Industry Standard Tools
Software
Every day students and pros use Apple software to express their creative visions in new ways. Apple’s professional software product line has tools for video production, photography, podcasting, and music creation.
Final Cut Studio
Final Cut Studio is the editing suite of choice in the film, video, and broadcast industries. Its all-in-one package consists of integrated, high-performance applications for film and video editing, motion graphics, sound design, color grading, producing DVDs, and encoding to various file formats. Learn more
Aperture
Aperture is the first all-in-one photography post-production tool that provides everything students need after the shoot. Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture lets students and educators import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. Learn more
Logic Studio
Logic Studio, a comprehensive suite for music creation, performance, and editing, turns the Mac into a professional audio workstation for recording and supporting audio at 16- and 24-bit resolutions. It includes the largest set of instrument plug-ins available in a single box, 80 effect plug-ins, a huge studio sound library, and tools for scoring, performing, and sound design. Learn more
Shake
Shake is an advanced digital compositing tool that gives students the highest quality output for film and HD. Preferred by Academy Award-winning artists, Shake lets students create convincing, photorealistic, Hollywood-caliber visual effects. Learn more
Final Cut Server
Final Cut Server is Apple’s powerful new media asset management and workflow automation software. Final Cut Server takes the headache out of managing large collections of media files, then extends to tracking job status, managing reviews and approvals, and automating complex sequences of tasks — all with Apple’s legendary ease of use, and all in a single product designed to work seamlessly with Final Cut Studio. Learn more
Xsan
Xsan is Apple’s enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) solution that lets multiple computers concurrently access terabytes — even petabytes — of storage on Xserve RAID over high-speed Fibre Channel. Learn more
