NAB, LAS VEGAS—April 6, 2003—Apple® today introduced Final Cut Pro® 4, a major upgrade of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing software for film, HD, SD and DV. Packed with more than 300 new features, Final Cut Pro 4 introduces RT Extreme, for real-time compositing and effects, powerful new interface customization tools, new high-quality 8- and 10-bit uncompressed formats and for the first time in an editing system costing less than $100,000, full 32-bit floating point per channel video processing. Final Cut Pro 4 also includes three completely new integrated applications—LiveType for advanced titling, Soundtrack for music creation and Compressor for full featured batch transcoding.

LiveType, a unique new titling application available only in Final Cut Pro 4, enables users to create dynamic, animated titles quickly and easily. LiveType includes LiveFonts, a new approach to text animation in which every character of a font is a separate animated movie. With over 8GB of media including LiveFonts, 150 pre-configured effects, customizable templates, backgrounds, animated textures and objects, LiveType enables Final Cut Pro 4 users to develop their own customized look, either from scratch or by modifying existing effects. With support for DV, SD and HD formats, LiveType allows users to quickly and easily create sophisticated, professional-quality animated text and graphic effects.