June 14
Apple Bundles Media Cleaner Broadcast with Final Cut Pro

by David Nagel
Executive Producer

Apple yesterday announced it would start bundling Media Cleaner Compression Suite Broadcast Edition with Final Cut Pro. The bundle includes Terran's streaming media application, Media Cleaner Pro; the developer edition of the Sorenson Video codec; the professional edition of the QDesign Music Codec; Sorenson Broadcaster and Terran's "How to Produce High Quality QuickTime" guide. Media Cleaner Compression Suite Broadcast Edition provides a set of tools that enable optimized media compression for on demand and live streaming over the Internet, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM.

Apple earlier this month announced a new version of Final Cut Pro (1.2.5), which, like FCP 1.2, version 1.2.5 is optimized for the G4's Velocity Engine. Apple says the new version offers faster rendering speeds, improved batch capture, three-key shuttling, Macromedia Flash import, new audio reverb filters and support for PAL.

Also like 1.2, FCP 1.2.5 includes Puffin/Pinnacle Systems' Commotion DV, Maxon Computer's Cinema 4D Go and Terran Interactive's Media Cleaner EZ 4 for QuickTime.

Media Cleaner Compression Suite Broadcast Edition is available only with Final Cut Pro at a bundle price of $1,848. This specially priced bundle is available through the end of July from the Apple Store. Media Cleaner Compression Suite is also available separately from Terran Interactive for $1,299. The full version of Final Cut Pro sells for $999. For more information, visit http://www.apple.com or http://www.terran.com.

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