Apple eNews: December 13, 2001

Documentary filmmakers love it. Broadcast journalists swear by it. And some of the leading companies making trailers and commercials for Hollywood movies rave about it.

Final Cut Pro has become the preferred app for just about anyone who does any kind of video editing, and just last week we announced Final Cut Pro 3, a totally new version with awesome new capabilities, including:

	Full support for Mac OS X
	G4 real-time effects (render-free playback of effects without PCI cards)
	OfflineRT (an offline format that lets you store up to 24 hours of footage on a 48GB hard drive)
	New professional color correction tools—built in

Learn all about Final Cut Pro 3—scheduled to ship later this month—by visiting our totally revamped Final Cut Pro website. Or visit the Apple Store and order it today.

Peggy hears the music playing. She wakes up to smooth jazz. Tunes in to her favorite stations in the car. Rocks to the beat at work. Pedals to it in the gym. And when she works on her iBook, you guessed it, iTunes soothes her soul.

And that’s good news. When it comes to picking out a gift for someone like Peggy, it’s not hard to figure out where to look.

Just visit our Holiday Gift Guide and waltz into the music section. You’ll find lots of great gift ideas for the music lovers in your life. Noise-cancelling headphones. “The Little iTunes Book.” CD burners. And—the ultimate gift for true lovers of music—iPod.

IBM’s ViaVoice for Mac OS X has a few tricks up its sleeve. For example, you can have it read email (or other documents) to you. Out loud. That could come in handy if your hands are occupied with something else—like wrapping presents maybe.

Of course, the product’s true claim to fame: it listens to every word you say and lets you rely on your voice rather than your keyboard. Thanks to award-winning speech-recognition technology, it lets you dictate into most text applications (including email applications); launch applications by name; and navigate through your hard drive.

You can learn all about ViaVoice for Mac OS X on our website, and if you like, you can purchase it from the Apple Store.

You’re not going to believe what people are doing with Mathematica these days.

One of the newest in the growing family of products built for Mac OS X, Mathematica from Wolfram Research, Inc., is being used not only by engineers, scientists, and researchers, but by teachers, fashion designers, musicians, and skateboard designers.

They’ve all discovered the secret: Mathematica “makes scientific computation downright convenient,” and Theodore Gray, Wolfram cofounder, couldn’t be more pleased that it is now native to Mac OS X. “Mac OS X is the ideal operating system for Mathematica. It combines the two roots from which Mathematica grew: UNIX and Macintosh.”

Designers can tell you. It may be cool to have a thousand or more fonts at your disposal, but when you’re juggling a dozen high-priority projects, you don’t want to build a database to track which projects require ITC Cerigo and which use Adobe Caslon. More headaches you don’t need.

That’s why designers turn to font management tools. Like Extensis Software’s Suitcase 10, the first font management program built for Mac OS X.

Suitcase 10 lets you preview fonts, build font sets (for projects and clients), activate and deactivate fonts and font sets on the fly, and using a revolutionary innovation called the Bridge, Suitcase 10 lets you open PostScript and TrueType fonts for both classic and Mac OS X applications.

Shipping now, Suitcase 10 is available at the Apple Store.

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Snow, blustery weather, and packed malls will be a distant memory before you have to make your first payment on the iPod, PowerBook, or Power Mac G4 you purchase today.

If, that is, you take advantage of the Apple Instant Loan program.

With interest as low as 9.99%, you’re sure to enjoy low monthly payments, but (and here’s the best part), you won’t have to start making those payments until June 2002. This limited offer ends December 31, 2001. So hurry.

You can get all the details on our website.

Garr had to admit it.

He always forgets the steps needed to use his iBook in FireWire target disk mode. Each time he wants to transfer files to his Power Mac G4, he makes a trip to the Knowledge Base to read “How to Use FireWire Target Disk Mode.”

So Garr was delighted to hear that he can now set up his own personal support page the next time he visits the Knowledge Base. My Support lets Garr create a personal library of favorite Knowledge Base articles. And that’s not all.

He can save his favorite searches. Read helpful Knowledge Base tips. Create links to the discussion groups he monitors. Find out what new software downloads or articles have been released on topics he defines. And more.

Have you set up your My Support page yet?

Mac OS X offers so many neat new features—the Dock, Image Capture, toolbars, Print Center—and you’d probably like to know how you can take full advantage of them.

Guess what? You’ll find answers to many of your questions right on your Mac—simply by using Mac Help. (You’ll find it under the Help menu in the Finder.)

The Help Viewer quickly finds topics most relevant to what you need to know. Just type in a word or two or pose a question, and in seconds you’ll get a list of topics to explore.

And that’s not all. Mac Help offers easy access to the Help Center, includes automated helpers, and will even retrieve the latest news about Mac OS X from the Internet.

Give it a try today.

Go ahead. Pull down that Help menu.

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