Mac OS X Leopard
Tomorrow. Available today.
With Mac OS X Leopard, the world’s most advanced operating system is now even better.
Leopard is loaded with innovations – starting with an amazingly trouble-free installation if you’re upgrading your Mac. Then it’s never been easier to find, arrange and share everything on your computer. Organise your files in stacks, browse files with Cover Flow, use Quick Look to preview files without even opening them, go back in time to restore old files with Time Machine,1 send email using personalised stationery, add effects to video chats2 and much more.
Features:
- Introduces over 300 new and enhanced features to OS X, including a new desktop and updated finder enabling easy browsing and sharing between multiple Macs.
- Take advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware with full native 64-bit support, multi-core optimization, and new Core animation.
- Preview files without opening an application using Quick Look.
- Easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac with Time Machine.
- Create groups of applications and instantly switch between them with Spaces.
iWork ’08
Apple's amazing productivity suite for the Mac, iWork '08 includes three applications: Pages '08 for word processing with an incredible sense of style; Numbers '08 for powerful, compelling spreadsheets made easy; and Keynote '08 for cinema-quality presentations for everyone.
Numbers ’08
Introducing Numbers ’08, an innovative spreadsheet application that lets you organize your data to fit the way you think. Do everything from setting up the family budget to completing a lab report to creating complex financial documents.
Pages ’08
Writing comes naturally when you’re using Pages ’08. Start with one of over 140 templates to write beautiful letters, resumes, reports, business plans, and more. And create media-rich newsletters, brochures, and flyers with point-and-click ease.
Keynote ’08
Create stunning, cinema-quality presentations more easily than ever with Keynote ’08. Use new animation tools to move and scale images along a path. Or rotate them on the face of a cube or on a turntable. Add dazzling text effects and slide transitions. Even record and deliver narrated presentations.
iLife ’08
Your life’s events. In photos, movies, and websites.
iLife ’08, a major update to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, delivers significant upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, GarageBand and iDVD, plus a completely reinvented iMovie that offers a revolutionary new way to enjoy, edit and share your video.
iPhoto ’08
Organize. Enhance. Share. Turn pictures into a photo book, calendar, and personal Web Gallery.
iMovie ’08
Easily create amazing movies and share them with the world.
iWeb ’08
Quickly create a stunning website, complete with photos, movies, and live web widgets.
GarageBand ’08
Create and record music, make podcasts, and play with your own virtual band.
iDVD ’08
Turn your home movies and slideshows into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs.
Final Cut Studio 2
Final Cut Studio 2 is not just a product. It's a platform. Open standards encourage innovation, giving developers and partners the freedom to create custom solutions. With XML to share project data and QuickTime to seamlessly move media between systems, Final Cut Studio 2 can fit into virtually any production pipeline or newsroom.
Whether you're working in a group of 2 or 200, Final Cut Studio lets you collaborate with ease. Share media seamlessly across multiple workstations with Xsan. Use Final Cut Server--with or without Xsan--for media asset management and workflow automation that is deeply integrated with Final Cut Studio 2. Whether you're cutting commercials, editing feature films, or pushing out the nightly news, Final Cut Server helps you work faster whenever you're working together.
Final Cut Pro 6
The first choice of professional editors worldwide, Final Cut Pro 6 delivers high performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability. Its workflow extends through the other Final Cut Studio applications and Final Cut Server for even more power. Whether you're working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before
Color
Color grading involves more than color correction. Just as different soundtracks can make a particular scene feel humorous, romantic, or menacing, the look created by a color grade can radically alter the tone and mood of a sequence. Color, Apple's new professional color grading application, makes it easy for editors to create signature looks for projects ranging from short video pieces to full-length theatrical films.
Motion 3
Motion 3 takes the complexity out of 3D by extending the 2D tools you already use. With its intuitive interface and rich toolset, the only limit is your imagination. Send particles exploding through space. Swing cameras around an object with breathtaking ease. Squiggle a vector-based paint stroke in 3D through the cosmos. Motion 3 lets you create 3D motion graphics with drag-and-drop ease, startling performance, and unprecedented color fidelity.
Soundtrack Pro 2
Soundtrack Pro 2 offers unprecedented convenience and power to editors. Fly through audio editing and mixing with a new, streamlined interface that combines the multitrack Timeline and Waveform Editor in a single view. Easily create immersive soundtracks with innovative surround sound tools. Automatically conform your audio edit to changes made in your video edit. With its familiar interface and intuitive tools, Soundtrack Pro is the Final Cut Pro of audio post-production.
Compressor 3
With increasing demand for media distribution in multiple formats--ranging from HD broadcast to an iPod screen--it's more important than ever to be able to output files efficiently while keeping quality high. The streamlined interface of Compressor 3 lets you quickly configure batch processes for encoding to a wide range of industry standard formats. Or create format and standards conversions at pristine quality through sophisticated optical flow technology. For the ultimate high-speed workflow, set up distributed encoding over a shared-media network powered by Xsan.
DVD Studio Pro 4
DVD Studio Pro 4 makes it easy to extend your creative vision to every aspect of DVD authoring. Whether your project is simple or sophisticated, you'll enjoy using familiar, easy-to-use tools to produce the perfect presentation of your SD or HD content. A comprehensive set of advanced features is available whenever you want more control.
Apple Remote Desktop
Apple Remote Desktop 3, the award-winning desktop management system for Mac OS X, has more than 50 new features that deliver improvements in software distribution, asset management, and remote assistance. Apple Remote Desktop 3 offers a wide range of high-performance features, including lightning-fast Spotlight searches across multiple Tiger systems; more than 30 Automator actions for easy automation of repetitive tasks; a Dashboard widget that provides quick and convenient observation of remote systems; and AutoInstall for automatically updating software on mobile systems once they return to the network.
Logic Express 7
Logic Express 7 helps musicians take full advantage of the abilities of new Mac computers. Songwriters can produce impressive demo songs by incorporating audio recordings, sample-based sounds and virtual instruments entirely on the computer. Enjoy enhanced support for prominent third-party products, as well as project compatibility with Garageband 3. Logic Express 7 also provides support for stereo Rewire objects and now clearly labels the incoming Rewire streams to reflect the source application. Logic Express 7 allows you to play back AAC and Apple Lossless files directly which ensures project compatibility with Garageband 3 and smaller file sizes. 27 software instruments, including GarageBand Instruments, ES1, EFM1, ESM, ESP and ESE synthesizers 40 effect plug-ins, including Guitar Amp, Preset Multipressor, PlatinumVerb, Compressor, Bitcrusher, AutoFilter, Phaser and more Save/Load Channel Strip instrument and plug-in configurations Advanced MIDI sequencing More than 300 definable key and MIDI commands 90 recallable screen configurations with interactive edit windows Setup Assistant for easy system configuration Fast, offline bouncing of single or multiple tracks Tempo, Signature, Transpose and Video Tracks Support for Apple Loops (more than 1,000 Apple Loops included).
.Mac
Your life. On the Internet.
Share photos and movies in Web Gallery. Create a website. Email from anywhere. And now access your remote Mac from another Mac. All with drag-and-drop simplicity and a few clicks. With powerful online services that work seamlessly with iLife and Mac OS X, .Mac makes it easy to get more from your Mac and everything on it.
Features:
- Share photos and movies beautifully—directly from iLife ‘08.
- Publish a great-looking website or blog with a click.
- Stay in touch from anywhere with email that stays in sync.
- Access your Mac. From another Mac.
- Sync contacts, calendars, and more across multiple Macs.
- Share and access files from anywhere.
- Protect your precious memories with a few clicks.
- Spread your wings online with room to spare.
Aperture
Aperture is the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers! Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot. With its RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. Its ultra-fast image processing combines with Photoshop's strong compositing and layer effects for creating the most stunning photographs every time. Powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, color managed printing and custom web and book publishing tools help you develop perfect contact sheets, elegant books, and gorgeous web pages - all as beautiful as the images you capture. Reduce noise, correct red-eye, or eliminate dust Launch directly into Adobe Photoshop with a single-click Unique compare and select tools in Aperture allow photographers to sift through massive photo projects and identify their final selections The unique Lift & Stamp tool applies modifications to any number of additional images Metadata on display giving you more information about your photos and allowing customized keywords, ratings, EXIF information, and IPTC data to fit your needs Supports the leading Digital Cameras, with optimized RAW format support for the following SLR's - Canon EOS, Canon Powershot, Nikon D Series, Nikon K1X, Olympus E1 and Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Introducing the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers. Built from the ground up for professionals, Aperture offers an advanced RAW workflow, powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing and versatile printing and publishing.
Logic Studio
Introducing Logic Studio, Apple's comprehensive suite of professional tools that provides musicians with everything they need to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Logic Studio includes Logic Pro 8, Apple's professional music application; MainStage, an innovative new application for music performance; and Soundtrack Pro 2 for audio post-production. It also includes acclaimed instruments, professional effects, an expanded sound library, and new production utilities like Compressor 3 and Waveburner ? all in a single box. System Requirements - Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
Logic Studio
With its acclaimed power and flexibility for writing, recording, and producing music, Logic Pro 8 is the heart of Logic Studio.
Main Stage
MainStage turns your Mac into a flexible live rig that includes a rich array of software instruments, powerful effects processing, and easy integration with standard hardware controllers.
Soundtrack Pro 2
Create immersive soundtracks with flexible surround tools. Easily move projects between Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, using simple round-trip collaboration features and the industry’s first automatic conform process. With its familiar interface and intuitive tools, Soundtrack Pro opens the world of audio post-production to musicians.
Studio Instruments
Featuring 40 powerful, updated instrument plug-ins seamlessly integrated into Logic Pro 8 and MainStage, Studio Instruments provides the largest set of instrument plug-ins available in a single box. Updated instruments include an enhanced version of Ultrabeat, an improved EXS24 Sampler, and Sculpture and ES2 synths, both updated for True Surround.
Studio Effects
Enhance music productions, live performances, and post-production projects with 80 professional effect plug-ins. Studio Effects now feature 16 True Surround effect plug-ins, including the new Delay Designer, a new surround version of Space Designer, and Surround Compressor.
Studio Sound Library
Thousands of channel strip settings, royalty-free Apple Loops, sound effects, and EXS sampled instruments provide creative fuel for music creation, production, and performance. New surround content allows you to build beautiful, immersive productions.
Production Utilities
Logic Studio includes convenient production utilities for mastering and authoring CDs, encoding AC-3 surround files, and creating impulse response files and Apple Loops. Logic Studio production utilities include:
- Wave Burner
- Compressor 3
- Impulse Response Utility
- Apple Loops Utility
Wave Burner, a CD mastering and authoring environment, is simple enough for quick turnaround demo discs yet sophisticated enough to deliver professional premasters and Red Book–standard CDs.
Use Compressor 3 to encode and preview surround mixes in the industry-standard Dolby Digital AC-3 format. It outputs files to MP3 as well as to any QuickTime-compatible format, including AAC, AIFF, and QuickTime Surround.
An impulse response is a sample that captures the acoustic characteristics of a given physical space. Use the Impulse Response Utility to create a profile of your favorite recording space--from a tiny wine cellar to Notre Dame Cathedral--in mono, stereo, B-Format surround, or discrete surround. Then use the sample in Space Designer to place your music "inside" the acoustic space.
The Apple Loops Utility lets you convert any audio file to an Apple Loop. It analyzes the sound file and generates the metadata used by Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro to match the audio file’s tempo and key to the project tempo and key, without changing pitch.
Shake 4
Shake 4 is the only compositing software with a complete toolset for both single artists and visual effects facilities. With 3-D multi-plane compositing; 32-bit keylight and primatte keying; cutting-edge optical-flow image processing; Final Cut Pro 5 integration; and an open, extensible scripting language, Shake 4 delivers all the tools required for sophisticated film and television visual effects.
Already in a Theater Near You.
The choice of Oscar-winning effects artists seven years in a row, Shake now offers a host of new features that give you the highest quality output for film and HD. Use Shake to create convincing, photorealistic, Hollywood-caliber visual effects on a desktop--and on a budget.
Features:
- Composite unlimited layers in 3D space for seemless blending of live action CGI
- Intuitive way to construct sophisticated composites
- Uses advanced optical flow technology
- 32-bit Keylight Primatte