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and efficiency. Shake 3 also includes new visual effects features available to Mac OS X, Linux and IRIX customers including motion-tracking
and real-time broadcast preview.
The Company acquired Emagic, a leading provider of professional software and hardware solutions for computer based music production,
during the fourth quarter of 2002. Emagic's most popular product, Logic®,
is actively used by musicians around the world and by professionals
in music production, film scoring, and post-production facilities. It combines composition, notation and audio production facilities in one
comprehensive product. Logic Platinum offers a comprehensive set of music creation tools featuring rock-solid MIDI timing and
synchronization, mixing and automation with total recall, and non-destructive real-time editing of both audio and MIDI. It also offers MIDI
timing with 960 PPQN and sends and receives synchronized MIDI clock, MTC, MMC and word clock signals, making it ideal for film, TV and
video post-production facilities.
DVD Studio Pro ® 2 was announced in April 2003 and released in August 2003. It is a completely new DVD authoring product, rebuilt from
the ground up with a new user interface, professionally designed and fully customizable templates, an innovative new menu editor, timeline-
based track editing and a new software-based MPEG-2 encoder.
Consumer, Education and Business Oriented Application Software
Introduced in January 2003, iLife™ is the Company's integrated suite of digital lifestyle applications that features the Company's iTunes®,
iPhoto™, iMovie™ ® , and iDVD™ software applications. These applications are integrated to allow users easy access to their digital music,
photos and movies from within each application. All of these iLife applications come preinstalled on the Company's Macintosh systems, except
for iDVD, which is only available on Macintosh systems configured with a SuperDrive.
iTunes® is a digital music management application that lets users create and manage their own digital music library. iTunes organizes music
using searching, browsing and playlist features. It supports both audio and MP3 CD burning, features a graphic equalizer and cross fading
between songs, and supports automatic synchronization with the music stored on an iPod. In July 2002, the Company introduced iTunes 3,
featuring Smart Playlists, which automatically and dynamically updates playlists based on simple rules set by the user, and Sound Check for
consistent volume playback. In April 2003, the Company launched iTunes 4, which integrated the Company's iTunes Music Store. Further
discussion on the iTunes Music Store may be found below under the heading "Internet Software, Integration, and Services." In October 2003,
the Company launched iTunes for Windows, the first version of the Company's digital music management software for users of Windows-
based personal computers. iTunes for Windows includes all of the same features as the Macintosh version, including MP3 and AAC encoding
from audio CDs, Smart Playlists, free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, burn content to
DVDs to back-up an entire music collection and share music between networked computers via Rendezvous™, the Company's zero
configuration networking technology.
iMovie®, the Company's easy-to-
use consumer digital video editing software for creation of home and classroom movies, features an enhanced
user interface, improved audio editing capabilities, enhanced controls for titling and transitions, and added special effects.
iDVD™ is consumer oriented software that makes it easy to turn iMovie files, QuickTime files and digital pictures into DVDs that can be
played on most consumer DVD players. iDVD simplifies DVD authoring by including professionally designed themes and drag-and-drop
simplicity.
iPhoto™ is consumer oriented digital photo software that makes it easy to import, edit, save, share, and print digital photos, as well as organize
and manage an entire digital photo collection containing thousands of photos. Users are able to view their photos in full-screen; use the slide
show feature accompanied by their favorite music; automatically create custom web pages of their photos; email photos to friends and family;
order professionally-processed prints and enlargements online; or easily design and order custom-
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printed, linen-covered hard bound photo books online. Prints, enlargements, and hardbound book production are currently only available to
U.S. and Canadian customers.
The Company's iChat AV software application and the iSight digital video camera together enable high-quality audio and video conferences
between two Macintosh systems over broadband connections. iChat AV also enables audio conferences over dial-up connections to the
Internet. iChat AV requires no setup or configuration beyond installing the software and plugging in a FireWire video camera and microphone,
such as iSight or certain third-party FireWire based cameras with microphones.
Final Cut® Express, introduced in January 2003, is based on Apple's award-winning Final Cut Pro software. Final Cut Express enables small
business users, educators, students and advanced hobbyists to perform professional-quality digital video editing. Final Cut Express includes
key features used by video editors such as the same interface and workflow as Final Cut Pro, powerful video editing tools, hundreds of special
effects, and easy delivery of output to DVD, the Internet, or tape.
Keynote
™
is the Company's presentation software introduced in January 2003 that gives users the ability to create high
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quality presentations.