Apple offers Pro Apps Bundle for Education in Canada

Giving both educators and students the tools they need to teach and learn, Apple is offering its Pro Apps Bundle for Education in the country. The suite will be available to college students, K12, and HiEd institutions and teachers for CA$259.99. It’ll include Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4, and MainStage 3. These apps offer real world video editing and music creation capabilities to help schools have an end-to-end solution for these subjects.

Apple's Final Cut Pro X, Motion and Compressor updated

Apple updated its professional video editing tools Final Cut Pro X, Motion and Compressor with new features for motion graphics and key enhancements to accelerate video editing, packaging and delivery.

Final Cut Pro 10.2 introduces stunning 3D titles that are easy to use, improved masking for colour grading and effects, and native support for more camera formats, as well as GPU-accelerated RED RAW processing. Motion 5.2 extends the power of 3D titles with the ability to create custom materials and environments and instantly publish them to Final Cut Pro X. Compressor 4.2 makes it easy to package a movie for sale on the iTunes Store. Owners of these applications should be able to update by enabling the Software Update feature on their Macs.

Final Cut Pro X gets update to support 4K, new Mac Pros

With the availability of the new Mac Pro starting today, Apple's Final Cut Pro X application is getting an update to be able to manage 4K monitors as well as work with the new hardware. A ton of features coming to FCP have been long awaited by many users who were otherwise underwhelmed by the intial feature set of the revamped Final Cut Pro. Compressor and Motion have also been updated in order to better manage 4K content and  Motion is now tuned to work with the new Mac Pro and its dual AMD GPUs.

Source: Engadget

Apple releases Final Cut Pro X for $299

Apple today announced Final Cut Pro X, the long awaited new version of their Pro video editing software which completely reinvents video editing with a Magnetic Timeline that lets users edit on a flexible, trackless canvas; Content Auto-Analysis that categorizes your content upon import by shot type, media and people; and background rendering that allows you to work without interruption. Built on a modern 64-bit architecture, Final Cut Pro X is available from the Mac App Store for $299.99.

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