Apple, Sony put HD on the road

A nationwide tour will give those in attendance insight into using Apple Computer’s Final Cut Studio, MacBook Pro and Sony’s XDCAM HD.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Jul 4, 2006

Apple Computer and Sony have kicked off a nationwide tour to demonstrate how Final Cut Studio, MacBook Pro and the XDCAM HD system can be combined to create an efficient high definition production workflow.

Tour dates and cities include:

Boston on July 12
San Francisco on July 13
Los Angeles on July 18
Gaithersburg, MD, on July 18
New York City on July 19
Atlanta on July 26
Chicago on August 1

Timed to coincide with the tour is the introduction of Sony’s transfer software for use with the Macintosh OS X version 10.4 Tiger. The software provides native interoperability between Sony’s XDCAM HD Professional Disc system and Apple’s Final Cut Pro nonlinear editing software.

The software is available free of charge online from www.sony.com/xdcamhd and will be demonstrated by both companies during the tour.

For more information, visit: http://seminars.apple.com/go.sonytour/.

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