AppleInsider reports:
Apple will no longer offer its Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, and DVD Studio Pro audio and video applications as standalone products, and come March will choose instead to sell them exclusively as part of the $1299 Final Cut Studio production suite. In February, Apple will begin taking orders for a universal version of Final Cut Studio called “Final Cut Studio Universal,” which will ship in March for $1299. The company also appears that it will continue to market a PowerPC-only version of the suite under the name “Final Cut Studio 1.1.”Apple will also offer $49 crossgrade upgrades for its other Pro applications, Aperture and Logic Pro 7.1. For users of Logic Express 7.1, the upgrade will cost only $29. There is so far no word on plans for Shake, Apple’s $2999 advanced digital compositing software.
