Management grouping

Flour Power Wins Fans for “Hippy Gourmet” - There, in a tiny third floor studio, Ehrlich edits the entire show on Apple hardware and software. It’s a technology platform he says is ideally suited for high-quality, low-cost TV production — and one that jelled just as Ehrlich was cooking up early pilots for “The Hippy Gourmet.”

GarageBand or SoundTrack? - The first time I saw SoundTrack I was memorized! It was my first visit to an Apple Store and I had lots of cool eye candy to deal with. What drew my attention? A little music program bundled with FCP. I started to play with it at the store and before I knew it, two hours had passed. Drag and drop music creation with over 4000 sound loops of every shape, size, and genre. Easy to use and best of all, fun.

Electronics Design Chain Magazine: Inside the Apple iPod Design Triumph - Although no one could accuse Apple, let alone Jobs, of being shy about product promotion, it's a different story when it comes to its engineering and building processes. The company has always been tighter lipped than the Pentagon when it comes to releasing design chain details.But that hasn't prevented some companies from satisfying their curiosity about what's inside the advanced MP3 player. Some serious reverse engineering and discussion within the electronics industry unearthed unusual details of Apple's development process

Interview Kerry Livgren - I use Kurzweils, Korg keyboards, a Korg Triton, 2 Korg Trinity’s and I use a number of other samplers and midi modules. All the keyboards are controlled by a Mac G4 running Digital Performer

Roundup: Mac Rules at NAB - this was my fifth NAB convention, and every year I've seen the Mac platform expand more and more to a position of prominence at this show. (The Mac platform has held about a 50 percent market share in creative production for several years now.) But what I've never seen is the Mac taking on such a dominant position at this event. You might say it's become something of a Macworld Las Vegas, except that would be an understatement.

Apple wins six National Association of Broadcasters 'Best of Show' awards - Apple's Motion and xSAN each picked up a "Vidy Award Best of Show 2004." Apple's Motion and Apple's/Panasonic's 100 Mbps DV-HD over FireWire each won the" Government Video Salute 2004" award

Digital Hub Give iMovie New Powers - Apple's iMovie 4 includes dozens of visual effects,scene transitions, and title formats. Used tastefully and sparingly, these extras add finesse to a movie and lend a professional touch. But some projects require something a little more creative than what iMovie's built-in tools can provide.That's where iMovie plug-ins come in

  Mini-Editorial: How Apple Stole SGI's Hollywood Business - Last Sunday Apple released a number of a new multimedia software -- Shake 3.5, Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro 3 and a new application, titled Motion. Apple starts making a big name in Hollywood and many creative studios are now opting for Apple's products to do the main editing. Once upon a time, all this market belonged to SGI. In less than 2 years, Apple has managed to overturn this market into its advantage

Apple takes bigger bite of video editing - Apple has unveiled a series of applications and tools for digital video editing, aimed at taking on Adobe and making video editing available to a bigger market.The vendor has released its Final Cut Pro editing suite, Motion special effects tool, Xsan storage area network file system and Shake special effects suite.

Matsushita, Apple Develop Video Editing System - Japanese electronics giant Matsushita Electric and Apple Computerplan to market a digital video editing system that would simplify and lower the costs for TV stations and production companies in creating TV broadcasts, movies and DVDs

Apple Furthers Enterprise Plans with SAN - As part of its renewed efforts to focus on high-end content production, Apple Computer Inc. Sunday used the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas to announce its first foray into the storage area networking market

Shake - The choice of Oscar-winning effects artists seven years in a row is now optimized for the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X at all resolutions

Motion - Introducing Motion, the only motion graphics package with real-time previews, procedural behavior animation and Final Cut Pro HD integration

DVD Studio Pro - The world’s most comprehensive and flexible DVD authoring package has slick new transitions, superb HD to MPEG-2 encoding, Graphical View, support for all professional audio formats — including DTS — and integration with Final Cut Pro HD and Motion

Final Cut Pro HD - Finally, the beauty of HD with the simplicity of DV. Capture DVCPRO HD over FireWire, edit using camera-native footage and output over FireWire with no generational quality loss. RT Extreme, now for HD, can deliver multiple HD streams, effects, filters and transitions in real-time to an attached Apple Cinema Display

In the movie industry, even the writers use Macs - "To work on something [other than a Mac] would be to marry a woman you don't love," Terry Rossio told MacCentral. He and writing partner Ted Elliott can count "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Aladdin," "Men in Black," "Shrek" (which earned them an Academy Award nomination) and several other big-budget films among their credits. Both can also say they've worked on Macs their entire careers

Designer grew firm from Apple's roots - Haven and his firm - Fremont-based Acorn Product Development - went on to make a name for themselves designing eye-catching products in translucent casing. One of the firm's biggest clients is design-conscious Apple Computer Inc., which hired Haven and his team to do design work on the company's popular iMacs, as well as its higher-end G-3 and G-4 towers

Band practice leaves the garage - Bernstein's assessment of his ability may be modest, but his enthusiasm over GarageBand is contagious. Since its release in January, this computer program, which allows even the most musically challenged person to construct a tune through simple software, has received rave reviews.

A Favorite iMovie Cheat - Suppose you've got a video clip that runs a bit shorter than the narration that accompanies it. You can't allow the clip to fade to black while you're nattering on about what the clip displays, so you must find a way to extend the clip. My solution for doing so is to add a still clip.

How To Improve GarageBand's Performance On Your Mac - If you've been playing with GarageBand lately, (and I don't know many Mac users who haven't been playing with it), you have no doubt encountered one of the most irritating dialog boxes ever created

Final Cut Express 2 - I’ve been using Final Cut Pro for over five years now.  If you have read my previous reviews of this software or have used my Final Cut Pro Quick Tips, you know I love this application.  So when Apple released Final Cut Express 2, you can probably guess I was pretty hyped up about it.  After all, not everyone can afford (or needs) a $1000 Pro system – right?  After using it for a couple of projects am I still sold on Final Cut Express 2 as a viable option for DV editors? 

Electro-Acoustic Festival Offers a Fresh Music Mix - Utilizing UCSD computer guru Miller Puckette’s Max/MSP, a powerful object-oriented programming language, Waters has created a computer program for his Powerbook that turns the laptop into a musical instrument. “I got tired of lugging my DJ rig all over the world, and my goal of turning my G4 laptop into a virtual turntable led me willy-nilly down the path of the developers of video games,” said Waters.  “I want to create electronic musical works that many people will want to play.”

iSight To See At The 13th Annual Florida Film Festival - Those attending the 13th annual Florida Film Festival in Winter Park, Florida (a community just east of Orlando) had a surprise, according to a report on MusicVideoWire.com, when Apple's iSight and iChat AV was used for a live interview with music video director Brett Simon during an intermission

Apple - Hot News - Kicking off Academy Awards - to convince themselves that the illusions were working, the Dakota crew used PowerBooks and aPower Mac G5 editing station running Final Cut Pro to create and view the shots on the fly, on set, as the footage was captured

Garageband: Changing the Way Music Is Made - Garageband is rapidly becoming the latest high-tech living room craze -- mostly because it makes it easy for even the most musically challenged among us to make tunes that sound like real music

Using VST instruments in Garage Band - In this article, Jacean describes how to use Cubase VST (Virtual Studio Technology) software synthesizers with GarageBand through a great software tool called the FXpansion VST to AudioUnit Adapter

Technology lets garage studios challenge Hollywood - Blamire hired a small professional crew to shoot the film with a digital camera and used a professional studio to edit it on Apple's Final Cut Pr

Lights! Camera! Mouse! - An Oscar-inspired Nigel Whitfield makes movies on a Mac - If you haven’t splashed out on a home computer yet, though, forget Windows and buy an Apple Macintosh. The Mac is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for both home users and professionals. The epic Cold Mountain was edited on a Mac, and directors from Steven Soderbergh to the Coen brothers have used Macs to get their movies from camera to screen

Apple's Shake 'wins' Oscar - Apple has announced that its Shake compositing software played a critical role in helping The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King win an Oscar in the "Best Visual Effects" category

British Pathe archives encoded into QuickTime - Apple UK has published an article about the British Pathe archive , which contains over 3,500 hours of historical footage that is presently being encoded into QuickTime, and will soon be available on the Web.

Designing a Virtual World - Rhodes chose Bryce on the Mac because she could create virtual domains using fractals rather than photographic textures. “Photos are resolution dependent,” she explains, “and many 3D programs map photographs onto textures and wrap them around 3D objects — something like the way matte paintings might be used for film backdrops

Invasion Of Sound - Now that computers and recording software are household items - Apple Computer's new operating system comes with a program called GarageBand - recording at home has become routine for musicians

Apple Has 80% Of South Africa's Graphics Market - AllAfrican.com has an interesting report on Apple's efforts to gain market share in South Africa. The media outlet says while Apple's market share in the struggling economy of South Africa is at 2%, the company owns some 80% of the graphic design industry

Sex, Macs & Prada To Go - In the show, I have always noticed that when you write your column, you use a Macintosh computer. Yes, no cell phones and Mac fits into her ideas of compromising with the modern world and still feeling like it is a typewriter

Using Native Instruments Software Synths with Apple GarageBand - Many users have wondered how it might be possible to add professional-quality software synthesizers to their Apple GarageBand repetoire, and this tutorial provides the answer.

Fatboy Slim goes GarageBand - GarageBand continues to inspire music-sample producers to deliver new and better loops for iLife musicians, with AMG releasing samples in Apple Loops format from Fatboy Slim and Erasure's Vince Clarke

Bitshift Audio offers 40 MB of Free Apple Loops for GarageBand - Bitshift Audio offers a collection of free electro/breakbeat drum and synth loops

GarageBand hits the right note for making music - having used iLife '04 for a couple of weeks now, I can state with arrogant authority that GarageBand is Tetris for songmaking. It's addictive and compelling

iLife delivers the goods: Macs attack fun, entertainment with ease - When it comes to having fun with a personal computer, the newest Macs rule the desktop-and the laptop. Call it the facts of iLife

Plug In, Turn On, Tune Up - GarageBand, Apple's new home recording studio software, transforms the Mac into a musical instrument that anyone can play

The Mac Is My Instrument - Garfinkle tested a slew of sequencers, virtual synthesizers and samplers before settling on the combination of Logic 6.3.2, Reason, the EXS 24 Sampler, Waves plug-ins and the Vienna Symphonic Library, all running on his dual 1GHz Power Mac G4 in Mac OS X. He converted all his samples and performance instruments to the EXS 24 format, then recreated his 110-track orchestral template, designed to access multiple racks of hardware synthesizers and samplers, as a single Logic template on the G4

Multimedia software iDVD 4 - iDVD is the application that packages the content from iMovie, iPhoto and potentially even GarageBand, and puts on a disc that can played on millions of DVD players and DVD-ROM drives. Version 4 adds some important and impressive new features

iMovie 4 - iMovie 4 is a worthwhile, if not hugely significant, upgrade. It certainly isn't as groundbreaking as the upgrade to iMovie 3. Nonetheless, it's good to see the introduction, though limited, of non-destructive editing. The destructive nature of iMovie's editing process has always been its Achilles heel. iMovie continues to be an excellent application for the occasional video editor

GarageBand - GarageBand isn't perfect; it has hefty system requirements. The recommended minimum speed Mac is a 600MHz G3, but a fast G4 is definitely preferable. We used a 1GHz PowerBook G4 with 256Mb RAM, and GarageBand, or rather Mac OS X's Core Audio, had trouble playing more than eight or ten tracks at a time. This should be fixed with more RAM, but don't expect to do much with the software if your Mac isn't up to spec

In Depth: Apple GarageBand Jam Pack - One of the most frequently asked questions by current or prospective GarageBand users is whether the add-on collection of loops, software instruments and effects called Jam Pack is worth the $99 asking price. In this article, we take the most in-depth look ever at the Jam Pack add-on, with an extensive listing of the included files, as well as analysis of what's included and whether it will be worth the selling price for you

GarageBand - The latest addition to the family is Logic and Soundtrack's baby brother: GarageBand . The third child is usually a bit of a black sheep: they are photographed less often and always wear hand-me-downs. They are cute but people do not take them seriously. GarageBand is kind of like that

Tampa Bay’s Digital Cover Man - Leveraging everything he had learned from taking the USF lab digital, Wagner hit the ground running at One Buccaneer Place. Neatly side-stepping a dead Nikon film scanner — an artifact from the Bucs’ first tentative foray into digital — he quickly spec’d and aggregated a simple digital difference engine that included Nikon digital cameras, a Power Macintosh G4 and PowerBook G4, an external CD burner and a working scanner

Review of GarageBand - The Killer App of the decade? - You can't buy Garage Band by itself.  it is part of the iLife '04 bundle that comes free on new Macs (or will shortly) and is a mere 50 bucks for those who are already registered Apple users.  This is a no-brainer if you own a Mac.  It is almost impossible for me to think of a reason not to get it, aside from poverty

NBC News Channel - Garageband

Garage daze - Apple sells a software add-on package called Jam Pack that, although it has more than 2000 loops, guitar and drum effects, also lacks the more mellifluous stuff. It would be nice if they extended the range a bit, even at the risk of taking the music out of the garage

MIKE WENDLAND: Apple program can turn anyone into a musician - What Microsoft Office is to productivity programs like word processing and spreadsheets, iLife is for the fun things we do with our computers, like managing and tweaking digital pictures, video editing and DVD burning. Those other applications are great. GarageBand, though, is simply awesome

Apple shrinks the old garage - Though GarageBand contains many of the advanced features that can be found in semiprofessional programs such as Cakewalk Home Studio and Sony Acid, it hides the complexity, allowing you to manipulate music more like you change fonts, boldness and italics in a document. In other words, GarageBand isn't the first computer program that lets you compose music and remix existing songs -- but it might break new ground in how simple it makes the proces

Apple, Autodesk and Mac OS X - The Architosh Autocad on Mac OS X Detail Survey petition is still open to those who wish to take it, however your data will not be included in the report. We continue to collect data from those with an interest in seeing Autodesk's Autocad run natively on Mac OS X. (You can take it here .)

Buffett’s having fun Young fans are joining his older Parrotheads - "WE HAD always been planning to record concert albums, but were looking for the best way to do it," said Buffett, a self-confessed fan of ITunes. "I like the whole concept, and told Steve Jobs about what we wanted to do on tour. " With our Margaritaville radio station, we have lots of ways to make it work commercially." So Buffett collected the necessary recording gear and Apple sent him a couple of their top-end G5s computer processors. He and the band were shocked at the results

John Mayer - Mayer mocked up the look he wanted (including Macintosh Titanium—inspired aluminum inlay on the bridge and peghead) by editing a photo of an OM-28 he downloaded from the Martin website

GarageBand addiction growing - I have to stop this. I am absolutely addicted to GarageBand , the new music composition addition to Apple's iLife .I have no musical training and can't even carry a tune. But it seems like every free moment I have since installing iLife, I find myself twiddling with GarageBand -adding hip hop kits here, rock kits there. Wow! Doesn't a cymbal set that off perfectly? And... cool... listen to what a fingerstyle electric bass does

Moby speaks out about iTunes and copy protection - "if i release a cd and it has copy-protection on it, it's not by my choice. copy-protection annoys the s--- out of me, cos it prevents me from putting my own cd's into i-tunes. just thought i'd let you know. moby"

Here's the Price of Fame: $218.32  - It's not the typical method of digitizing photos, but editing a feature on iMovie is unusual, too. Caouette was just doing what he could with the tools he had on hand. " People told me, 'Why don't you throw iMovie away and graduate to Final Cut Pro?' But iMovie is so easy," Caouette said. "I didn't know any editors, didn't know anyone in the film industry. Everything that has happened with this film has been an explosion, and happened so quickly."

Apple Clarifies Logic at NAMM - At last week's NAMM show in Anaheim, CA, Apple Computer announced a repackaging of its Logic professional audio applications to follow a two-tiered approach, just like Apple's Final Cut video editing products. At the high end, the $1,000 Logic Pro 6 is a rebundling of Logic Platinum 6, plus software instruments and audio-processing plug-ins which were previously sold separately. Meanwhile, the $300 Logic Express 6 targets students, educators, and the semi-pro/serious amateur market by offering a smaller (though not inconsiderable) collection of professional quality tools

FEATURE-Beat goes on for musical instrument makers - Hopes are running high among the makers of instruments and accessories that Apple, with its recently introduced "GarageBand" program, can have the same energizing effect on their market that the computer maker's iTunes digital music store has had for recorded music

Apple 'will inspire new musicians' - It's not just Mac fans that are excited by new iLife application, GarageBand – musical instrument makers are also excited by the release

John McLaughlin - Currently touring with his Remember Shakti band, legendary guitarist John McLaughlin appears on stage accompanied by a 17-inch PowerBook . He uses Logic , Logic plug-ins and a MOTU 828 as preamp, equalization and effects processing for his guitar. He also uses a guitar-MIDI converter and plays synthesizer parts from his guitar using the Mac and Logic instruments

GarageBand: What needs improvement... - OK people, the day has come and we have had our chances to start playing with GarageBand! What are some of the issues that you have had, or things that you would like to see improved in this already great program

GarageBand simplifies process of making music - I spent the past weekend testing out GarageBand, enough to make a blurry-eyed declaration that this is a powerful tool someone with no studio recording experience can figure out in a couple of hours. Though GarageBand contains many of the advanced features that can be found in semi-professional programs such as Cakewalk Home Studio and Sony Acid, it hides the complexity, allowing you to manipulate music more like you change fonts, boldness and italics in a document

Apple Plans For A Musical Year - Apple's movie editing software, iMovie, has been rewritten to be more responsive and to render more quickly. Users also can import video directly from the company's Firewire iSight video camera, automatically trim video and sound at the same time, create a DVD project using iDVD--the DVD creation program from Apple--and share movies by publishing them to a Web site, sending an e-mail message or a Bluetooth-compatible device such as a 3G mobile phone

NAMM: Apple previews Sculpture, UltraBeat, Guitar Amp - At this week's NAMM 2004 conference in Anaheim, Calif., Apple is showing off new technology that it says it will incorporate into future versions of Logic, the company's pro audio production software. New technologies dubbed Sculpture and UltraBeat are being showcased, along with Guitar Amp. The company also noted that Logic Pro will gain connectivity to GarageBand in future versions

Apple Streamlines Professional Audio Product Line - Used by over 200,000 musicians worldwide, Logic is the industry-leading audio production software for professional musicians, audio engineers, producers and film composers. Logic Pro 6 consolidates 12 pre-existing, groundbreaking products into one comprehensive package

Booming baritone has his audiences swooning, but what sets his heart singing madly is . . . his Macintosh computer - Despite all these credentials, there's one thing that would complete Hampson's dreams. He wants to meet Steve Jobs. That's right. The Steve Jobs of Apple Computer fame. Hampson confesses: He is a computer geek

Apple to exhibit at NAMM 2004 music event - Not surprisingly, Apple will be an exhibitor at NAMM 2004 , the world's largest trade-only music products show

First Impressions of GarageBand - While the iPod Minis are certainly the most controversial announcement of the keynote, to many of us, GararageBand is by far the most exciting. I spent a few minutes with an Apple rep in their towering booth playing with the new software. Its really is quite easy to create a decent sounding track from a series of loops

Magic Look of 'Pan' Has Cameraman Flying High - Using a Canon EOS-1Ds digital still camera, an Apple G4 laptop, an Apple Cinema Display and a combination of iPhoto and Adobe Photoshop, he was able to patent a look for the film on location that was adhered to "for a good 90% of the film" and which ultimately served as a road map for ILM visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar

iParty with iPods - As DJ Andrew Andrew they cue up a weekly iPod programming party at APT, an upscale lounge in NYC's Meat Packing District where revelers pull a number from a deli-style dispenser and wait to play a seven-minute set, fading between two 5GB iPods (they've expanded Beck's play-list) patched into a two-channel mixer. In front, a large digital clock ticks off the remaining seconds as if the whole set-up were a time bomb

Apple May Host Online Film Festival In Near Future - it would appear that Apple may be planning an online film festival sometime in the future. According to a press release from eMediaWire, Marc Anthony Massimei will be showing a film called Purgatory , and this is where it gets interesting. The press release says that Purgatory was "produced for Apple Computer's pilot run of the online film festival."

Music & MIDI In Panther - khan writes "Peter Kirn at MacMusic.org has written an article about the state of music on the Mac . In part, he writes, "The good news is, for the many users who have made the leap to Jaguar and have enjoyed this operating system's superior stability and MIDI/audio compatibility thanks to Core MIDI and Core Audio, 10.3 Panther is another step forward." I wonder how many professional musicians have made the jump to OS X, and how much Panther has or will increase that number. For those who still live in the land of OS 9, what's keeping you there?

OS X 10.3 Panther: A Step Forward for Audio - Audio and MIDI functionality was one of the last areas of Mac OS X to fully develop: basic functionality was not available until OS X 10.1, and only with the debut of Jaguar 10.2 last summer was OS X truly ready for music and audio. The good news is, for the many users who have made the leap to Jaguar and have enjoyed this operating system's superior stability and MIDI/audio compatibility thanks to Core MIDI and Core Audio, 10.3 Panther is another step forward

Mac User-Created Movie Explores Colored Flat-Panel iMacs - Who is George Masters? Aside from being one of the newest members of the TMO forums, he's someone who makes animated movies. Mr. Masters pointed us to a new "iMac commercial" he has made to explore the idea of colored flat-panel iMacs, and we think it's very cool

The Incredible Shrinking Studio  - In another sign of the increased prominence of laptops in the recording process, as of this fall, new students at the Berklee College of Music have to buy a PowerBook, a MIDI keyboard controller and a copy of Reason , a popular software synthesis and sampling program. For years, music students were expected to learn to play the piano as the main instrument for their education. But according to Professor Michael Bierylo of Berklee, those days are over. "People are turning to the computer as the way of learning music," said Bierylo. "That represents a very radical shift in music education."

NBC's Scrubs adopts an all Apple solution - Scrubs has been on the air for two seasons, with the premiere of the third season set for tonight. The editors of Scrubs have used Mac hardware for the first two seasons, but opted for Avid software instead of using Apple products. Late last season the editors decided to give Final Cut Pro a try and are now using all Apple hardware and software for the production of the television show

William Gibson is a man with a vivid imagination - William Gibson is a man with a vivid imagination. Best known as a megalithic science-fiction author, he is also a cultural commentator, some-time prophet, part-time critic, and most certainly opinionated observer of the human condition. Gibson recently spoke with MacDirectory about writing, the future, human evolution, and Apple

Apple to join Digital Architecture Tour - If you are an architect, 3D modeling or CAD professional, join us at the Hellenic Centre in London on October 31st and find out how you can improve your design workflow by embracing the very latest tools and technologies

Aphex Twin > Warping Digital Music - The beginning of the 21st century is full of digital music breakthroughs and leading the movement is one united kingdom native who pushes the Mac platform to its limits

Apple Seminar Series - Apple Future of Video Production

Apple - Education - University of Washington, A Video Journey of Nations - When Scott Macklin left to shoot his documentary video, he had $12 and one credit card in his pocket. In his backpack were a few essentials: a digital camcorder, a Super 8 camera, and his PowerBook G4. During a ferry crossing, the credit card was lost. Eight-foot ocean swells also threatened to capsize the support boat in which Macklin was visiting Native American tribes and their villages. But thanks to Final Cut Pro, he was able to capture a ceremonial journey that few non-Native Americans will ever see. He even came home with his $12.

Apple to exhibit at GVExpo, DigitalMediaDC shows - The GV Expo provides hands on demonstrations of the latest professional video, audio and multimedia products and services. The show is exclusively for government video professionals who work in video production, multimedia, distance education, audio-for-video, security and surveillance, DTV/high definition, videoconferencing, law enforcement, presentation, streaming video and asset management.

Apple - Pro/Video - Mark Romanek - When Mark Romanek came to London to do publicity for his first film, “Static,” he got the chance to meet several of the musicians whose music had been featured in the cult hit. One of the artists, Matt Johnson of The The, asked him to do a music video and this prompting set Romanek in a whole new direction.

Apple - Pro/Video - Brian Purdy - The films, which average 40 minutes in length, are all edited using Final Cut Pro on a dual-processor Power Mac G4 with 2GB of RAM, a 120GB internal hard drive and an additional external hard drive.
“ My friend, John Oliver of Bliss Productions — who is also an insanely talented editor — introduced me to the benefits of the Mac and Final Cut Pro and steered me away from the hassles of working with PCs

Apple - Pro/Photo - John Jones - Today, as chief image technologist in the Smithsonian Office of Imaging and Photographic Services, Jones assists in the preservation of more than two million pieces of photographic film, glass plates and digital images for the three main museums at the Smithsonian: the Air and Space Museum, Museum of Natural History and Museum of American History. All with Macs, Mac OS X, Xserve and Xserve RAID

Apple - Pro/Video - John LaCroix - For those who don’t speak skateboarding, John LaCroix has the creative style to nail a fast, dangerous trick (in his case, making DVDs) and instantly gear up for the next. That’s the goal and the prize in this thrill-chasing world: keep pushing, but with the seeming ease of those who shrug off monikers like athlete and extreme sports

Apple - Pro/Video - Harris and Dougherty - For screenwriters Dan Harris and Mike Dougherty, writing a successful sequel to the inordinately successful July 2000 film “X-men” ($300 million worldwide gross) was frequently less about mutations than permutations. “There were 26 official studio drafts,” says Harris, “and several hundred between us and director Bryan Singer.”

Apple posts tribute to Gregory Hines - Apple Computer, Inc. has posted a tribute to the life of Gregory Hines (1946-2003). Hines was an active Mac user and participated in several notable Apple events, including Macworld and AppleMasters technology showcases

Apple - Pro/Photo - Peter Turnley - Turnley brought in an expert. “I actually hired one of the most knowledgeable people in the digital photographic world, Rob Galbraith, to give me a week of intensive lessons using a digital camera and archiving my work on my PowerBook G4. It was really one of the best investments I ever made,” says Turnley

Matthias Mencke Designing a Brand - Like most of Interbrand’s creative staff, Mencke uses a Power Mac connected to the corporate network that relies on Xserve for file-sharing in the mixed Mac/PC environment (see sidebar). “We use the servers,” he says, “to collaborate with different designers, archive our projects and retrieve them quickly when we need to look at them. We have a lot of different projects on the server for my work with Deloitte Consulting. I must be able to retrieve those files the moment I need them.”

Chris Sims Speaking With Images - “ People said, if you want to do a short film on a low budget, you gotta buy a Mac and a high-end digital camera,” Sims recounts. “When I saw the Mac my photographer friend had, I was psyched,” he says. “It looked like an instrument you would use. See, computers don’t do anything unless there’s a guy, an artist, orchestrating everything. I saw the Mac not as a product, but as a tool to make the stuff I wanted to become reality.”

Free DVD Studio Pro Classes at DVD Conference - Now that Apple has released DVD Studio Pro version 2, it's time to learn how to use it. As part of the DVD Conference, Apple is sponsoring beginner and basic classes in the applicatio

Snappers show date for Apple - Apple will attend Visa pour l'Image , a show for photojournalists that is being held in France from September 1-6. Apple will demonstrate PowerBooks G4s running a selection of leading image-editing applications, and also promises daily seminars

Developers at the recent NAMM show in Nashville and the Macworld Creative Pro conference in New York City unveiled new Mac OS X software and hardware for audio and music, encouraging even the most tech-wary music-maker to set up a home-based recording studio

David Turnley The Human Condition - During his career, Turnley also has contributed to seven of the 14 “A Day in the Life” projects — all of which have been produced on Macs — including the monumental “A Day in the Life of Africa.” For this project, Turnley joined nearly 100 of the world’s foremost photojournalists (including his twin brother, Peter) from 26 countries; they documented the entire continent of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope, in a single day.

Sterling Rush Dressing the Set for “24” - “It was just so easy to bring up a scene in iPhoto, and much faster than I could any other way. I tried programs like Excel — for organizing the information — but iPhoto is so much quicker and easier to use,” he adds. “It’s very user friendly.”

Stefan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats - Now, after over ten years of solo works and other projects, brothers Ivan and Stefan Doroschuk are back with the new Men Without Hats album No Hats Beyond This Point , a return to their synth-pop roots. We recently had the opportunity to speak with Stefan, and we found him not afraid to sound off about Apple Computer (specifically, OS X), the music industry, and how he used the Macintosh to pull the new album together

Eli Reed - Catching Liquid Moments - Reed’s balancing act continues this spring when he plans to take some time off from shooting for corporate clients to complete a photo essay on the environment, as well as a documentary, which he hopes to cut in Final Cut Pro

Five Questions with James Nachtwey - 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

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