iMac Update: 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.

How often do you get new features for free? Not often. Especially when an ungrade offers so many delightful surprises, including native support for Mac OS X.

But that’s just what the free upgrade to AOL offers—greater functionality, significant improvements, and compelling new content features.

Take, for example, support for wireless networking via AirPort. With AOL for Mac OS X, multiple members of your household can log onto AOL at the same time by sharing the same Internet connection.¹

When all of you check your mail, AOL for Mac OS X offers three more surprises: you’ll find new options for sorting your mail, each of you will enjoy your own separate address books, and you’ll be able to access your address books anytime and anywhere you're using AOL.

What else is new in AOL for Mac OS X? Plenty.

¹ Wireless Internet access requires AirPort Card, AirPort Base Station, and Internet access (fees may apply).

Wouldn’t it be great to hear “You’ve got mail” anywhere in and around your home—in the living room, the den, the bedroom, even the backyard?

Now you can, thanks to AirPort 2.0, the first product of its kind to offer wireless access to America Online. But, hang on a minute, how do you make sure you get the best performance from your new AirPort Base Station and AOL 5.0 software? Does anyone offer instructions explaining, step by step, how to connect via standard dialup modem, DSL, or cable modem?

We do. In fact, we have a fully illustrated article in our Knowledge Base that will have you wirelessly reading email and surfing the web faster than you can say “Good-bye.”

Portfolios have come a long way. Used to be, they were the province of artists, who would lug around large, black presentation cases filled with examples of their talent, skills, and experience.

Nowadays, high school students demonstrate their accomplishments with project portfolios that travel, not in a presentation case, but on a CD.

They do, that is, if they attend the Key Learning Community K-12 School in Indianapolis. Students there begin creating and presenting projects in kindergarten and, by the time they graduate, assemble impressive multimedia presentations documenting what they’ve learned.

To create the portfolios, they of course use state-of-the-art tools: iMac computers and iMovie.

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.

Thank you for reading this issue of iMac Update.
Look for your next issue on December 20.

One moment you’re on the ground. The next, clouds rush past as you soar 10,000 feet in the air.

Ever have that daydream? Now you can embark on a flight of fancy whenever you want. Simply load Fly! II on your Mac and prepare for take-off.

Built for Mac OS X, Fly! II lets you choose from among ten aircraft, five cities to fly over, and various cockpits so realistic you’ll want to announce “This is your captain speaking...”

Available at the Apple Store, Fly! II is just one of many games that grace our Holiday Gift Guide. Be sure to stop by and take a look at the family, strategy, and action games that will keep the game players in your family entertained this holiday season.

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?

Life shouldn’t be all work and no play—especially during the holidays—so we’re offering a little proposition.

Buy AppleWorks 6.2—it’s built for Mac OS X and can easily handle all your word processing, page layout, spreadsheet, and presentation needs—and you’ll receive a free copy of the innovative “people simulator” The Sims. Already own The Sims? We’ll send you The Sims: House Party, instead.

Ready to reap the fruits of your labor? Better hurry—this offer lasts only until February 28, 2002.

By the way, if you want to play The Sims or House Party in Mac OS X, just download the appropriate patch from our Games Downloads web site.

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