QuickTime News: May 5--Music, Movies, Technology News and More

.................. QuickTime News May 5, 2006 Volume 8, Issue 9 ..................

In This Issue .............

1. The Story Behind the Stories 2. Tracks to Watch 3. QuickTime Showcase 4. Movie Trailers 5. iTunes Corner 6. Get Creative 7. The Buzz on H.264 8. Hot Tips

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1. The Story Behind the Stories ................................

Discover how the BBC leverages Final Cut Studio to concentrate on creativity. See how creative collective coreaudiovisual redefines artistry in advertising through Final Cut Studio. Hear how award-winning director and filmmaker Miranda July let her story steer production of "Me and You and Everyone We Know" using Final Cut Studio. Find out how director David Fincher drives his digital workflow with Final Cut Studio.

Watch these stories and more. And learn more about Final Cut Studio real-time video and audio production suite, featuring Final Cut Pro 5, Motion 2, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Compressor 2.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/profiles/?profiles/apple_nab06_reel01_h640 http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

2. Tracks to Watch ...................

The Chicks are back. Preview the new Dixie Chicks' long-awaited, pre-release single, "Not Ready to Make Nice." Download the single at the iTunes Music Store and receive a special digital booklet.

You can also pre-order the Chicks' new album, "Taking the Long Way," set for release on May 23, to receive an exclusive video interview and digital booklet, as well as the bonus track "Live Wire."

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=146971116&s=143441 http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=151592247&s=143441

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Will Young's new video, "Who I Am," is a nostalgic take on the British kids TV show of sticky back plastic and "look what I made earlier." Take a trip down memory lane as Young enjoys a foray into the retro world of Blue Peter.

If you'd like to hear some earlier work from Young, visit the iTunes Music Store.

http://www.video-c.co.uk/micrositelaunchnew.asp?vidref=will015 http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=13699428

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Check out the special video site for Feeder's upcoming best of album, "The Singles," featuring 17 tracks from the band's last five studio albums and three new tracks. Come back every week to see a new video and keep your eyes peeled for "The Singles" in stores May 15.

In the meantime, at the iTunes Music Store, you can download music from earlier Feeder albums.

http://www.video-c.co.uk/artistfeatures/feederthesingles http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=158574

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Phenomenon Nerina Pallot finds herself under attack--in a food fight, that is--at a grocery store in "Everybody's Gone To War." Will she retaliate or surrender? Find out now.

http://www.video-c.co.uk/micrositelaunchnew.asp?vidref=neri002

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Christian Scott, Taylor Eigsti and Erin Boheme have many things in common. Each is young and amazingly talented, equally adept at creating and composing music as they are at performing. Moreover, each has been described as among the brightest jazz stars to emerge on the scene in many years.

22-year old trumpeter Christian delivers smooth, grooved and plugged in tunes that are equal parts jazz and rock. Taylor, just 21-years old, dazzles on the piano keys with a rich rhythmic palette that embraces jazz, hip-hop and pop. And 19-year old singer/songwriter Erin has a magical ability to mix old school swing with modern pop.

Sit back and listen to the next generation of cool as Concord Records presents "The New Wave Of Jazz."

http://www.ontargetmediagroup.com/concord/qt/index.html http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=132683507 http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=132683560 http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=104009271

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On his past few outings, organist Joey DeFrancesco has revealed continued growth and maturity as a player, composer, arranger and producer. With "Organic Vibes" he takes another big step in that lifelong process of evolving as an artist.

Preview the new album on which DeFrancesco swings the B3 with vibes legend Bobby Hutcherson. Visit the iTunes Music Store to hear earlier work from Joey DeFrancesco.

http://www.joeydefrancesco.com http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=124091

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Sing-Sing's intriguing and addicting new release, "Sing-Sing and I," draws on many diverse influences such as alt-folk, '60s girl groups and avant-pop. Listen to the entire album, which you can download at the iTunes Music Store.

http://www.sing-sing.co.uk/ss-and-i/ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=72309885

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24-year-old actress Laura Michelle Kelly is on the threshold of an exciting new phase in her career. Enjoy the video for her beautiful single "There Was a Time" from her recently-released debut album, "The Storm Inside."

http://www.video-c.co.uk/micrositelaunchnew.asp?vidref=lara001

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Enjoy mesmerizing music from Sol Seppy--part Mazzy Star, part Cocteau Twins. Watch her dream-like videos "Slo Fuzz" and "Wonderland." At the iTunes Music Store, you can download these songs and preview more tracks from "Bells of 1 2."

http://www.video-c.co.uk/micrositelaunchnew.asp?vidref=sols001 http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=118630813

3. QuickTime Showcase ......................

Emmy-winner Helen Mirren and Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons star in "Elizabeth I," a two-part HBO Films miniseries that explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I (Mirren) in the latter half of her reign. The series offers a personal look at her allies, her enemies and her suitors as she struggled to survive in a male-dominated world.

Part 1 explores the middle-aged Elizabeth's tempestuous relationship with the Earl of Leicester (Irons) as it survives a French suitor, war, treason and illness. Part 2 follows Elizabeth through her later years, during which she had an equally passionate affair with the young, ambitious Earl of Essex (Hugh Dancy), who had been raised, ironically, by his stepfather Leicester.

Don't miss exclusive behind-the-scenes content on HBO's website: "The Two Worlds of Elizabeth I" takes you behind the scenes of this HBO miniseries event and lets you discover through images, video and audio commentary the intimate private side of England's most enigmatic Queen.

http://www.hbo.com/films/elizabeth/index.html

4. Movie Trailers ..................

When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship Poseidon in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores captain's (Andre Braugher) orders to wait below for possible rescue.

"Poseidon" opens in theaters May 12.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/poseidon/

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A young man named Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls. Roy and two other middle-schoolers take on greedy land developers, corrupt politicians and clueless cops in the mystery adventure based on Carl Hiaasen's Newbery Honor-winning book.

You can catch "Hoot" in theaters today.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/hoot/

5. iTunes Corner ..................

Get the Cinco de Mayo party started today with "Cinco de Mayo" iTunes Essentials, featuring a wide range of tunes, new and old. Sombrero optional. For the day after, you'll definitely need to be prepared with "Latin Chill Out" iTunes Essentials, though.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMix?id=151500407&s=143441 http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMix?id=151510036&s=143441

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There's still a few days left to pre-order Red Hot Chili Peppers' new double album, "Stadium Arcadium," before it's released on May 9. Why pre-order? First of all, you'll receive the "Dani California" single immediately. And when the album is available on May 9, you'll get a bonus video about the making of the "Dani California" music video, audio commentary from the band, a digital booklet and the full album, of course.

There's more... Pre-ordering gets you access to a ticket pre-sale from Ticketmaster.com for the group's upcoming tour, four days before tickets go on sale to the public. Tour dates have just been announced--check for your local venue now.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=136933330&s=143441

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Download the iTunes Music Store free Single of the Week--"Steady, As She Goes" by the Raconteurs. Check back every Tuesday for a new free download.

Download iTunes 6 for Mac OS X or Windows. It's free.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=152027810 http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

6. Get Creative ................

Last week, Apple unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro notebook computer featuring a 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo processor and an all-new system architecture that delivers up to five times the performance of the PowerBook G4 and eight times the graphics bandwidth.

Featuring a stunning aluminum enclosure just one inch thin, the power-efficient 17-inch MacBook Pro weighs only 6.8 pounds. It also includes a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing on the go.

For the ultimate mobile workstation, run the Universal version of Final Cut Studio 5.1 on this post-production powerhouse that features the same amount of screen area as a professional desktop system. Using Final Cut Pro, video pros will enjoy 2.5x the HDV rendering and encoding performance on the MacBook Pro compared to the Powerbook G4*.

Learn more about the 17-inch MacBook Pro now.

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

* For detailed information about HD rendering and encoding performance improvements, visit www.apple.com/macbookpro/intelcoreduo.html.

7. The Buzz on H.264 .....................

Part of the Final Cut Studio professional software suite, Compressor 2--Apple's full-featured audio and video compression application--makes digital duplication and content delivery a breeze, giving editors a complete set of tools for generating pristine video for use on the iPod, the Internet, wireless devices and DVD.

Use it on a single workstation or across an entire network of Macs on Xsan for high-performance encoding. Whether you're working in SD or HD, Compressor offers encoding that combines stunning quality, leading-edge codecs and tremendous efficiency. Compressor can output QuickTime files in a variety of formats, frame-rates and sizes using codecs ranging from H.264 and MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, Sorenson and many more.

From broadcast to podcast, Compressor gives you total control of the quality of your video content no matter where it ends up. Take a Quick Tour of Compressor now.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/compressor/ http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/quicktours/?quicktours/delivery/qt_comp_5_over

8. Hot Tips ............

Did you know that you can pause a QuickTime movie by simply pressing the Space bar? Yes, just one tap does the trick. And to resume playing, just press the Space bar again.

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We hope you enjoyed reading this issue of QuickTime News. Look for your next issue on May 19.

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