The blab from NAB

A handful of product announcements from the NAB media event in Las Vegas today:

DVD Studio Pro 3: the latest version of Apple’s professional DVD authoring application for modern DVD design and authoring.

Shake 3.5: featuring new shape-based morphing and warping tools for advanced compositing and new “shape shifting” special effects.

Final Cut Pro HD: editing software now with the real-time performance of high-quality native DVCPRO HD in addition to real-time support for DV and SD. Capture, edit and output broadcast-quality high definition (HD) video over a single FireWire® cable, without requiring any additional hardware.

Motion: a brand new motion graphics application  aimed at Adobe After Effect’s market. At a price of $299, Motion features interactive animation of text, graphics and video, with instant previewing of multiple filters and particle effects, and introduces “Behaviors” that allow artists to add natural looking movement to type and graphics, such as gravity and wind, without the use of complex keyframes.

Xsan: enterprise-class storage networking that lets multiple computers concurrently access terabytes of storage on Xserve RAID over high-speed Fibre Channel, available later this fall for $999.