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  1. May 18, 2006 · CUPERTINO, California—May 18, 2006—Apple® today released Final Cut® Express HD 3.5, a significant upgrade to its award-winning software solution for video enthusiasts, schools and small businesses that runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

    • Universal Appeal
    • Dynamic RT
    • Keyframing
    • Ndtrack 1.5 and LiveType 2.1
    • Macworld’s Buying Advice

    When Apple began the migration to Intel-based Macs, the company pushed hard to release a Universal version of its professional Final Cut Studio suite—but there was no mention of Final Cut Express. That wouldn’t have been a big deal except that Final Cut Express wouldn’t run on an Intel Mac, leaving videographers who were ready to buy new hardware w...

    Shiny feature number two is Dynamic RT, which promises to speed up your work—or at least get rid of the time you spend waiting for Final Cut Express to render footage. Although Final Cut Express 2 ( ) introduced RT Extreme, the real-time effects preview that it offered applied to many—but not all—transitions and effects, depending on the speed of y...

    The third new feature in Final Cut Express HD 3.5 is the addition of full keyframe effects control, which lets you apply specific settings over time by defining them at a particular point on the timeline; this capability was previously reserved for Final Cut Pro. Earlier versions of Express supported some basic motion and audio keyframing, but now ...

    In addition to these three new features, the inclusion of improved versions of Soundtrack 1.5 and LiveType 2.1 helps enrich the Final Cut Express HD package. Soundtrack 1.5 is actually not a revision of Soundtrack 1.2, which was included in the last release of Final Cut Express HD; instead, it is a new application built from the code base of Soundt...

    While the number of changes in Final Cut Express HD 3.5 since the last version are few, the improvements are substantial. Dynamic RT alone makes editing easier for those of us who get fidgety while waiting for footage to render. The fact that the included programs are both much improved and Universal means you can budget for a new Intel-based Mac w...

  2. May 18, 2006 · Apple on Thursday released Final Cut Express HD 3.5, a significant upgrade to its software solution for video enthusiasts, schools and small businesses that runs natively on both Intel-...

  3. May 18, 2006 · Apple on Thursday released Final Cut Express HD 3.5, a significant upgrade to its software solution for video enthusiasts, schools and small businesses that runs natively on both Intel-...

  4. I then discovered that Apple generously allows users of any version of FCE to upgrade to version 3.5 for just AUD$139 (US$99). For any existing owners of FCE, that is a good value, especially for version 1 owners like myself.

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