Final Cut Pro 4.0 was announced at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in April, but has only bee shipping recently. The new upgrade provides numerous new features:
- Packed with more than 300 new features, Final Cut Pro 4 introduces RT Extreme, for real-time composting 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.
Cost (Final Cut Pro 4.0): $899
Cost (Final Cut Pro 4.0 Upgrade): $399
