Reports suggest that
Apple has been hard at work on adding realtime editing of 1080p H.264 video in the next iteration of Final Cut Pro Studio. If the news is proved accurate, the software will undoubtedly leverage Apple's technology for using GPUs to perform traditionally CPU-intensive tasks – OpenCL.
According to Apple, “OpenCL (Open Computing Language) makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU).” The company explains that, “With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing.”
9to5Mac
points out to a canon5dtips post whose author
claims to have been talking with a “very credible” source about the update, revealing that Apple will finally eliminate Final Cut users' biggest frustration, by allowing them to edit full 1080p HD video in realtime.
“As you all know, one of the most frustration thing [sic.] about video editing in HD is that you can never work directly with the original clips without some serious performance hit and frame skipping,” the post in question reads. “That is why some people just keep editing in H.264 and accept the ever present render bar as a necessary evil,” canon5dtips' poster says.
“Well, it is time to rejoice because very soon all of these issues are going to be history! I have learned that the next version of Quicktime (coming with Snow Leopard) is going to allow real time editing of the Canon 5DMrkII H.264 clips!,” the author claims. “Of course, this is just a second hand rumor so it has to be taken for what it is: a rumor. I publish this because my source is very credible and it fits nicely in Apple video editing strategy,” the author adds.
Apple is widely believed to be gearing for a
Final Cut Pro Studio update soon, while Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is scheduled for a release soon after WWDC '09.
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