QuickTime NewsMay 19, 2006
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Introducing Final Cut Express HD 3.5
QuickTime showcase
Movie trailers
Get creative
iTunes corner
Hot tips
Tracks to watch

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Apple Store, Fifth Avenue, Opens Today: Apple will open its newest and most extraordinary retail store yet on New York’s Fifth Avenue on Friday, May 19 at 6:00 p.m. EDT. This architecturally innovative store features a distinctive 32-foot glass cube that creates a stunning new destination on Fifth Avenue, one of the world’s most popular shopping areas. The Apple Store, Fifth Avenue, will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to offer an unprecedented level of service.

Apple Unveils New MacBook: Check out the newly designed MacBook, the world’s most advanced consumer notebook featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and a gorgeous new 13-inch glossy widescreen display, all in a sleek design.

Valhalla for the Human Ear: Walk into the Sonic Laboratory of Queen’s University’s Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast and you enter a temple of audio delights. Driven by Macs, this 21st-century aural haven gives researchers, engineers, composers, and performers a unique space for cutting-edge experiments in music and audio.

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The Da Vinci Code

Composer Hans Zimmer provides a haunting score for the movie “The Da Vinci Code,” based on the book by Dan Brown. Watch a video featuring Zimmer and director Ron Howard discussing the making of the music. You can purchase “The Da Vinci Code” soundtrack and audiobook at the iTunes Music Store.

Primal Scream

Primal Scream returns to old school rock’n’rock with the first single, “Country Girl,” from the band’s upcoming release, “Riot City Blues.” Meet an unforgettable country girl in the new video.

Visit the iTunes Music Store to download earlier albums from Primal Scream.

We Are Scientists

The music from indie rockers We Are Scientists will simultaneously break your hips and break your heart. Check out the video for “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt.”

Buy this track and preview more music from the “With Love and Squalor” album at the iTunes Music Store.

Rogers Sisters

The up-and-coming Brooklyn-based trio the Rogers Sisters recently released videos for “Never Learn to Cry” and “Why Won’t You” from their upcoming album, “The Invisible Deck.”

You can download the single “Never Learn to Cry” and earlier releases from this fresh and provocative group at the iTunes Music Store.

Gary Allan

See why Gary Allan’s new single, “Life Ain’t Always Beautiful,” is climbing the country charts. Preview more tracks from “Tough All Over” at the iTunes Music Store.

SPEECH

Multi-platinum, MTV and Grammy Award-winning artist SPEECH from Arrested Development is back with a new album, “The Vagabond,” featuring the single, “Esmerelda.” If you like the video, visit the iTunes Music Store to check out the rest of the album.

The Black Heart Procession

“The Spell” is a fitting name for the Black Heart Procession’s album — it’s intoxicating, disorienting and enchanting. Listen to “The Spell,” available at the iTunes Music Store.

Scott Jarrett

Twenty five years ago Scott Jarrett released his debut album, “Without Rhyme Or Reason,” a collection of songs that captivated listeners and critics alike. And then he disappeared...

Now, Jarrett has re-emerged with his long-awaited sequel, “The Gift of Thirst.” Hear a sample of the album, which you can buy at the iTunes Music Store.

Sandy Thom

Too broke to go on a road tour, 24-year-old singer/songwriter Sandi Thom staged her own three week tour, broadcasted on the Internet from the basement of her London flat. By the end of the tour, she had 70,000 web viewers from all over the world.

Well, she got someone’s attention all right. Enjoy the video for “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (with Flowers in My Hair),” the first single from her debut album, “Simile...It Confuses People.”

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Introducing Final Cut Express HD 3.5
Final Cut Express HD 3.5
Express yourself with powerful DV/HDV editing. Take your filmmaking to the next level with Final Cut Express HD 3.5, which runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Designed for beginners and experienced editors alike, this feature-rich editing software delivers professional-quality results.

Renowned for its powerful DV editing tools, Final Cut Express HD also offers high-definition video capability. The newly-released version features Dynamic RT for real-time playback of multi-stream effects, Soundtrack 1.5 with a complete suite of professional level audio production tools, and LiveType 2.1 with even more stunning animated text and titles.

Learn more about Final Cut Express HD 3.5 now.

QuickTime showcase
Call of Duty 2 “Call of Duty 2” redefines the cinematic intensity and chaos of battle as seen through the eyes of ordinary soldiers fighting together in epic WWII conflicts. Activision’s sequel to “Call of Duty” (winner of more than 80 Game of the Year awards for 2003), “Call of Duty 2” offers more immense, more intense, more realistic battles than ever before, thanks to the stunning visuals of the new COD2 engine.

Enjoy the “Call of Duty 2” game trailer now.

XGR Racers In these days of rising fuel costs it’s refreshing to see a new form of motorsport where the race cars have no motors. Powered only by gravity, each team has an equal chance since they all share a common power source. Small groups of engineers from various automobile factories — such as Audi, Volkswagen, Bentley, Mazda, Nissan, Volvo, GM and others — designed many of the XGR cars.

Check out the XGR cars.

NAB Check out the hottest gear from companies like ViewCast, TeleStream, Pro Sound Effects and VitalStream in this VideoClix-enabled coverage of the NAB 2006 conference in Las Vegas.

Click on the products in the video to learn more about them.

Movie trailers
X-Men: The Last Stand In “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the final chapter in the X-Men motion picture trilogy, a “cure” for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness — though it isolates and alienates them — or give up their powers and become human.

The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who preaches tolerance, and Magneto (Ian McKellen), who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test — triggering the war to end all wars.

Find out what happens when “X-Men: The Last Stand” opens in theaters May 26.

Get creative
WWDC 2006 At the Worldwide Developers Conference 2006, August 7-11 in San Francisco, you’ll find more than 130 sessions packed with in-depth information and expert guidance from Apple engineers. Learn how to take advantage of current technologies in Mac OS X Tiger and see a preview of what’s coming in Mac OS X Leopard.

See the details on nearly 100 session and labs, including Developing Modern QuickTime Applications, High-Performance QuickTime Video Processing, Modern QuickTime Audio Programming Techniques, QuickTime Streaming for IT, Graphics and Media State of the Union and Apple Help Best Practices.

iTunes corner
Discovery Channel The iTunes Music Store just added television shows from Discovery Channel, Discovery Health, Discovery Kids, the Travel Channel and Animal Planet. Catch your favorite episodes of “Discovery: Extreme Engineering,” “Discovery: Mythbusters,” “Animal Planet: Most Extreme (Wild Animals),” “Travel: World’s Best,” “Discovery Health: Amazing Babies,” “Discovery Kids: Kenny the Shark” and many more entertaining and educational shows.

free Single of the Week Download the iTunes Music Store free Single of the Week — “What’s the Use” by Jamie Lidell. Check back every Tuesday for a new free download.

Download iTunes 6 for Mac OS X or Windows. It’s free.

Hot Tips
QuickTime 7.1 QuickTime 7.1 is now available for download. Keep your software up to date with the latest version of QuickTime to ensure the best media experience on the Web.




QuickTime News, May 19, 2006, Volume 8, Issue 10

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