Pro Applications Update release notes

Oct 23, 2009 12:56 GMT  ·  By

In a series of Support documents posted on its website, Apple details the changes undergone by each Final Cut Studio application following the release of Pro Applications Update 2009-01. Available exclusively to Mac OS X users, the update enhances the overall stability, and addresses a number of minor issues with applications like Motion 4.0.1, Soundtrack Pro 3.0.1, Color 1.5.1, and Compressor 3.5.1.

Soundtrack Pro 3.0.1 is an update to Soundtrack Pro 3.0, according to Apple. As part of the paid upgrade to Final Cut Studio (2009), it corrects an issue with the Get Info window for Soundtrack Pro and it is highly recommended for all Soundtrack Pro 3 users, according to Support article TS2510.

Color 1.5.1, also part of the paid upgrade to Final Cut Studio (2009), fixes half a dozen issues related to the gamma of the monitor, the aspect ratio, loading / opening / saving files, and others. Qmaster 3.5.1, on the other hand, delivers improvements as well. One such notable change is the improved quality when using the Frame Controls Resize Filter for HD to SD DVD case. Featuring the same release notes, Compressor 3.5.1 also fixes an issue in which transcodes between Apple ProRes codecs resulted in output media files with incorrect color values in letterbox and padding areas.

The release notes for Motion 4.0.1 are a tad lengthier. Apple notes the following changes occurring with the software:

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Depth of Field with an animated focal point

Quality and precision is increased when rendering a scene with an animated focal point, or in some cases with objects that were animated to vary in distance from the camera. ·

Text characters now display properly for all languages

Some non-english languages that include Hebrew, Arabic, and potentially others, now properly maintain characters which could occasionally not display in Motion 4.0. ·

Improved 3rd party FxPlug support

Addressed issues that could have resulted in image clipping, memory management, or image position and could have affected some 3rd party FxPlug filters. ·

Rendering of Motion Projects within Compressor

Fixes an issue which caused Compressor jobs to not complete when they were tasked with processing older Motion projects. ·

Text Rendering

Enhances rendering performance for certain flattened text objects. ·

Multiple Instances of the Point at Behavior

Resolves a performance issue experienced when combining multiple Point at Behaviors. ·

Text Outlines

The Outline style element of text is no longer incorrectly scaled in size when the point size of the font of text object is manipulated or animated. ·

Rendering of PDF Files

Resolves an issue where certain PDF file content was not rendered properly when rotated at certain angles in a 3D Motion project. ·

Inspector Parameters

Certain parameters are no longer incorrectly hidden from view in the Inspector.

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