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MAC BEA 20 TheiPhoneHits Shelves Product makes abig impression on usersandanalysts. 24 TheApple TV Gains YouTube Support Software update brings several new capabilities. 26 NoVirtualization for Vista Home—Again Microsoft keeps the cost high for using the new OS on the Mac. 4 32 HotStuff he iPhone 20 Check out the cool products we're into right now. lits Shel |REVIEWS | 34 MakingtheCut For video-editing pros, Apple's Final Cut Studio has long been the gold standard. We review the newversion in depth 46 TheMacBook Pro’s Progress Apple’s MacBook Pro gets an update—new LED screens for the 15-inch models, a high-resolution screen option for the 17-inch model, and graphics enhancements across the board. 48 macworld.com/reviews We're constantly reviewing the latest Mac hardware and software on Macworld.com, Here are quick summaries of this month’s online exclusives 52 TopProducts Looking fora new printer, monitor, digital camera, or other hardware? 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We know that this will lead many of you to wonder what the heck is wrong with us. After all, the let- ters will point out, this isn't Phoneworld, is it? No, it’s not. But then Apple's iPhone is not just a phone, either. It's also a full-featured iPod and—more impor- tantly for Macworld readers—the small- est Mac ever. The iPhone might weigh less than five ounces and rely on a revolutionary new touch-screen inter- face, but it rans OS X. When you browse the Web on it, you're using the same WebKit technology that drives Safari on your Mac. That's not the only Mac connection, of course. The iPhone is an important addition to the list of products you can attach to your Mac, And unlike most phones, which require add-on software to sync with Macs, the iPhone directly integrates with iTunes, Safari, iCal, and the rest of Mac OS X. The New, New Thing The original Macintosh changed the world by relying on a mouse to move a cursor around a graphical computer interface. The iPhone does it one bet- ter: When you slide your finger across the iPhone's screen, the photo, Web page, or e-mail message, or whatever else that screen is displaying, moves along with your touch, as if you were moving an actual, physical object. The iPhone has no cursor because your fin- ger is the pointer. There's no telling whether the iPhone's touch-screen interface will find its way into other products. | wouldn't expect Mac OS X 10.6 to throw out 25 years of interface development. But the iPhone is so innovative that | find it hard to believe it'll have no spin- offs. It’s entirely possible that Apple's innovations in the world of small devices will end up leading to related innovations on the Mac side. Early reviewers were shocked— shocked!—to find that the iPhone had flaws. 1 also wouldn't be surprised to see more devices powered by OS X that aren't Macs as we know them today. It's easy to imagine, for example, a laptop that's more full-featured than an iPhone (offering a bigger screen and a real key- board, say) but still much smaller than a MacBook. The iPhone and (to a lesser extent) the Apple TV have shown that OS X can be crammed into tiny boxes. That could mean tinier Macs. In any event, as a magazine focused on everything Apple—not just the Mac butalso the iPod, the Apple TV, and now the iPhone—Macworld will continue to keep you up-to-date on everything the company does. Even if you're not inter- ested in owning an iPhone, the product is important enough to the Mac’s future that you should keep tabs on it. (Our new iPhone Central blog—iphone.macworld com—is a good place to do so.) The Backlash Begins In the weeks leading up to the iPhone's launch, I frequently read that Apple was “overhyping” the phone. In fact, I think that Apple was pretty restrained. FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK [BYarcensatal After announcing the iPhone back in January, the company let the hype- storm build naturally. Trust me, if com- panies could simply buy the kind of attention the iPhone received before its release, they would. The iPhone attract- ed that attention on its own. However, anytime expectations run bound to be a backlash. se, it began within a Early reviewers so high, there's In the iPhone's few days of the rel were shocked—shocked!—to find that the iPhone had flaws. And such reviews have continued in the weeks since. You'll find my review of the iPhone at the end of this issue's iPhone story (“Meet the iPhone,” page 58). No, | don't think the device is perfect. While the iPhone is a revolutionary product with huge potential 1.0” product with plenty of weaknesses and missing features Writing a review like this makes me sympathize with movie critics who bridle at awarding a star rating to a movie. As useful as those stars (or in our case, mice) are to readers, trying to reduce your judgment about a film (or a complex product) to a number is in many ways futile. How am | supposed to reduce a product like the iPhone to a number between one and five? In the end, we settled on a rating that honors the iPhone as a remarkable new product with some room for growth and improvement. We're counting on seeing plenty of such growth and improvement. Apple expects to continuously add features to the iPhone through software updates. (And | don’t doubt that updated hard- ware is already in the pipeline.) My bet is that the iPhones being bought today will be much improved just six months from now; the burden is on Apple to make it happen. @ s also a “version Gotacomment about the iPhone? Senditto iphone@macworld.com. 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Plus: spam, green computing, and cleaning your laptop Smiles for Service Your article “State of the Mac” (June 2007) confirms my experi- ence with the excellent service you can get from Apple and its author- ized service providers. | was in Aus- tralia with my 17-inch PowerBook (bought, with AppleCare, in the United States) when its screen started having problems. | took it to an authorized Apple reseller in Brisbane; two days later, my beloved Mac was back with a new screen. | can only imagine what would have happened if I'd had a Win- dows box in the same situation. [™ John Uytendaal There is a disconnect between your respondents’ satisfaction with their Macs and the failure rates they report. Over 40 percent of Macs in the survey had problems with circuit boards, memory, or fans, and almost as many EADER POLL Did the Apple options- backdating scandal change your opinion of Apple products? 16 Macworld September 2007 had hard-drive problems, with some models topping 50 percent in those cat- egories. Displays also had high failure rates, So it's baffling that over 85 per- cent of owners would rate that reliabil- ity a 9 or 10 (out of 10). Failure rates like that in the automotive industry would lead to immediate mandatory recalls. [™ Jason Dougherty Those component failure rates are a per- centage of all Macs that had problems. Elsewhere in the article, we noted that roughly a quarter of all Macs in the survey had problems of some sort. So roughly 40 percent of roughly 25 percent had prob- lems with circuit boards, memory, or fans.—Dan Miller One area you neglected to touch on in your report on Mac reliability: What happens after AppleCare expires? My Gs is only a few months beyond the expiration date of its three-year Apple- Care coverage, but it has developed a defect on its logic board (for the second time). It would cost more than $1,000 to repair it. | think a computer should last more than three years and a few months. And if a problem occurs when it's out of warranty, repairing it should not cost as much as buying a new one. ™ Jim Hartel I was surprised by one comment in your report on Mac reliability and serv- ice. Fred Morris, one of the people you interviewed, had received an appar- ently bum iMac; he said, “Apple didn’t have to replace my iMac. They cer- tainly weren't obligated to give me a better model than I returned.” I'm sorry but, yes, they were! Before Mor- ris received that new computer, he had to make two trips to the Apple Store, then send his computer back to Apple, and then wait for a new one to arrive. How long was he with- out a fully functioning machine? In my opinion, what Apple did was just. I don't think Morris should feel as though the company did him a big favor. He and Apple entered into a con- tract. He agreed to pay a thousand-plus dollars, and Apple agreed to provide a quality computing machine. Apple failed to uphold its part of the bargain. Replacing the original with one that worked was only fair; the “upgrade” was payment for his inconvenience. © Jon Barresi AGreener Apple Michael Gowan's “Eight Ways to Go Green” (Working Mac, June 2007) was an excellent article, but it had one seri- ous problem: The units of energy consumption cited in the article are incorrect. Watts measure the rate of energy consumption. So the phrases “you can save about 40 watts of electric- ity per day” and “you're losing an aver- age of two watts per hour” make no sense. The article has a lot of useful information (I'd always wondered how much power was saved in sleep mode), but in its present form it’s confusing. © Evan Romer OVERHEARD ON THE FORUMS | want an iPhone without the Phone... the ultimate iPod that is [also] a full func- tioning small computer. MacPCJustCreate macworkd.com/2613 Apple’s biggest competitor is, ironically enough, itself. .. Microsoft has managed to set its own bar so low, it’s associated its brand with crap ...Apple, onthe other hand, has set its own bar to some iconic legendary status. Samrod Shenassa macworld.com/286: You are right. | tried to make the num- bers easy to understand, but! tripped over my good intentions. | should have used watts, not watts per hour. And when I calculated the money saved by shutting off a Mac, compared with letting it sleep, should have used watt-hours. Thanks for pointing this out. (For acorrected version of this story, see macworld.com/ 2888.)—Michael Gowan “8 Ways to Go Green” focused mainly on ways to reduce your power con- sumption. That's good, but it another, more serious problem: Manu- ignores facturing electronics is an environ- mentally dirty business that consumes gigantic amounts of energy and potable water. Greenpeace recently ranked Apple as the least green of 14 major electronics manufacturers, for its use of toxic chemicals and its fail- ure to set a timetable for phasing out the use of those chemicals. Of course, Apple has vigorously denied Green- peace’s charges, and many consumers also discount them. But whatever the etting the electronics industry to clean up its act is an essential first step in achieving merits of those charges are. truly green computing. ™ Les Simon Greenpeace has recently tempered its criticism of Apple, applauding the com- pany’s new environmental initiatives; read more about it at macworld.com 2889.—Dan Miller 18 Macworld September 2007 Turned Off by the Apple TV With all the hype and hubbub about the Apple TV, it took me ure out what the device actually does. It ittle while to fig- enables you to send digital content from iTunes to your TV, right? That's it? Then I pass. Two things would have to happen to make me care about the Apple TV: First, it needs to be able to stream any video content directly from the Web to my TV. Second, content providers (Apple included) need to solve the HD problem. Maybe the Apple TV w a few years, but for now it’s much ado amount to something in about nothing. ™ Micah Dirksen Spam Fighters Christopher Breen’s review of antispam tools (June 2007) was excellent. Over the years, | have tried both SpamSieve and Spamfire with success. However, | have found a much easier and better solution to the problem of spam: Gmail, the free e-mail client offered by Google. | now filter all of my e-mail through a Gmail account, which catches 99 per- cent of my spam. It's easy to set up: You simply forward mail sent to your normal e-mail address to your Gmail address, and then download your e-mail from Gmail's inbox with whatever POP client you like (or through the Web interface). You can always view the mail that Gmail has filtered as spam. It's simple and free, and it works! ™ Daniel Blackburn It's a shame that your review of anti- spam software didn’t include Spam Arrest, an online service that uses a challenge-response mechanism to filter your mail. | use this service in conjunc- tion with Apple Mail, and it works almost perfectly, filtering out all the junk and only occasionally filtering out valid messages. It’s also smart enough to monitor my outgoing messages: after | send a message to an address, mail from that address is allowed in. The icing on the cake is that the Web interface allows me to check mail, both valid and unveri- fied, when I'm away from my Mac. [™ Rob Bonner One other tip for avoiding spam: Before my vacation last year, | set up an automatic “out of office” response through my ISP. Lo and behold, when I returned, my inbox was inundated with spam—and it kept coming. I'd advise your readers not to do By the way, | bought SpamSieve on je same. your recommendation, and it works great. 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From coast to coast, the covetous and the curious stood in line at Apple Stores and AT&T retail outlets so that they could be among the first to lay their hands on Apple's new iPhone when it went on sale at 6 p.m. local time on Friday, June 29. Line sizes varied from place to place—in Arlington, the line outside »pping center easily the outdoor 20 Macworld September 2007 topped 100 people long before the Apple Store reopened at 6 p.m. (stores closed earlier in the day to prepare for the launch, and they stayed open until midnight). At the Appl Washington Square Mall in Tigard, Oregon, roughly 50 people were in tore in the ne three hours before the iPhone's launch; only five people were waiting at a nearby AT&T Store. were a much-needed accessory for Lawn chairs those waiting in long iPhone lines. Why Waitin Line? What drove the 1 up in front majority of peo ) queue of a store for a device tl >y could he promise of something better than what ey have now. Jason Miller, an environ- gineer from Arlington, Vir- order online? For many, was mental er ginia, was looking to upgrade from his Treo, which he said “does everything about half as well as it should For a lucky few came the fleeting glory of being first in line for the phone. In Arlington, that honor went to Kevin Towson, a police officer from the Wash- ington, D. and lined up for the iPhone at 9 p.m. on area who got off his shift June 28. Towson said that he was look- ing forward to plugging the iPhone in and syncing up his iTunes library, after a night with only two hours of sleep. The first two people in line at the Danbury, Connecticut, Apple Store were 28-year-old Giovanni Scaringi and 2-year-old Oren Krinsky. Scaringi, who is from Orange County, New York, but goes to graduate school in Bridgeport, Connecticut, arrived at the store at around 5 a.m. Friday determined to be the first person in the iPhone line. Krinsky, who arrived about two hours later than Scaringi and still got the number-two spot in line, made a pact with Scaringi to safeguard each other's spot when one of them needed to head out for a bathroom or food break. When asked how many iPhones they'd be purchasing—Apple Stores allowed each person to buy two iPhones, while AT&T stores limited each buyer to one—both Scaringi and Krinsky said that they were getting only one. “I want it for personal use, and | paid a $200 fee to Nextel in order to get out of my contract,” said Scaringi. San Francisco At the San Francisco Apple Store on Stockton Street, mar- keting professional Jerry Taylor was first in line. Taylor, who'd been in line since 10 a.m. Thursday, hoped to show a user, how much better the iPhone is. Other than getting an iPhone before everyone else, the first person in line gets another benefit—he or she also gets a share of media attention. Taylor said that he'd been interviewed more times than he could count. An hour before the Apple Store on Stockton Street opened its doors, about 400 people were lined up, with the line snaking around the store for two-and-a-half blocks. At spot 153, Philippe Bartoszewicz of San Fran- cisco waited his turn. “I've said the reason I'm here is because I'm going on a trip in a few days and want it with me. But really, it’s because I'm obsessed,” he said. “I didn’t realize | was obsessed until people started asking questions about it, and I knew all the answers.” As people amassed in front of the Apple Store, there was a shorter line a stone's throw away, at one of the AT&T stores in downtown San Francisco. Roughly two dozen people were waiting in line late Fri- day afternoon, with 23-year-old photojournalism student Amanda Rybarezyk and 23-year-old J. Martin holding down the first two positions. Neither planned to use the phone they were waiting to buy; both were looking to sell their phones on eBay. “I really do want the phone at some point,” Rybarezyk said. “But I want to wait for updates. Besides, we're college kids, hard up for cash, and it's better than selling blood.” Ryan Overdevest, a 22-year-old stu- dent on a summer internship at an rch firm, was third in line at the AT&T Store. Unlike Rybarcezyk and Martin, Overdevest wasn't plan- ning on selling the iPhone he was there to buy. But he wasn't planning on using it, either. “1 would love to have it for myself, but | can’t afford it,” he said. “I'm here for my boss. He sent me here as soon as | got in.” Overdevest showed up for work at 6 a.m. Friday morning; he was in line 30 minutes later. Back on Stockton Street, the crowd counted down to 6 p.m. and then started to sing Auld Lang Syne. Just “Today, I’ve got three things in my pocket. Tomorrow, Pll have one.” after six, the store let people in, and Apple employees lined either side of the stairs, capping and cheering. New York City At the Apple Store in the SoHo section of New York City, there was a carnival-like atmosphere throughout the afternoon. The mood built to a climax, with a crowd of hun- dreds counting down from five right before 6 p.m. Amid whoops and hollers, movie director Spike Lee was the first to walk into the store, saying he was there for charity. A Brooklyn, New York-based charity called Keep a Child Alive grabbed that first place in line earlier in the week, using its position to publicize its plans to auction an iPhone on eBay and use the money for charity. Actress Whoopi Goldberg was sec- ond in line. When asked what she was doing there, she commented on the media crowding around her, saying, “I don't really know at this point.” When asked whether she was going to buy a phone, she said yes. At the flagship Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, the line of would-be iPhone buyers stretched down Madison Avenue and then went around the block; all told, the line went for about a quarter of a mile, But it wasn't just iPhone shoppers who gathered at the Fifth Avenue store; reporters from NBC, ABC, CNN, and Fox News also were on hand. New York Times (and former Macworld) columnist vid Pogue was going from section to ion in the line, getting people to sing about the iPhone to the tune of popular songs. King of Prussia Roughly 90 min- utes before the iPhone launch, more than 100 people waited in line at the Apple Store in the King of Pru Mall outside Philadelphia. Stephanie Haas of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, was one of the first people in line at 7 a.m. Friday, when mall stores had not even opened yet. “I wanted to guarantee | would get an iPhone today, but I wasn't look- ing to be first in line,” Haas said. Although she’s used a Motorola Razr cell phone in the past, the iPhone will be her first smart phone. “It seems easier to use than other id. phones,” she September 2007 Macworld 21 PRODUCT WATCH Feeding the Frenzy When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in January 2007, he said that Apple hoped to capture 1 percent of the cell phone market, sell- ing 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, How does Apple expect to reach that number? Avi Greengart, principal analyst for mobile devices at Current Analysis, says that Apple is setting very reasonable expectations for what the iPhone will do. “Apple is letting the iPhone sell itself—that shows a high level of confi- dence,” says Greengart. “There are other products on the market that are cool, but the cool and fun.” But at the end of the day, the cool fac- tor goes only so far. What people will expect is a phone that can handle all the calls, e-mails, SMS messaging, and Web surfing that they do during the course of a typical day. “Is this device going to be the work- horse that people expect?” asks Mark Donovan, senior analyst at M:Metrics, a mobile-industry research firm. “The iPhone is one of the biggest technical challenges the company has ever faced.” But he adds, “I have a hard time believing Jobs would state a number he aren't fun. The iPhone is wouldn't blow through.” Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director at JupiterResearch, agrees. “Meeting the 10 million would be huge,” he says. “If they are firing on HARDWARE Ci70 Wireless Desktop Set, from Kensington (us kensington.com): Wireless multimedia key- board and mouse set features a foldable keyboard with a built-in mouse-docking station ($80). 22 Macworld September 2007 all cylinders, that may be a very low number.” And so far, he says, “Apple has really met expectations and delivered the product they promised to deliver.” SomeHiccups Using an iPhone requires activating it with AT&T through Apple's iTunes application. Although that process went smoothly for many people who bought the iPhone as soon as it went on sale, others weren't so lucky. Some people encoun- tered problems with the activation process, leaving them without a phone number for longer than expected. But Gartenberg sees this as inevitable with such a high-volume rollout. “This is a new process, but most of it was [because] you had 500,000 people trying to activate their iPhones over one week- end,” he says. “There is a certain frustra- tion when you spend $600 for a device and want [to] use it right away, but it’s not going to happen all the time.” The features that the iPhone lacks con- stitute another potential roadblock on the way to Jobs's goal of 10 million. Apple can add some features with software updates; other shortcomings may have to wait for the next version of the iPhone. However, Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for consumer technol- ogy at The NPD Group, doesn't see that as a huge deal. “Some things like 3G seem like a natural to add,” he says, “but all told, out of the gate it can still do a lot of things that many other devices on the market cannot.” © Chris Barylick reported from Arlington, Virginia. Mathew Honanreported from San Francisco. Rob Griffiths reported from Tigard, Oregon. Jeffery Battersby reported from Danbury, Connecticut, Aaron Freedman reported from New York. Kate Marshall reported from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Montalbano and Ben Ames of IDG News Service andJim Dalrymple contributedto this report. MFC-94400N, from Brother international (ewewbrother-usa.com): Color laser mukifunction printer prints upto 21 pages per minute in mono- chrome or color at up to 2,400 by 600 dpiand scans ‘& upto 1,200 by 2,400 dpi ($700). NEWS IN BRIEF Apple Releases OS X 10.4.10 While we wait for Leopard, Apple has released OS X10.4.10 toaddress outstand- ing problemsin Tiger. Among the changes isa fixfor aproblemin which a Bluetooth head- set would sometimes show up in the Sound preference paneasan avail- able device forsound outputafterit had been removed from Bluetooth preferences. 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Parallels showed off the product on an Xserve running SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Solaris 10, and FreeBSD 5 virtual machines. One of the questions that came up during the DIALOG BOX demo was why it didn't show Mac OS X Server running as a virtual machine. “Would it be technically possible? Yes,” says Rudolph. “Will Apple permit it right now? No. Apple has been a great partner to us, and we don't want to jeopardize t trela- tionship. We are not going to take that good will and immediately turn around and spit in their eye.” The Parallels team said that the virtual machines running on that Xserve would respect things such as Directory Ser- vices and Groups set up in Mac OS X, making it easier for IT managers to configure multiple operating systems. Parallels is also going to release a soft- ware development kit that will let anyone build server tools for Parallels Server. No release date has been announced. —JIM DALRYMPLE 4 “We are not ina visual “There are points on the spec- eo < teed aby trum between boring and jucing badly dres: tee pacriatTheg GATS edgy. In politics, the guy who interest in mass orline wins isn’t boring or edgy. We or things like that.” are more centrist. Apple is deplingtheimedieeee trying to appeal to the edgy.” . Sibeeing io adecting in Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in an interview visual awareness with SmartMoney magazine “Apple illustrates the importance of designing new products around the needs of the user, not the demands of the technology. 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Making the Cut Apple’s Final Cut Pro 6 offers powerful new tricks By MIKE CURTIS ver the years, Final Cut Pro (FCP) has evolved into a work- horse application that handles everything from basic digital video edit- ing to uncompressed HD video pro- FCP 6.0.1 is an improvement eady powerful, flexible, afford- cessing. onana able, and scalable editing program for a wide range of professional and semi- professional users. FCP 6 is part of Final Cut Studio 2.0.1, and it can no longer be purchased separately from the suite. It serves as a Find It Online Please see our Web site at the addresses bel: Soundtrack Pro 2,and Motion 3 review a Baente Pro 6, pag 34 Macworld September 2007 e° 1.0, page 36 Whee Pro2, hub for the other Studio programs: Motion 3.0.1 (#8 ; page 44), Sound- track Pro 2.0.1 ($988; page 42), Com- pressor 3.0.1 ( ), DVD Studio Pro 4.2, and the new Color 1.0.1 ze 36), At first glance, FCP 6 looks identical to the previous version ($088); look below the surface, you'll find sig- ), but if you nificant new features—such as the Open Format Timeline, the ProRes 422 codec, and the SmoothCam plug-in— that can substantially speed up and v to read longer versions of the Final Cut Pro6, Color 1.0, ) You can read our evaluation of Compressor 3 at lance, but significant changes under the hood speed up your work. The Open enhance your workflow and help you get stuff done. Overall, the Final Cut Studio 2 package offers many more fea- tures and capabilities than previous ver- sions of the suite, Open Format Timeline The most notable new feature in FCP 6 is the Open Format Timeline. You can now mix supported frame sizes, frame rates, and codecs from different sources in a single sequence. FCP automatically handles frame-size and frame-rate con- 42 w Motion 3, p: version in real time. The video quality isn't perfectly smooth, but you can use the suite’s new version of Compressor to improve troublesome shots (though the process may take multiple itera- tions). The Open Format Timeline eliminates the rigid specificity of previ- ous versions, and it saves a lot of time. SmoothCam, the new stabilization plug-in, can stabilize shots, as well as smooth jerky camera motion. But this feature, too, has some rough edges. ProRes 422 Codec Apple's new ProRes codec comes in two flavors: a 10-bit-per-channel, 145- Mbps version called ProRes 422, and a 10-bit-per-channel, 220-Mbps version called ProRes (HQ). There are a num- ber of advantages: FullRaster The codec resolution is the actual size of the format—so the 1,920-by-1,080 format equals 1,920 by 1,080 pixels, instead of 1,440 or 1,280 by 1,080 (as with other video formats). 10-Bit Codec You get up to 1,024 shades of gray and 10 bits of color depth for smoother rendered results of color correction and other image manipulation. High Quality Image quality is well pre- served after you apply effects, and there are few compression artifacts, even after multiple generations of compression. Greater Speed Because the codec’s structure is less complicated than that of other video formats, it's faster at ren- dering color corrections, titles, and cross-dissolves. Low Data Rate This codec’s data rate is relatively low—145 or 220 Mbps— so it will play back nicely from a single hard drive. Suite Integration FCP’s tight integration with the other applications in the suite is a major time-saver. Motion projects update in real time in FCP, and you can synchro- nize audio changes between Sound- track Pro and FCP. Also, you can update Color projects to include changes from FCP. And you can export directly to Compressor without having to first render a separate file. Better Than Ever Apple has also made a slew of improve- ments and fixes to existing features: FCP 6 is better, eas- ier to use, and faster than previous ver- sions. For example, the Media Manager (which manages the conversion of media files to other for- mats) and Cinema Tools (which works with converted film material) have been enhanced, In addi- tion, Easy Setups, which define the kind of video format you're preparing to capture or edit, have been simplified. Surround-sound (5.1 audio) playback support has been added, but the feature requires pricey additional audio gear. Version 6.0.1 supports the increas- ingly popular AVCHD format, but not natively, Therefore, you must transcode to either Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes 422 via the Log And Transfer interface, and that output can take up as much as ten times more space than native AVCHD files. The good news is that once you transcode your video into these formats, editing and rendering are much faster than in native HDV. Reliable Performance FCP 6G feels solid and stable: in several days of testing on five machines, I never had a crash or lockup. My biggest issues were the time it took to install the full nine-DVD, 55GB suite, and the room I had to make on a boot drive on my older G5s (and my laptop) to do so. Apple gets points for including beefy printed documentation for FCP 6, as well as a fully searchable PDF manual. Macworld’s Buying Advice Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 is a solid upgrade fea- turing greater ease of use and enhanced workflow flexibility. For users of previous Improved Flexibility |n Fina! Cut Pro 6, you can work with video atany supported frame size and rate, and the software will automatically handle the rest of the details for you—with real-time playback. OUTSTANDING: $$4$# VERY GOOD: $$$ GOOD: $$ FLAWED: $@ UNACCEPTABLE: $ versions, the decision to upgrade will be a no-brainer, as the new ProRes and Open Format Timeline features alone are worth the price of admission. And when you factor in the new features of the suite's other programs, Final Cut Studio 2.0.1 is an excellent value, For Mac users considering buying the suite for the first time, Final Cut Studio 2's speed, flexibility, price, and capabilities putit ina class by itself, Mike Curtis runs HD for indies (www.hdforindies .com),aconsultancy and Web site focused on HD video production, with an emphasison HD cam- eras and workflow, as wellas postproduction hardware and software. Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 $958: PROS: Flexible Open Format Timeline; new ProRes 422 codec; effective SmoothCam feature; surround-sound support; printed manuals; good price; AVCHD codec support. ‘CONS: Open Format Timeline and ‘SmoothCam have some rough edges; sur- round-sound support requires extrahard- ware; huge, time-consuming installation. OSX COMPATIBILITY: 10.4 (Tiger) PROCESSOR COMPATIBILITY: Universal PRICE: $1,299; upgrade, $499; upgrade from Final CutProor Production Suite, $699 COMPANY: Apple, wwwapple.com September 2007 Macworld 35 GiaWaysy Final cutStudio2 Color 1.0 Apple unleashes Final Cut Studio grading and finishing tool By Gary apcock Controlling Color Shown insingie-displaymode, the Secondaries tab (top center) offers Bézier masking tools and HSL correction sliders for fine-tuning aselec: tion. Below that tab is a preview image with Paradescopes and the 3-D vectorscope. Numeric-input color-selection tools are onthe right side of the screen. olor 1.0.1, a new component introduced in Final Cut Studio 2.0.1, brings professio: correcting and finishing to the suite. Far more powerful than the basic color- correction tools found in the previous color version of Final Cut Pro, Color intro- duces Bézier-based masking and color- selection tools, single and multipoint optical tracking, advanced effects, and creative color-correction capabilities. The program steps you through the grading process, which makes possible everything from a simple gamma cor- rection of dark video to the manipu- lated, desaturated, grainy hues popular in sci-fi and horror movies. Getting Started Color is a highly specialized profes- sional application that requires time and effort to understand and master. Ofall the components in the Final 36 Macworld September 2007 Cut Studio suite, Color has the most stringent hardware requirements. Apple recommends at least a 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad with a 1,680-by- 1,050-pixel or dual-display setup, as well as specific graphics cards for real-time rendering and playback of the larger frame sizes in uncompressed HD and formats (the latter format is 35mm film scanned for use in the DPX format ata resolution of 2,048 by 1,556 pixels) Color users working in standard defini- tion (SD) or compressed HD format can get by with less hardware, but cer- tain graphics cards limit on-screen pre- views to an 8-bit color depth and do not accelerate rendering as much as the recommended ATI X1900XT card does. And note that there is no preview play- back in Desktop Cinema mode or over a FireWire connection. Color lacks the friendly, Apple-style look-and-feel of the rest of Final Cut Studio, But the interface’s neutral gray color minimizes the viewer's color bias; reduces eyestrain during long periods of work; and allows for cleaner, more Color 1. 1 PROS: Send ToColor command simplifies workflow; program usable outside of Final Cut Studio ;can export to uncompressed or ProRes files from compressed originals. 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Getting Around Used as a stand-alone application, Color allows you to import industry- standard EDLs (edit decision lists) from other applications, and XML data f of Final Cut Pro, thereby increasing *s derived from older versions Color’s ability to work with programs outside of the Final Cut Studio 2 suite. Color is very complex, but as you get used to the software, its complexity starts to make sense. The program has eight context-sensitive points of entry called rooms, which are organized as ibs at the top of the screen. Each room allows you to complete discrete color operations. Setup is the first room; it's followed by Primary In, Secondaries, Color FX, Primary Ou Geometry, Still Store, and Render Queue. e Primary In tab shows your project in the timeline just as it was in Final Cut Pro. The HSL (hue, satura- tion, and luminance) slider controls for adjusting shadows, midtones, and high- lights are at the top of the room, while the red, green, blue, and luminance curves controls below let you selectively adjust The Auto Balance button in this room provides a superb the overall image. starting image correction for a wide variety of file types. Color directly incorporates some ttings from Final Cut Pro's Color Corrector 3-Way filters (when there is a single filter on a clip). However, the Color Node Tree inthe Dual display mode, Color maintainsall the moni: toring tools onthe secondary display. Clockwise from top leftare Preview, RGB Parade, RGB Histogram, andthe new 3-D Color Space Scope. 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The Color FX room le special effects and transformations, and tions derived from the tools or isers apply facilitates the use of third-party f (currently, only the Nattress Advanced plug-ins are available). Color ships with adjustable preset effects, m 1¢ Color FX Bin. effects are just starting points for spe- accessible via t These cialty looks. n create In the Geometry room, you c Bézier masks and generate tracking iow t ‘Oa ne mask to travel over time. You can also zoom in on, reposi- tion, and rotate the frame, as and resize images throughot this lets you 0 ut to other resolutions as part of the final render process Performing that final re nder is where you can get sidetracked if you're not the preferred Return To FCP function. By default, projects 1¢ Send To Color command are returned to Final Cut Pro just the same rey were sent. With compressed material, you have the ability to render projects out as high-quality uncom- pressed, in ProRes, or in AJA Video's 10-bit RGB available e only third-party co However, that content wi maintain its original aspect ratio regard- ss of the output codec you choose ine documentation lists Apple's « a number of known issues with this release of Color, including speed changes ne rates from Final Cut Pro, or mixed a recommended limit of 200 edit points for sequences, default Broadcast Safe imits need to be set manually for proper output, lack of support for anamorphic SD content, and a number of performance guidelines. 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Phon Gets You oing | iLUV Move Your abe (aay Final CutStudio2 Soundtrack Pro 2 Improved editing and new features help you sync audio with video By PETER KIRN ound editors and video editors—the humans, not the software— often seem to live in different worlds. The latest version of Apple's Soundtrack Pro (2.0.1), part of Final Cut Stu- dio 2.0.1, continues to bridge the gap between video- and audio-editing workflows. Soundtrack Pro 2 add: es a number of its predeces sor’s primary shortcomings. You can now move automa- tion envelopes with clips, nudge audio by frames, and import and export OMF (Open Media Framework) and AAF (Advanced Author- ing Format) files. Soundtrack Pro finally employs Final Cut Pro's JKL keyboard short- cuts by default. If you know AppleScript, custom Send To and After Export actions can enhance file-import and -export automation, but Soundtrack Pro does not have any new batch-pro- cessing tools or Automator actions. The most promising addition is the Conform feature, which synchronizes changes made to a Final Cut Pro proj- ect with an associated Soundtrack Pro project. Most edits work automatically, without requiring intervention, and the Soundtrack Pro 2.0.1 PROS: Vastlyimproved mukichannel edit- ing and file importand export; Conform fea- ture makes Final Cut integration more elegant; efficient surround panning; improved recording convenient LiftAnd Stamp tool. CONS: Automation requires AppleScript; rigid and sometimes sluggish interface; avail- able onlyas part of the Final Cut Studio suite. OS X COMPATIBILITY: 10.4 (Tiger) PROCESSOR COMPATIBILITY: Universal PRICE: $1,299; upgrade, $499; upgrade from Final Cut Pro or Production Suite, $699 COMPANY: Apple, wwrwapple.com 42 Macworld September 2007 Audio and Video Edits Soundtrack Pro's integrated interface now accommodates a broader set of editing func- tions, Forinstance, from the main window (pictured here), you can use the Conform tab (bottom center) to recon- cile sound edits with video edits, without leaving your multiple-track project (top center). integrated interface lets you see and hear changes immediately. The new Lift And Stamp tool allows you to copy and paste sonic qualities, much as you'd copy and paste format- ting in a word processor. This is ideal when you need to bring consistency to sound recorded via different mikes and in different locations, Also helpful in postproduction is the newly enhanced multiple-take recording, which makes it easier to mix and match pieces of dif- ferent takes quickly while keeping them synced to video. Mixing surround sound in this version isa pleasure, thanks to a new surround- panner interface that provides extensive visual feedback as you work. Apple has also included surround loops and effects to get you started. Subtle limitations of the interface mean that some heavy-duty multiple- track work will likely require another tool. For instance, Soundtrack limits vertical track scaling to four global zoom presets; this can make editing more than three or four tracks clum- sier than it is in a tool like Logic Pro. Audio editors and composers may want some of Soundtrack Pro's unique Final Cut Pro integration, and it’s unfortunate that Apple forces them to buy the entire Final Cut Studio pack- age when they're unlikely to need the other applications. Macworld’s Buying Advice Soundtrack Pro 2.0.1 has essential edit- ing and file-import and -export capabili- ties, as well as invaluable features such as the Lift And Stamp and Conform tools, No other program implements these combined features so elegantly, and Soundtrack Pro 2 is the only pro- gram with this level of Final Cut Pro integration. If Apple irons out some of the interface and performance wrinkles in an update and publishes some Apple- Script tutorials, it will make its Final Cut Studio customers very happy. © Peter Kirn isa mediaartist and educator based in New York. He runsthe online music tech blog and community creat Smart phone. 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Motion’s workflow is built around real-time adjustment and experimentation. With Motion 3.0.1, Apple has focused on the major capabilities that previous ver- sions lacked: motion tracking and sta- bilization; painting tools; and a true 3-D graphic speed and easy, improvisational con- trol. Motion may not become your only ] environment, for more motion-graphics program, but it could easily become your favorite tool for quickly creating visuals. Editing keyframes in Motion is made easier by new Pen and Box tools for modifying animation curves. New motion-tracking, Match Move behav- ior, and stabilization tools help Motion 3 complement your existing Final Cut Pro workflow. These tools can sta- bilize clips or match an animation to the movement of an object in your video, Expanded retiming features pro- vide additiona control over dynamic speed changes, and new Motion Blend and Optical Flow frame compositing and effects. Extensive user-interface feedback helps keep you oriented as you adjust camera views and position objects. As with other areas of the program, Motion allows you to perform these edits in real time, without rendering. Motion is elegant and fast, but it's not the right tool for every job. In almost all aspects of the program, increased complexity can decrease per- formance. You'll need a last Power Mac Gs or an Intel-based machine with a dedicated graphics card and lots of RAM. Motion also doesn’t neration provide some of the sophisticated script- ing and fine-tuned editing found in After Effects, or the high-end composit- ing workflows of tools such as Combus- tion ($898; me com/2945) and Shake ($¢$; macworld.com/o932). Macworld’s Buying Advice Motion 3.0.1, with its el interface, has always been promising. gant, real-time By adding some new dimensions to the visuals Motion can produce, Apple has vastly increased the value of its motion-graphics tool. It’s a comple- Motion 3.0.1 $568: PROS: Motion stabilizationand Match Move features complement Final Cut Pro; makes basic3-D more accessible; gorgeous vector-based paint tools; real-time work- flow makes experimentation easier. CONS: Noimport or export ofvector paths; some processes still toointensive for real- time operation without high-end hardware. OSX COMPATIBILITY: 10.4 (Tiger) PROCESSOR COMPATIBILITY: Universal PRICE: $1,299; upgrade, $499; upgrade from Final Cut Pro or Production Suite, $699 COMPANY: Apple, wwwapplecom ment to Final Cut Pro for video pro- cessing, and it's finally looking like a serious motion-graphics contender in its own right, If you're new to creating motion graphics, Motion makes ¢ wise difficult workflows unusually easy, as long as you have the hardware muscle to handle them. @ Peter Kirnisa mediaartistand educator based inNew York. He runs the online visual tech site createdigitalmotion.com. blending let you smooth out the results. The Paint tool has been transformed into a power- ful vector-based art tool in Motion 3. Brush sty range from organic models that mimic real brush- strokes to gorgeous light and particle effects. You can draw right into your project hough com- plex brush styles and com- positions can be system- intensive. Combined with behaviors, the Paint tool excels at painting effects y, though the lack of quic vector-path import and roto- scoping tools means it won't replace other tools. A major addition to Motion 3 is support for 3-D 44 Macworld September 2007 Paint Tools Motion's expanded vector-based painttools can create organic paint effects and slick eye candy, and that art canbe transformed in 3-D space via Motion'snew 3-D tools. Motion gives you mukiple ways of manipulating what’son screen:the timelineand keyframe editor, the heads-up displays, and the Inspector. A FATHER. A CEO. And wherever | go, my music, my family photos and my earnings reports go with me. 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In fact, the most impor- tant refinements in the latest models come not from the new chip set, but from separate advances in graphics pro- cessing and the display. Specifically, these MacBook Pros fea- ture a brand-new Nvidia graphics chip, the GeForce 8600M GT, in place of the aging ATI Mobility Radeon XiG00. In the entry-level MacBook Pro, the chip comes with 128MB of dedicated graphics mem- ory; the other two models have 256MB. In the display arena, the 15-inch MacBook Pros are the industry's first notebooks with screens backlit by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) rather Macworld Lab Test Speedmark 4.5 Test Results 15-inch MacBook Pro fore 2 Duo/2.2GHz 220 15-inch MacBook Pro ore 2 Duo/2.4GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro ore 2 Duo/2.4GHz Bugnceae «202 17-inch MacBook Pro 2 Duo/2.33GHz 237 Longer is better Referencessytemsarein takcs Speedmark ¢5scoresare ‘elativeto those of a125Getz Mac min, which s asuigned ascore of 100. Al “systems were running Mac 5 10.4.9, wth 2GBof RAM and with proces 80+ performances toHighest inthe Energy Saver preference pane when applicable. Mac Wom. LAB TESTING BY AAMAS CAS RAIT HH ANE BALAN CH For complete benchmark test results, please visit macworld.cony 2907 46 Macworld September 2007 than fluorescent bulbs. LEDs offer several clear advantages: they require less power; they reach full brightness instantly; they should maintain their brightness throughout the life of the notebook; and they don’t contain mer- cury gas, a known neurotoxin that could escape into the environment when the notebook is disposed of. Because 17-inch screens with LED backlighting aren't yet available, the flagship MacBook Pro still has tradi- tional backlighting. For an extra $100, however, you can now order the 17-inch model with a resolution of 1,920 by 1,200 pixels, instead of the standard 1,680 by 1,050 pixels. If you're working with HD video, you'll appreciate the higher resolution. As usual, new models bring faster processors, though in this case the dif- ferences are slight: one of the 15-inch models runs at 2.2GHz, compared with 2.6GHz in the previous generation; the other two models’ processors oper- ate at 2.4GHz, up from 2.33GHz. More important is the extra memory capacity of the new machines. The pop- ular $1,999 model, which previously came with 1GB of RAM, now comes with 2GB, just like its siblings. And while the last-generation MacBook Pros could handle up to 3GB, the maximum has now increased to 4GB. The middle model in the lineup now has a 160GB hard drive, up from 120GB in the previous generation, but the $1,999 and $2,799 models have the same capacities as before: 120GB and 160GB, respectively. In all three units, the SuperDrive is up from 6x to 8x. And all three models now come with 802.1n wireless networking enabled out of the box. Macworld’s Buying Advice If you have a recent MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, there’s probably no com- pelling reason to trade up. But if you're still using a PowerBook or a Core Duo-based MacBook Pro, you'll get a dramatic performance boost from the latest models, Between the two 15-inch models, the $1,999 model is now a much better bargain—in my book, the differences don't justify a $500 premium. @ Henry Norris aveteran Mactechnology writer based in Berkeley, California. 15- and 17-Inch MacBook Pros $965: PROS: Classic design; excellent overall performance; much improved graphics per- formance; 2GB of RAM, expandable to 4GB; 15-inch models offers bright, environmen- tally friendly screen; 17-inch model offers very highscreen-resolution option. ‘CONS: Some software needs tuning fornew graphics chip; no PCMCIAslotor eSATA port. PRICE: 15-inch 2.2GHz, $1,999; 15-inch 2.4GHz, $2,499; 17-inch 2.4GHz, $2,799 COMPANY: Apple, wwwapple.com OGRAPH BYPETERBELANGER GRIFFIN Elan’ Holster — Streamline Elan Sleeve Elan Snap-in Carry your iPhone the way you want... iPhone” Cases Amplifi” tabtetop jukebox iTrip Auto Son iredonyour Buy now at www.griffintechnology.com macworld.com/reviews What we’re reviewing online this month SOFTWARE Coda1.o 4 RATING: $98) PRICcE:S99 COMPANY: Panic URL: Wwwepanic.com If you're a Mac-based Web developer, you probably have a regular set of working tools: a text editor, an FTP client, a CSS editor, a Web browser, and the Apple Terminal window. And given that you have a limited amount of screen real estate, you're no doubt constantly switching between them. Panic's goal is to replace all of those tools with its beautifully designed new program, Coda 1.0.3. But Coda does have limitations, and each of its tools could use improvement. If you don't own any Web development programs yet and are looking to start hand- coding Web sites, Coda is a good first step. Otherwise, wait for version 1.5 or 2.0 before you toss out familiar pro- grams (macworld.com/2919). GarageSale 3.2 RATING: $899 PRICE: $30 COMPANY: iwascoding rt: wvw.iwascodingcom GarageSale 3.2.1 is a program for listing auctions on eBay. It replaces eBay's FIND IT ONLINE For expand- edreviews, type the blue URL at the end of each summary into your browser's address window. 48 Macworld September 2007 multipage, Web-based process with a familiar, Apple-inspired interface. Its strength lies in its power to customize almost every facet of an auction. The amount of control users have over the g process will appeal to experienced eBay sellers, but the inter- face will take veteran and occasional sellers alike some time to learn—and auction-lis they may even need to consult the man- ual (macworld.com 2920). <_ © Live Interior 3D 1.2 4 RATING: $99! PRICE:$SO ComPaANy: Bel ight Software urt:www.belightsoft.com Live Interior 3D 1.2 is an interior- design program aimed at consumers who want to refurnish or remodel a room, an office, a kitchen, or another interior space, Unfortunately, it lim- its you to very basic room shapes and designs. If all you need to do is rearrange furniture—and if you're content with using representations of furniture you can find in the provided library or online—you'll be satisfied. But the program is lacking in its ability to accurately design a kitchen with images of actual cabinets and fixtures that you can find at your local home store. This relatively new program has a great deal of potential, though, and we look forward to its next major update (macworld.com/2921). Parallels Desktop 3.0 RATING: $898 PRICE: $80; upgrade, $50 COMPANY: Parallels URL: www parallelscom We first reviewed Parallels Desktop about a year ago. While its core functionality hasn't changed much, this first paid upgrade has over 50 new or enhanced features, and improved (albeit still lim- ited) support for 3-D graphics. These additions make this version an even better alternative to Boot Camp. Unless you need support for full 3-D graphics or for esoteric hardware, Parallels will probably work for you, It's currently the best way to run Windows, Linux, and many other operating systems alongside OS X (macworld.com/2930). Tasty Planet 4 RATING: 869% PRICE:S20 COMPANY: PlayFirst wat: ww playfirst.com In Tasty Planet, you are a sentient gray glob of experimental bathroom cleaner run amok, You've been created to chomp up germs and bacteria, but you have a voracious—nay, insatiable—appetite, and the more you eat, the larger you get. There are 60 progressive levels in all; you start out eating organisms like para- mecia and small insects, and eventually you're rolling down the street while eat- ing cars and anything else that gets in your way. The game has a fun, cartoony style and a peppy, loungelike soundtrack that’s sure to appeal to people with a lighthearted sense of humor (macworld com/293)). +) weertals 50 Macworld September 2007 Vita" macworld.com/reviews HARDWARE Aficio CL3500N RATING: $996) PRICE:S799 CompaNy:Ricoh URL: www,ricoh.com The Ricoh Aficio CL3500N is a color laser printer designed for small offices and workgroups. Offering built-in networking capability, fast print speeds, and a 530-sheet paper tray, this well-built machine can help make your work environment more productive. It also supports Adobe PostScript 3. And in case that's not enough, Ricoh offers a variety of additional-cost customization options: you can soup up this printer w